Rübenacher Schanze

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The Rübenacher Schanze was part of the Prussian fortress Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein and belonged to the system of Feste Kaiser Franz . From the ski jump , which was completed in 1831 in what is now the Koblenz district of Lützel , no remains have been preserved after it was razed in 1922. It is named after the neighboring district of Rübenach .

construction

The wall of the Rübenacher Schanze was shaped like a bezel . The surrounding dry trench was unlined, i. H. the walls of the moat were not bricked. As a reduit , the hill was given a brick block house that was about 26 meters long and 12 meters wide. This was initially used as a peace powder magazine and from 1848 also as a troop accommodation. A well was built in 1850 to supply water, which from 1859 fed a cistern in the Reduit. The structural changes in the following years were limited. In the course of the revision of all fortifications of the Feste Franz system, the ramparts of the hill were traversed around 1867 . The last construction work before the plant was closed was the installation of a lighting niche in the powder magazine in 1884. After the ski jump was abandoned in 1890, the blockhouse was used again as a powder magazine.

history

The Rübenacher Schanze was created in 1831/1832 west of the Bubenheimer Flesche and in the northwest of the Kaiser Franz fortress on the occasion of the French July Revolution of 1830 .

In the following years, during the various reinforcements of the fortress Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein, the facility was repeatedly reinforced by building palisades in the ditch or by wooden log houses, which were then demolished after the alarm condition was lifted. After the work was abandoned in 1890 together with the Feste Franz system, the wall in the top and the right-hand side of the work was leveled and the resulting soil was filled into the trenches. The free space gained in this way was used to build various magazines and sheds, some of which were used by the ammunition establishment (so-called peace laboratory) in the inner courtyard of the Kaiser Franz fortress.

After the First World War , the ski jump had to be softened in accordance with the provisions of Article 180 of the Versailles Treaty . The plan was to blow up the war powder magazine, while the blockhouse of the hill was to be preserved. The blasting work was completed on October 22, 1922. However, the log house had to be demolished a little later, as it had been severely demolished by wood theft.

The property did not become the property of the city of Koblenz until January 1, 1934. Ten years earlier, a sports field had been laid out here, which was to become a bone of contention with the French army. The sports area was the only one that was carried out by four planned pitches (Feste Franz - Feste Alexander - Bubenheimer Flesche - Rübenacher Schanze). The use of the sports field was limited to a few years, however, as a wooden transmission mast for the Koblenz transmitter was erected at this point as early as 1935 after the crew left .

After the Second World War , the American army set up a prisoner-of-war camp here , which was under French custody from July 1945. It was finally disbanded in November 1945 or January 1946.

The transmitter's wooden mast was replaced by a steel structure in 1965, which in turn was removed in 1974. Today there is a Telekom building on the former ski jump , which has housed the Rhineland-Palatinate State Office for Surveying and Geospatial Information since July 2015 . Remnants of the fortress are no longer available.

literature

  • Klaus T. Weber (dissertation): The Prussian fortifications of Koblenz (1815–1834) . (Series: Art and Cultural Studies Research) 2003, ISBN 3-89739-340-9 .
  • Rüdiger Wischemann: The Koblenz Fortress. From the Roman fort and Prussia's strongest fortress to the largest garrison of the German armed forces , Koblenz 1978 (note: outdated in many ways, but still the best representation for an overview).
  • Matthias Kellermann: The entrenchments of the Feste Kaiser Franz system , in: Feste Kaiser Franz. On the history of the fortress and the Feste Franz system in Koblenz-Lützel. Festschrift for the 10th anniversary Feste Kaiser Franz eV, ed. from Feste Kaiser Franz eV, 3rd edition, Koblenz 2012, pp. 75–80, ISBN 978-3-934795-55-6 .
  • Matthias Kellermann: The transmitter Koblenz (1934-1945). From the Rübenacher Schanze to the beginnings of Radio Koblenz . Koblenz 2020, ISBN 978-3-95638-416-5 .

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Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 30 ″  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 5 ″  E