Grand Duke Alexander's hill

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Grand Duke Alexander's hill

The ski jump Grand Duke Alexander , heir to the throne also Schanze called, was part of the Prussian fortress Koblenz and belonged to the system Feste Kaiser Alexander .

Nothing has been preserved from the ski jump built in 1831 and razed in 1922 in what is now the Koblenz district of Karthaus .

history

The ski jump was built in 1831 in the south-west of the fortress Kaiser Alexander as a half redoute .

After the abandonment of the Kaiser Alexander system in 1903, the hill initially remained under military administration and was used as a training area for pioneers . After the First World War, the plant, like the other Koblenz fortifications, had to be deconsolidated in accordance with Article 180 of the Versailles Treaty . In the course of this work, all buildings were removed by July 1922, the wall removed and the trenches filled.

In the years 1954/55 the first settlement of the Christian Siedlervereinigung Koblenz eV was built on the remains of today's Schwalbenweg . V. For the most part, the settlers built their single-family houses on the remains of the powder tower "Beatus" themselves, although the underground legacy of the ski jump gave them a lot of trouble. There are no visible remains of the fortress.

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Roman fort and Prussia's strongest fortress to the largest garrison of the German Armed Forces , Koblenz 1978 (note: outdated in many ways, but still the best representation for an overview)
  • Killian, Hans: Building land procurement-A look behind the scenes, in: 30 years of Christliche Siedlervereinigung e. V. Koblenz, ed. from the Christian Settlers Association Koblenz / Rhein e. V., Koblenz [1984]
  • Matthias Kellermann: Koblenz Fortress and Ehrenbreitstein. Deconsolidation 1920-1922 - photographs by Joseph Ring. Koblenz 2018, ISBN 978-3-95638-413-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Weber, The Prussian Fortifications of Koblenz (1815–1834), page 204.
  2. ↑ Killian, Building Land Procurement-A Look Behind the Scenes, no page number.

Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 43.3 "  N , 7 ° 34 ′ 15.8"  E