{"id":2128,"date":"2024-01-25T15:20:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T14:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forte-cultura.com\/?page_id=2128"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:05:23","slug":"large-fortresses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forte-cultura.com\/en\/evolution-des-festungsbaus-von-bastionen-zu-bunkern\/geschichte-des-festungsbaus\/festungsbau-vom-15-19-jahrhundert\/grossfestungen\/","title":{"rendered":"Major fortress system"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A major fortress system is a central fortress with a circular aligned chain of upstream fortifications such as single forts or batteries for the protection of cities and places for arms.
Example cover picture: Silver Mountain fortress system, Srebrna Gora (PL)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Napoleon\u2019s galloping artillery simply avoided many single fortresses and thus made them ineffective. Most of the defenders in their solitary strongholds could not cope with the high mobility and the increased range of his guns. A new generation of fortress construction should counteract this strategy: the major fortress system for the defence of strategic important landscapes and big cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Circularly around the city centre with a distance off up to 5 kilometres, several rings of forts with canon stations and dungeons were built in order to keep the enemy at a distance. Due to the steadily increasing range of canons, some single forts were located 15 kilometres in front of a city centre. They protected important streets, railway lines and areas of settlements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Especially Prussia practiced these major fortress systems in the east against the Russian neighbour whereas Russia fortified the former kingdom Poland in this way against Prussia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fascinating traces of these gigantic facilities are still visible today in many cities in Central Europe and beyond. Poznan, Torun, Krakow or Przemysl (Poland), Ulm, Koblenz, Mainz <\/strong>or Magdeburg (Germany), Komarno\/Komarom<\/strong> on both sides of the Danube (Slovakia\/Hungary), Rome, Genoa (Italy), Kaunas (Lithuania), Antwerp (Belgium) and Paris (France) are all famous examples of this type of fortress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Habsburg monarchy extended the fortress quadrangle Verona \u2013 Peschiera del Garda \u2013 Mantua \u2013 Legnago to one of the biggest regional major fortress systems in Europe in order to maintain the occupied north Italian areas \u2013 today a fairly unknown touristic field of experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forts are often components of large fortification systems. They are largely self-sufficient individual fortresses in their own right, sometimes of considerable size, e.g. Fort Monostor<\/strong> in Komarom (HU) as part of the Komarno\/Komarom (SI\/HU) fortification system on both sides of the Danube.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Gorgast (DE)<\/a><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Kom\u00e1rom (HU)<\/a><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Fortress construction from the 15th to 19th century<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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