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Fort 5 - Edegem
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Location: Edegem, Antwerp, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium
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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën
October 16, 2021
Cycling
The fortress is built in fine brick masonry with natural stone decorations on an almost pentagonal plan. After 1906, the main front building and the caponier were reinforced with concrete. …
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August 2, 2021
Cycling
Watch out - there is a fort here!
From 1860 the government built a defensive belt around the city of Antwerp. It consisted of a city wall and eight forts and was state of the art in defense technology for the time. In the meantime the city walls have disappeared and only the fortresses remain.
Even today the fort is a bulwark - for environmental protection. There is an "organic class" that organizes nature-educational events, beehives and sleeping places for bats in summer as well as hibernation opportunities.
From 1860 the government built a defensive belt around the city of Antwerp. It consisted of a city wall and eight forts and was state of the art in defense technology for the time. In the meantime the city walls have disappeared and only the fortresses remain.
Even today the fort is a bulwark - for environmental protection. There is an "organic class" that organizes nature-educational events, beehives and sleeping places for bats in summer as well as hibernation opportunities.
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•🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën
October 4, 2023
Cycling
Fort 5 had to ensure the defense of the Mechelen-Antwerp track. After 1906 it was partly reinforced with concrete.
It is the only fort where people lived during the First World War
were executed. Fort 5, together with Hof Ter Linden, forms one
large green area of almost 90 hectares.
Source: Antwerp Fort Belt - Renewed Brialmont Route
It is the only fort where people lived during the First World War
were executed. Fort 5, together with Hof Ter Linden, forms one
large green area of almost 90 hectares.
Source: Antwerp Fort Belt - Renewed Brialmont Route
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Location: Edegem, Antwerp, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium