The earthwork consists of a semicircular rampart with an upstream trench. Inside are three recesses for the guns with dimensions of about 6x3 m recognizable.
This is a gun position of a southwest-facing battery of at least eight positions staggered in three rows. The positions had been built in 1794 by the Austrians against the advancing troops of Napoleon.

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The so-called “Austrian Redoubt” between Blankenheim and Blankenheimerdorf is a gun emplacement from the time of the First Coalition War between France and the coalition of Austria and Prussia (1792–1797). …

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Location: Blankenheim, Euskirchen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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