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Austrian Fortifications (I) Blankenheimerdorf

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Austrian Fortifications (I) Blankenheimerdorf

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    June 24, 2019

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    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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    December 2, 2023

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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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