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Lech Jagodziński went for a bike ride
November 22, 2024
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Lech Jagodziński went for a bike ride
November 7, 2024
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Lech Jagodziński went for a bike ride
November 7, 2024
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November 7, 2024
The Toruń Fortress Museum is located in the building of the former Chełmno Gate Barracks, which were part of the 19th-century fortress defense system built to strengthen the eastern border of Prussia. Today, the Toruń fortifications are one of the best-preserved complexes of defensive structures in Europe
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Lech Jagodziński went for a bike ride
November 4, 2024
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November 4, 2024
FORT XIII Karol Kniaziewicz (master Winrich von Kniprode). The main artillery fort built of concrete and brick in the years 1882-1885 on a pentagonal plan, in the first phase of building Toruń forts, similarly to Forts II, V, VII, XI and XV. The old type of fortifications is visible in the barkan outline
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Lech Jagodziński went for a bike ride
November 2, 2024
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November 2, 2024
FORT X coastal battery (Batterie Grünthalmühle). An open artillery battery built in 1889-1892 to control the Vistula valley, the railway line to Bydgoszcz and Solec Kujawski. It is an earth battery with six artillery positions for 120 mm guns with a brick ten-chamber bunker for their 80-person crew and
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Lech Jagodziński went for a bike ride
November 1, 2024
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November 3, 2024
FORT I of Jan III Sobieski (Prince Wilhelm I von Preußen) was built in the years 1888-1892 on a quadrangular plan. It is the only armoured fort not only within the fortress, but also in the entire eastern part of the Second Reich. The fort's armament consists of an armoured battery of 4 21 cm H.P.T
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Lech Jagodziński went for a bike ride
October 31, 2024
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November 3, 2024
FORT IV Stanisław Żółkiewski (Graf Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg). An artillery fort built in the years 1878-1884 of brick, on a pentagonal plan, as the main artillery fort of the Biehlers' type, protected the Toruń Mokre and Toruń Północ railway stations. It could survive a six-month siege. It was intended
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Lech Jagodziński went for a bike ride
October 29, 2024
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October 29, 2024
FORT V Karol Chodkiewicz (General Gerhard von Scharnhorst). The main artillery fort was built in the years 1878-1884 from concrete and brick on a pentagonal plan, as part of the northern line of defense of the city and the defense of the railway line to Grudziądz. It is a standard main fort with a barkan
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Lech Jagodziński went for a bike ride
October 29, 2024
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October 29, 2024
FORT II of Stefan Czarniecki (Prince Friedrich von Bülow). The main artillery fort built in the years 1879-1882, as one of the first two forts (the other was Fort XI) in the ring of Toruń forts. It was erected from the side of the then Prussian-Russian border and was to guard the center of Toruń, the
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Lech Jagodziński went for a bike ride
October 28, 2024
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October 29, 2024
FORT VI of Jarema Wiśniowiecki (Prince Richard Wilhelm von Dohn). An infantry fort built in the years 1889-1893 from brick and concrete on a pentagonal plan. It was to be part of the northern line of Toruń's fortifications and defend the exit route to Chełmno. Fire from 6 fortress cannons reached the
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November 7, 2024
Prussian fortified fortress built with money obtained from contributions after the Franco-Prussian War, pursuant to a regulation of the Prussian General Staff (1872). Toruń, as a border city, was included in the group of fortresses planned for expansion. Construction began in 1877, its first stage lasted
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