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[14] [27] The fort is now operated as a museum and may be visited by the public. [17] Fort Sasso da Pigna was built during the early part of World War II, becoming operational in 1943, effectively replacing Redoubt Hospiz. The fort consists of an eastern battery overlooking the Leventina valley and a western battery overlooking the Bedretto ...
Königstein Fortress (German: Festung Königstein), the "Saxon Bastille", is a hilltop fortress near Dresden, in Saxon Switzerland, Germany, above the town of Königstein on the left bank of the River Elbe. It is one of the largest hilltop fortifications in Europe and sits atop the table hill of the same name.
The list of fortifications in Switzerland contains fortifications from the 15th century to the end of the Cold War. Older fortresses. In the Middle Ages, towns were ...
Fort Reuenthal is a 20th-century Swiss fortification located in the Aargau canton near the Swiss border with Germany. Built between 1937 and 1939, the fort overlooks the Rhine where it bends around the town of Full-Reuenthal , and was intended to prevent a crossing of the Rhine at the hydroelectric plant at Dogern .
Fort Reuenthal at Swiss-German border. The Border Line defenses of Switzerland were constructed in the late 1930s in response to increasing tensions between Switzerland and its neighbours, chiefly the Axis powers of Germany and Italy. The Border Line was planned to slow or hold an invading force at the border.
When the "modern frontier" was constructed in the late 1960s, an all-weather patrol road (Kolonnenweg, literally "convoy path") was laid down to enable the guards to travel rapidly to any point along the border fence. It consisted of two parallel lines of perforated concrete blocks, each block measuring approximately 0.75 metres (2.5 ft) wide ...
The Swiss National Redoubt, outlined in heavy red. Fortress Saint-Maurice is one of the three main fortification complexes comprising the Swiss National Redoubt.The westernmost of the three, Fortress Saint-Maurice complements Fortress Saint Gotthard and Fortress Sargans to secure the central alpine region of Switzerland against an invading force.
Principal emplacements of Fort de Dailly. Fort de Dailly is one of the largest and most heavily armed forts in Switzerland, and the central position in Fortress Saint-Maurice. [6] The artillery fort is located on the end of the Dailly massif at a higher level than Savatan, with fields of fire to the north, west and south.