Fort №2
   Photo: Fort №2

Near Kaliningrad is one of the twelve major defensive ring of forts fortress city of Koenigsberg, named after the Prussian general Paul Bronzarta. №2 Fort was built in the years 1875-1879 to cover the highway Koenigsberg, Tilsit and was part of the belt Fortova "Night feather Koenigsberg." Fort "Bronzart" is located on a hill and is an elongated hexagon (255 to 110 meters), surrounded by a dry moat deeper than five meters from the cut-off at a steep angle edge on top of the slope and enclosed with a two-meter metal bars with pointed tops.

Paul von Bronzart Shelendorf, whose name is a defensive fort of Koenigsberg (Kaliningrad), was a reformer of the Prussian army, the military ministers and generals, the last war with France (1870-71 years).

In 1890 the fort was modernized and the number №2 garrison reached 250 people. Barracks for the soldiers and officers were on the first and second floors of the gorge of the fort and joined by a central screw and inspection gallery stairway. Also on the second floor of the fort "Bronzart" is: dining room, kitchen, laundry, bathrooms, hospital and other outbuildings. Inside a defensive structure located courtyard side goes by earth mounds and sloping ramps for the transportation of weapons. Side inspection gallery (underground corridors from the yard) lead to storage of ammunition. All underground casemates of the fort was equipped with traverses the traveling lifts and elevators for ammunition, defended earth embankment (thickness up to 6 meters) and had a vaulted ceiling (thickness of 1, 5 m) of fired ceramic bricks.

When the assault of Koenigsberg fort has not been subjected to massive fire heavy artillery and today is well preserved. In the 1990s, part of the defensive structure took Growers artillery regiment, a few rooms located PCP. In March 2007, the fort №2 "Bronzart" received the status of an object of cultural significance (regional level), and protected by the state. These days have been a partial recovery and repair of the drainage system of the fort.

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