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rule in the 19th century. It was the main fort in that system, and was among the first elements to be constructed. Detailed plans were approved on 21 February 1829, and the name "Fort Winiary" soon came to be applied, as the fort was situated on a hill where there were two villages called Winiary
164:. The first and third redoubt were the first to be completed, in 1830, and the main réduit was finished in 1832. In 1834 three infantry battalions were garrisoned there. The third and fourth ravelins were finished in 1838 and 1839, completing the fort. 205:
Unlike the bulk of the city's inner fortifications, Fort Winiary was not demolished during the early twentieth century. It served as the German army's last point of resistance in the
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On 10 October 1829 an order was made restricting civilian building in a strip in front of the planned fort. In May and June 1830, the villages of Winiary and the nearby
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After the war, the fort was the site of public executions by hanging. The very last of these was that of the German SS functionary
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cultivation which had once taken place there). The fort would later become popularly known as PoznaƄ's
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farm were evacuated, the inhabitants being moved to an area to the north-west (
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on 23 February 1945. The main redoubt was seriously damaged in the fighting.
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Between 1865 and 1873 work was done to reinforce the fort's powder stores (
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Jacek Biesiadka, Andrzej Gawlak, Szymon Kucharski, Mariusz Wojciechowski:
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Twierdza PoznaƄ. O fortyfikacjach miasta Poznania w XIX i XX wieku
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission: PoznaƄ Old Garrison Cemetery
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In the period 1963-1970 the Fort was developed into the city's
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No. 1 and No. 2). In the early 1890s an artillery laboratory (
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station was added. The fort was further reinforced in 1910.
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to the east). At the eastern and western extremes were
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Central Economic Society for the Grand Duchy of PoznaƄ
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district (there is also an estate there named Bonin).
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Part of the remaining fortifications: Ravelin I
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Index

PoznaƄ Citadel


Festung Posen
PoznaƄ
Prussian
vine
citadel
JeĆŒyce
reduit
redoubts
Ravelin
Bastion
telegraph
Battle of PoznaƄ (1945)
Red Army
Arthur Greiser
Park Cytadela
Historic Monuments
Pomnik historii
National Heritage Board of Poland
ISBN
83-915340-2-2
Commonwealth War Graves Commission: PoznaƄ Old Garrison Cemetery
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PoznaƄ
Administrative division
Dzielnicas

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