Fort No. 2 Photo: Fort No. 2

Near Kaliningrad is one of the twelve major FORTS defensive ring of the city-fortress of Koenigsberg, named after the Prussian General Paul Bronsart. Fort No. 2 was built in the years 1875-1879 to cover highway Koenigsberg Tilsit and was part portobago belt "Night feather of Koenigsberg". Fort Bronsart" is located on a hill and is an elongated hexagon (255 110 meters), surrounded by a dry moat with a depth of five meters with cut at a high angle to the edge of the slope and is enclosed on top with a two-meter metal grille with sharp peaks.

Paul Bronsart von Helendorf whose name is on the defensive Fort of königsberg (Kaliningrad), was a reformer of the Prussian army, war Minister and General, past wars with France (1870-71).

In the 1890s, the Fort No. 2 was modernized and the number of the garrison reached 250 people. Barracks for the soldiers and officers were on the ground and first floors gorgeou parts of the Fort and connected by a Central screw and posterns mid-flight ladders. Also on the second floor of the Fort "Bronzart" was: dining room, kitchen, Laundry, bathrooms, hospital and other ancillary areas. Inside defenses is the yard with side exits under earth mounds and sloping ramps for transporting guns. Side posterns (underground corridors from the yard side) lead to the ammunition stores. All the underground casemates of the Fort traverses were equipped with hoist lifts and elevators for ammunition, defended by an earthen embankment with a thickness of up to 6 meters) and had vaulted ceilings with a thickness of 1, 5 m) made of baked ceramic bricks.

During the storming of Koenigsberg Fort had not suffered a massive fire heavy artillery in our days is quite well preserved. In the 1990s, part of the defensive buildings occupied growers artillery regiment, a few areas were located). In March 2007 Fort No. 2 "Bronzart" received the status of an object of cultural value (regional significance) and protected by the state. In our days, there was a partial restoration and repair of the drainage system of the Fort.

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