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You can see remnants of Bastion VI on the left of the Lubelska Gate when looking townwards. It was built in 1596 by Bernardo
Plan of the Northern part of town from the beginnings of 19th c.. The New Lubelska Gate is already functioning but Bastion VI has not got a Cavalier yet.
Morando and modernized at the end of the 17th century by Jan Michał Link (flank casemates were added, two cannon stands – retrenchments on the curtain walls on both sides of the bastion and an embankment with masonry-faced counterguard). Flank casemates were modernized and extended by Jan Mallet-Malletski after 1809; at the same time an earthen retrenchment in the bastion’s gorge may have been built. Basic modernization works started in 1821. Loop holes were made along the walls, flank casemates were restructured and, finally, in 1827 a huge, masonry, two-storey cavalier was built. After dissolution of the fortress, the walls of the bastion were demolished and only the cavalier with a deformed outline of the earthen platform of the defensive work remained. If you looked west 150 years ago you would see a huge asymmetrical Bastion V, the largest one in the fortress. It was an untypical defensive work with an elongated left face. The deformation was probably caused by the necessity to adjust later fortifications to older fortification elements surrounding Jan Zamoyski’s palace. However, asymmetrical faces of the bastion may have also resulted from the necessity to properly defend the weakest point of the fortress – the Lubelska Gate. In the foreground there were no natural obstacles hindering access to the gate under the enemy’s own artillery cover. Elongation of the left (western) face of the bastion and moving back curtain IV-V provided a possibility of strengthening defence of the foreground by increasing the number of cannons defending the foreground of the fortress gate. After dissolution of the fortress, the walls of the bastion were blown up and a new road leading from the town to Lublin (at present: Piłsudskiego Street) was made through its destroyed right flank; the remains of the bastion were levelled. Nowadays it is impossible to see its outline. That is why on the axis of the former Lublin road a bent, brick wall was built to mark the bent of faces of this most mysterious Zamość bastion.

  • Northern front of the Zamość Fortress on the plan of 1992..

  • Plan of the Northern part of town from the beginnings of 19th c.. The New Lubelska Gate is already functioning but Bastion VI has not got a Cavalier yet..

  • Plan of the fortress expansion of 1807. In front of the front of curtain V-VI – ravelin additionally defended with three other ravelins. What is interesting, the New Lublin Gate was not planne.

  • Final but never realized project of Lunette V-VI of 1825 with a huge brick redoubt inside and numerous blockhouses which defended the roofed road..

  • Drawing which shows projection of shooting gallery of right (looking from interior of town) front of Bastion V with tagged works, performed in 1849..

  • Projection of embankments and elevation of right front of Bastion V of 1849..

  • Left-sided artillery casemate of Bastion VI. Project of modernization of gunpowder-magazine, situated also in the casemate, signed by sub-colonel J. Jodko in October 1818. .

  • Projection of Bastion VI Cavalier – drawing of 1845.

  • Elevation of Bastion VI Cavalier – drawing of 1835.

  • Sectional views of Bastion VI Cavalier – drawing of 1845.

  • Left-sided artillery casemate of Bastion VI. Project of gunpowder-magazine organization, situated also in the casemate, signed by sub-colonel J. Jodko. . Projekt urządzenia prochowni, umieszczonej w też kazamacie, podpisany przez ppłk. J. Jodko.

    Projekt urządzenia prochowni, umieszczonej w też kazamacie, podpisany przez ppłk. J. Jodko.