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The park you are entering is located on the site of at least 2 fortification works: Bastion IV, its counterguard* and the ravelin*
Reality – the same fragment of fortress on plan of fortress ad hoc expansion in 1854
in front of curtain wall* between Bastions* IV and V. Whereas the outlines of Bastion IV and its counterguard are relatively distinct thanks to their excellent integration into the park system and purposeful recreation, the outline of the great ravelin is hardly visible. Although it is also reflected in the layout of park lanes, it is hard to imagine that the largest masonry redoubt*, i.e. a large defensive work made from stone and earth was to be built in the centre of V-shaped earthen embankments. Whether construction of the redoubt was ever started is a matter of doubt but it did not prevent Jan Paweł Lelewel from painting his evocative artistic vision. One might want to keep that in mind because Zamość ravelins in the northern part of the fortress in the form of the so-called lunettes* were prototypes of later forts. They only needed to protrude farther into the foreground and have a larger defensive independence to be called precisely that. However, forts belonged to the next epoch in the development of fortifications.

  • Ambitious intentions – huge lunette between Bastions IV and V – with the biggest one in Zamość, brick interior redoubt according to fortress plan from 1847. .

  • Reality – the same fragment of fortress on plan of fortress ad hoc expansion in 1854. Lunette solved only in the form of ground two-ravelin – there is no trace of great redoubt. One draws attention excessively developed obstacle greenery on the glacis of the counterguard of Bastion VI.

    Lunette solved only in the form of ground two-ravelin – there is no trace of great redoubt. One draws attention excessively developed obstacle greenery on the glacis of the counterguard of Bastion VI.

  • . Present state of Bastion IV. Both its form and size of the pond in the place of the moat is an author’s creation of Walerian Kronenberg. . Moats in their original state was dry, with not a big groove filled with water, so-called Cinet – half-round gutter. Filling the moats with water as a matter of fact marshing them took place by piling up water in the mobilization situation.

    Moats in their original state was dry, with not a big groove filled with water, so-called Cinet – half-round gutter. Filling the moats with water as a matter of fact marshing them took place by piling up water in the mobilization situation.