Stop R II-III (ravelin
and curtain no 2 and 3 with
Szczebrzeska Gate) - Directions and description

The setting of the Szczebrzeska Gate in the curtain between bastions no 2 and 3 is a unique place where the contribution and the effect of the work already undertaken in the 21st century, with the support of both EOG and the European Union, is the most visible. Ultimately, it will be the second, after the environment of the bastion no 7, instead of a complete reconstruction of the fortified landscape of the Zamość fortress - literally “Stopped Time Sector”. The contrast between not clearly legible area of south-western entrance to the city (which, in the context of radical restoration works has been cut off) and the present state of the Szczebrzeska Gate and its foreland is probably the biggest in the whole city of Zamość. The Szczebrzeska Gate, the largest of the gates of Zamość, designed at the end of the sixteenth century by Bernardo Morando and completed by Blaise Gocmana, was rebuilt in the late Baroque style in the years 1770-1772, and again in the years 1821-1824, when it received a monumental, classical appearance. After blowing up the curtains at the time of the liquidation of the fortress in the years 1866-1868, it became a free-standing building, performing the functions of the garrison kitchen. In twenties of the 20th century it served as a function of a boarding house. Eventually it got immersed in the green, the peripheral building without any architectural expression. Just later it regained splendor thanks to the program: maintenance, renovation, and adaptation for the purposes of culture of the Old Town fortifications in Zamość, funded within the EEA. The gate was greatly restored in 2010, together with the reconstructed bridge fortification, restored blockhouse, which was guarding the entry and reconstructed surface of the square inside the old ravelin is the new flagship of Zamość.

In turn, the program : Zamość - city of UNESCO, a monument of the history of the Republic of Poland as a tourist product of the Polish economy, added in 2012, almost a full reconstruction of the embankments of ravelin in front of the Szczebrzeska Gate and reconstruction of sections of curtains. There was implemented the most ambitious in the former stronghold task under the project of Infrastructure and Environment, and a reconstruction of bastions no 2 and 3 and the reconstruction of the curtain between the Szczebrzeska Gate and the bastion no 3 with hidden inside the shaft modern building of the Museum of Old Weapons and Fortifications, will close a monumental and unique view of the powerful bastion towers, from the south. View, which even in 2007 did not exist.