Fortress of Ulm

Local name
LocationBavaria, Deutschland

The fortress of Ulm was one of five federal fortresses of the German Confederation around the cities of Ulm and Neu-Ulm. With its 9 km polygonal main circumvallation Ulm had the biggest fortress in Germany in the 19th century and it is still one of the biggest in Europe.After the final defeat of Napoleon in 1815, the victorious powers agreed to defend the states from the inside. The fortresses were one of the few realised projects of the confederation. The fortress Ulm was planned by the Prussian construction manager Moritz Karl Ernst von Prittwitz und Gaffron and built under his supervision between 1842 and 1859.In peacetimes the fortress should hold 5,000 men of the federal army, in wartimes up to 20,000 soldiers. A plan to expand the fortress to hold 100,000 men was never realised. The building costs were valued at 16,5 mio. guilders.

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Plan des Fort Oberer… @ Ludwig Daitmaier

More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_of_Ulm

Official Website http://www.festung-ulm.de/

Coordinates 48°23'34.855" N 10°0'46.484" E

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