Search results for: COASTAL FORTIFICATIONS

• Fortifications of Hel Peninsula in Poland – history, preservation and contemporary adaptation.

  Publication

  • A. Woźniakowski
  • J. Szczepański
  • R. Hirsch

  - Year 2017

  The Hel Peninsula fortifications are one of the largest and most interesting historic coastal fortification complexes in Poland. Built from the 1930s until demilitarisation at the end of the Cold War, they are now one of the biggest tourist attractions of the region. The article attempts to describe the history of their development, current state and selected problems related to their protection and adaptation for touristic purposes....

• The Eastern Battery in Świnoujście, Poland - history and architecture of a Prussian coastal fort from the 19th century

  Publication

  • A. Woźniakowski

  - Year 2018

  The article describes the history, architecture and development of the Eastern Battery (also known as the Gerhard Fort) – one of three remaining coastal forts in Świnoujście (former Swinemünde) located in northern Poland, by the Baltic Sea. The research is mostly based on historical cartographic material and architectural plans verified during field studies. This data served to create a digital model – one of the results of the...

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