Fort Napoleon (Oostende)

Fort Napoleon is one of the last remaining polygonal forts from Napoleonic times (1811-1815) - Ostend, Belgium

Maps

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  schematic map
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  Fort Napoleon seen from the air

History

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  Marshall Hindenburg inspecting the site (1917)
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  Hindenburg battery captured by the Belgian army (1918)

Fort Napoleon

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  panoramic view
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  dry moat
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  caponier
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  view through a loophole of a caponier
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  Inside a caponier
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  Inside a caponier
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  view through window on caponier and counterscarp
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  Inside the fort
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  kitchen
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  warehouse
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  flat roof
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  Roof

Wall paintings by H-O Pieper

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  'Der Barbar' - painting by H.-O. Pieper, a German soldier during WW I
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  Town musicians of Bremen, persiflage by Heinrich-Otto Pieper
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  Saint Barbara, surrounded by cannons of the Hindenburg battery