Front I-II

English translation

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Description

FRONT I-II WITH BOMBPROOF BARRACKS, MAGAZINES, CASEMATES, POSTERN, SHELTERS AND A FORMER GERMAN GUN BUNKER.

Complex of fortification works, arising from hornwork I and bastion II, consisting of:

- largely revetted rampart;

- behind the faces 11 gun emplacements with ammunition niches in the parapet wall; furthermore 10 niches for voice-tube operators in the talus of the traverses;

- likewise between and beside those emplacements 6 hollow traverses and 7 solid traverses;

- behind the right (curved) flank a gun emplacement with traverse and parados;

- behind the right flank a small bombproof rectangular powder magazine with separately ventilated surrounding void (building p):

- behind the left face a large bombproof powder and projectile magazine, containing two work rooms and five powder chambers, around which a surrounding corridor. The inner wall is fitted with a number of separately ventilated light niches (lantern positions), which are only accessible from the corridor; the powder chamber side is shielded by a thick glass plate. The overhead cover of the building allows only the entrance and the facade of the two work rooms to be visible; in that facade two doors and three windows to be blocked (building b);

- a bombproof barracks behind front I-II with three storeys, accessible via a centrally located stairwell. The ground floor and first storey each comprising eight vaulted spaces for quarters, welfare and storage; the basement storey contains five rooms. Only the front facade of the building is visible; this is a flat masonry facade, in which the (internal) vaults are carried through and recognisable. Per room there are one or more window and door openings to be blocked. (building a).

- a bombproof building in the salient of front I-II containing two casemates with ammunition niches and (covered by a masonry orillon) shooting slits, a torpedo magazine and a postern. This provides access to the building from the terreplein (building c);

- On three hollow traverses a group station.

- foreground moat with width of:

- on the south side approximately 15 metres;

- on the southwest side approximately 30 metres, rising to the northwest to approximately 70 metres;

- on the west side approximately 40 metres

- in the facing wall on the river side embedded a natural stone relief-carved commemorative stone with inscription: AUSPICIO ETCURADDIACHEERT et IOH MEERMANREIP LANDIA CONSILIARAMPLISSI MCNAVICMBELEICRECEPTACLORETIMCENTIBUSCA TARACTISMUNIMENEIRMATANUROQUE CXCLXANNOCD

Sculptor: D. Drifculptet in Amsterdam

translation: under the oversight and management of the gentlemen Iac. Haeften and Joh. Meerman, commissioners and counsellors of the Dutch Republic, these batteries have hereby been built and strengthened with a wall as a safe storage place for warships and under the same oversight the great sluices here recently renewed and restored in the year 1699;

- in the facing wall on the harbour side a (recently renewed) culvert sluice.

- furthermore on the southern part of this complex section a former German gun bunker (building K).