Rijksmonumentenregister · Netherlands
Gracht, Vesting Middelburg Middelburg
Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands
The record
- Designation
- National monument (rijksmonument)
- Class
- Gracht
- Category
- onroerend gebouwd
- Address
- Vesting Middelburg Middelburg
- Place
- Middelburg
- Province
- Zeeland
- Country
- Netherlands
- Coordinates
- 51.49800, 3.60449
- Part of complex
- 481741
- Monument number
- 482108
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLeiden University LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLeiden University Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1570 map "(18) Zelandicarum Insvlarum." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This monument in the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed's register ↗
The register's description
Omschrijving
COURTINE II-IIICourtine met voorliggende gracht ter breedte van ca. 50m, buitengrachtboord ter breedte van ca. 5m en nabij bolwerk III een gemetselde duikersluis ter breedte van ca. 2m met aan de grachtzijde vleugelmuren.
English translation
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Description
CURTAIN II-III Curtain with preceding ditch approximately 50m in width, external ditch margin approximately 5m in width and near bastion III a mortared culvert approximately 2m in width with wing walls on the ditch side.
Nearby in the register
- Vestingwal, Restanten omwallingOmwallingunder 1 mi
- Gracht, Vesting Middelburg MiddelburgGrachtunder 1 mi
- Gracht, Vesting Middelburg MiddelburgGrachtunder 1 mi
- Gracht, Vesting Middelburg MiddelburgGrachtunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.