Cavalier (fortification)

A cavalier, also called Bastions or Kurtinenkatze, is a Emplacement, which clearly dominates the neighboring plants for better control of the pre- busi ness or the outworks of tactical priorities. Cavaliers are usually built on bastions from the late 16th century. They are usually created so that could be given by them and the main wall from floor fire. In the New German fastening also a reference to defensive barracks behind front angles, the top of the Wall have a überhöhende position (example: Ingolstadt ).

Occurrence

Fixed city

For the establishment of a " cat " as a medieval fortification in the wall rim of the walls a certain area was increased on the inside to the mural crown with soil from the straight course of the city wall at the respective corners of the city. At the same time the city walls was a projection ( flanking the sides ). Surface dimensions of such a cat are not nachlesbar, of about 200 m² can be assumed. But basically had not every city of a medieval Bering ( city walls) was surrounded, those cats.

After the renovation or expansion of a " city festivals " to a " fortress " saw it with the cats is very different. In the definition of " bastions or curtains cat " is. These are terms from the fortress terminology. In the medieval " city festivals " there was no bastions or curtains in the modern sense (from about 1500), hence no " Bastions or Kurtinenkatzen ".

Bastion

On a finished Bastion, as part of a bastion front, came on top of it again a building, the bastion cat (pictured letter c). The extent of an Bastion cat as well as the bastion was standardized. The standard values ​​refer to the corresponding Baumanier. That is, if enough space was available, manners was built, ie with fixed length, width and height values ​​for the " regular ". "Irregular " fortresses of the respective Baumanier had an area of ​​approximately 300 m² for the Bastion cat. Irregular means that as the topography it pretended. It had to be built smaller, withholding, ( as far as possible ) of the regularly prescribed dimensions. After valid fortified French language the correct term would be a bastion cat then the " cavalier ". The " Cavalier " is therefore a real cat. Differences relate to ( neuitalienisch, Old and Modern Dutch, Prussian than the corresponding Grundbaumanieren ) on the diverse Baumanier a fortress.