Barbican

The Barbican (including the Barbican ) is the goal of a late medieval or renaissance temporal castle or city wall upstream defense work. The round in a classic design Baumanier served as cannon bastion no preferred direction for the judging of there free-standing guns.

In contrast to Torzwinger the Barbican stood with the curtain wall or only partially connected and was often built side of the ditch. The barbacans come from the attempt to respond in the second half of the 15th century the firearms by vorschaltete the gates well defendable additional defensive and protective structures. Later Raveline were the fortifications used in a similar function.

The largest preserved Barbican in Europe is the Barbican in Krakow, Poland. More barbacans located in Görlitz on the Cultural History Museum Görlitz, in Naumburg an der Saale on Marientor in Jena at the Powder Tower, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, in Aachen on Ponttor, in Nuremberg (reconstruction ) in Warsaw (reconstruction ) at the Marienburg, in the town castle Banská Bystrica, in Moscow, in York ( Walmgate bar ) and at Fort de Salses in the French Pyrenees. A - albeit small - Barbican stands as Torschutz front of the castle Frýdlant in the same place in Bohemia.