Glacis

The Glacis [ ɡlasi ː ] is in the modern fortress rising slightly from the field side Erdanschüttung before digging. It serves the defenders on the ramparts as a field of fire and offers by avoiding blind spots attackers as little coverage. Unlike temporary, fortified camps they served as a permanent stronghold parapet that protected a covered way before income effect and has enabled a defense of the trench.

The glacis was undeveloped and not overgrown with trees, ideally, to take opposing troops to cover every possibility. In addition, were often planted on a deep-rooted plants Glacis to impede the digging of trenches approach. Also abatis could be applied as an approximation obstacle on the glacis. In conjunction with the pentagonal shape of the bastions and the regular, polygonal ground plan of the fortress walls was prevented by a glacis the plant that the guns of the fortress of seized space is created. Over time, the glacis was always higher heaped to impede enemy troops approach the work on the fortifications.

Place names that suggest the former glacis

Today, in many cities, street names suggest, in which the word occurs Glacis, to the former presence of fortifications for:

  • Aachen Glacis in Cologne
  • Allée des Glacis in Saint- Omer
  • Alsterglacis in Hamburg
  • At the Glacis in Leoben
  • At the lip Glacis in Wesel
  • Avenue des Glacis in Saint- Omer
  • Chemin de Glacis in Bapaume, Longwy, Saint- Omer, Talant
  • Glacis in Gorinchem, Portland (Dorset )
  • Glacis Bridge in Ingolstadt
  • Glacischaussee in Hamburg
  • Glacis alley in Leoben
  • Glacis Road Gibraltar
  • Glacisstraße in Breisach am Rhein, Dresden, Germersheim, Graz, Landau, Neu-Ulm, Solothurn
  • Glacisweg in Berlin, Freiburg, Hellevoetsluis, Hulst, Maastricht, Phillipsburg, Wiesbaden, Würzburg
  • Holstenglacis in Hamburg
  • In Glacis in Saarlouis
  • Impasse de Glacis in Agde
  • Marie Glacis a part of the Minden in Minden Glacis
  • Place du Glacis in Luxembourg
  • Rue des Glacis in Auxonne, Belfort, Besançon, Douai, Longwy, Liege, Nancy, Quebec, Saint -Quentin, Valenciennes
  • Rue des Glacis de Rive in Geneva
  • Rue du Glacis in Châtillon- sur -Loire, Cheilly -lès- Maranges, Fléron, Les Aix- d'Angillon, Melle ( Deux -Sèvres ), Montreal, Rousies, Saint -Augustin (Seine- et- Marne), Saint- Gervais -en- Vallière, Tournan -en- Brie, Venizy

In Magdeburg, Minden, Neu-Ulm, Würzburg Torgau and also the city park is so called, which lies on the former glacis and in the ditch.

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