Lunette (fortification)

Bezel ( from the French lunette, "glasses", the word is originally derived from " small moon " wise) is named since the 17th century in early modern fortress an independent fortification with two Facen and two flanks.

History

A bezel is a self- fortification, which is similar in plan of a bastion ( a bastion but always in conjunction with a wall ). The back of a bezel, called throat could be open or secured by a wall, a palisade or a low mound against a direct assault. Pre- Deferred lunettes were often protected by a transition ( → Communication ) connected to the outer ramparts of a fortress. However, also possessed in the 19th century built detached forts, thus completely segregated from the ramparts, far advanced art, often in the form of lunettes.

The bezel as an advanced independent work is not (French demi- lune ) to be confused with a " crescent " that was ever built in the trench just before the top of a bastion (even if half moon sometimes may take the form of a steady rest ).

For extended definition of

With the use of the word is to be noted that in a broad sense, the term bezel is attached to the floor plan of the work (read: two Facen and two edges), regardless of its function or task of the work in connection with the fortress. Therefore, in the description of a ravelins, the work was always built to protect the curtain between two bastions, both from a bezel or a Flesche ( a plant with two Facen without edges) are spoken in both cases only the shape and not the function is intended.

Examples received

(Wall shields ) were lunettes often before the ravelins defined as more advanced outworks in front of the main walls of fortresses. In Germany, only a few examples of lunettes 've received ( Citadel Petersberg, Erfurt). Here flanked still a bezel the Ravelin Anselm, the southern counterpart front of the bastion Gabriel has disappeared today. In Cologne are still parts of a bezel of the former wholesale fortress documented.