Reduit

The Reduit ( from the French réduit ) is a fortified defensive structure, which served to retreat for the crew, if the upstream defensive wall was overcome by the enemy. The Reduit ( the core business ) lies in the interior of a defensive wall. Increasingly used they came in detachierten works of Neupreußischen / Neudeutsche attachment style of the 19th century. They were among the strongest fortifications and should ensure a stubborn defense. The Citadel, for example, is the Reduit or withdrawal mechanism within a fortress, by analogy, had the castle building the keep the function of a redoubt.

Individual Reduits

  • Fortress of Antwerp, Antwerp
  • Redoubt in the Swiss Alps ( National Réduit ), see: Swiss Reduit
  • Federal fortress Ulm - several outdoor forts
  • Fortress Koblenz - Fort Asterstein, Feste Kaiser Franz
  • Reduit the bridgehead of the fortress Kastel Mainz - Rhine River in Mainz -Kastel
  • Komárno (Slovakia )
  • Komárom Monostori EROD (Fortress Monostor )
  • Reduit Tilly - part of the bridge head securing the land fortress Ingolstadt
National redoubt of Belgium Fortress of Ulm Koblenz Fortress
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