The Cité de Carcassonne (Aude department, Occitanie, southern France). The Cité de Carcassonne (Aude department, Occitanie, southern France). At the beginning of the 13th century, Carcassonne was one of the main strongholds of the Cathars.
(December 2010)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Festungen, #fortifications, #Architektur, #architecture, #Carcassonne, #Okzitanien, #Occitanie, #France, #Frankreich
(December 2010)

Bei der Weiterfahrt haben wir auch wieder einen #Martello_Tower gesehen und sind so dicht als möglich hingewandert. Aber im Gegensatz zu dem, den wir bei #Meelick_Quay vor ein paar Tagen gesehen haben, ist dieser in #Privatbesitz und nicht zugänglich.
#Martello_Towers besteht aus 164 einzelnen Türmen, verteilt an wichtigen #Wasserwegen, wurden sie im 18 Jhrd. erbaut und als #Festungen genutzt, um sich vor #Piraten und anderen #Eindringlingen zu schützen.
#Irland
#Aixam
#Ring_of_Hook
#History

The Wesel Citadel (1688–1722, 1809) was once the largest fortification in the Rhineland. The citadel gate can be seen here.
(January 2024)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Festungen, #fortifications, #Architektur, #architecture, #Zitadelle_Wesel, #Niederrhein

Attempted air raids on the Marienberg fortress near Würzburg (Lower Franconia/Bavaria) ?
(August 2016)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Festungen, #fortresses, #Architektur, #architecture, #Festung_Marienberg, #Würzburg, #Unterfranken

The Moselle in Koblenz shortly before it flows into the Rhine. Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in the background.
(March 2004)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Flüsse, #rivers, #Mosel, #Moselle, #Festungen, #fortifications, #Ehrenbreitstein, #Koblenz

In the provinces of Ardahan and Kars (NE Turkey), geese are part of the townscape (here in front of the Ardahan fortress, among other places)
(September 2012)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Vögel, #birds, #Gänse, #geese, #animals, #Festungen, #fortress, #Architektur, #architecture, #Ardahan, #Turkey, #Türkei

The ruins of the Kaiserswerth Imperial Palace are located on the banks of the Rhine in the Kaiserswerth district of Düsseldorf. It dates back to a monastery founded by the monk Suitbert(us) around 700, but was then expanded into a mighty fortress under Emperor Frederick Barbarossa at the end of the 12th century and later served as a customs fortress.
(November 2024)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Burgen, #castles, #Paläste, #palaces, #Festungen, #fortifications, #Burgruinen, #Kaiserpfalz, #Düsseldorf_Kaiserswerth

Rheinfels Castle is located above St. Goar (Rhine-Hunsrück district, Rhineland-Palatinate) and was founded in 1245. After its expansion into a fortress, it was the largest fortification in the Middle Rhine Valley, but was destroyed by French revolutionary troops at the end of the 18th century.
(August 2024)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Burgen, #castles, #Festungen, #fortifications, #Architektur, #architecture, #Burg_Rheinfels, #Sankt_Goar, #Mittelrhein, #Rheinland_Pfalz

The fortress of Ardahan (eastern Turkey) above the river Kura, the longest river in the Caucasus (1,364 km). It rises in the province of Ardahan and then flows through Georgia and Azerbaijan into the Caspian Sea.
(September 2012)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Flüsse, #rivers, #Kura, #Festungen, #fortifications, #Architektur, #architecture, #Ardahan, #Turkey, #Türkei