The Baroque fortifications in the Black Forest, also called Baroque Schanzen or Black Forest lines, are historical, military earthworks, known as schanzen, that were built in the Black Forest in what
Reconstruction of a baroque schanze near Gersbach (Southern Black Forest)
Star schanze at the Böllener Eck near Neuenweg
Baroque Schanze at the Höchst near Oberprechtal
Schwedenschanze (Zuflucht)
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The Schwedenschanze is a former schanze in Bad Peterstal-Griesbach in the Black Forest in Southern Germany.
Baroque fortifications in the Black Forest
…southwards. The epitaph of the schanze commandant, Johann Marckloffksy von Zabrak, who died in 1691, is on the eastern side of the church at Neuenweg. The Schwedenschanze (Zuflucht) is located in Zuflucht, a village of the municipality Bad Peterstal-Griesbach. It was built during the Thirty Years' War in 1632/1633. It consisted of…
The Schwedenschanze's circumferential ditch
The Schwedenschanze's layout