This blog is edited by Peter Pišút, Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Mlynská dolina, 842 15, Bratislava 4, Slovakia
štvrtok 5. februára 2009
Protiturecké pevnosti na ochranu bratislavského predmostia na historických mapách 17.-19. storočia.
Pôvodná línia petržalských zemných násypov a opevnení s datovaním do r. 1663, zákres na mape A. E. Friča z r. 1751 (mapa č. 3 v prílohe). Svah zemnej pevnôstky - reduty z r. 1809 severne od Viedenskej cesty, chrániacej prístup k bratislavskému púredmostiu. Detail pôdorysov dvoch z opevnení na katastrálnej mape Petržalky z r. 1856 (mapa č. 10 v prílohe), indikované hlavne priebehom hraníc jednotlivých parciel.
This paper examines almost unknown fortifications built to defend strategically important Bratislava´s bridgehead in Petržalka. Interpretation of the 18th – 19th historical maps combined with literary data allows to recognise 3 stages in development of redoubts and earthen embankments, which were most likely first constructed in 1682-3. Remnants of originally eight modest-size redoubts, linked with 2 km long embankment, were during the Napoleonic war (1809) rebuilt by Austrian military into 6 larger, polygonal-shaped earthen outposts. Eventually, during the revolution in 1848 two of them near the Vienna highway were repeteadly strengthened by Hungarian Honvéd Army. Their remnants survived until today.