Explore the historic highlights of Turku
Turku, Finland
ca. 15th century
Turku, Finland
1400-1410
Turku, Finland
1280
Turku, Finland
1999
Turku, Finland
ca. 1800
Turku, Finland
1819
Turku, Finland
1229
Turku, Finland
1899-1905
Turku, Finland
1351
Turku, Finland
1440
Turku, Finland
1793
Turku, Finland
12th century
Kristiansten Fortress was built to protect the city against attack from the east. Construction was finished in 1685. General Johan Caspar von Cicignon, who was chief inspector of kuks fortifications, was responsible for the new town plan of Trondheim after the great fire of 18 April 1681. He also made the plans for the construction of Kristiansten Fortress.
The fortress was built during the period from 1682 to 1684 and strengthened to a complete defence fortification in 1691 by building an advanced post Kristiandsands bastion in the east and in 1695 with the now vanished Møllenberg skanse by the river Nidelven. These fortifications were encircled by a continuous palisade and thereby connected to the fortified city. In 1750 the fortress was modernized with new bastions and casemates to protect against mortar artillery.