Explore the historic highlights of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
12th century
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
12th century
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
1602
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
1861
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
1823
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
1894
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
1671-1678
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
1128
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
18th century
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
1874
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
1670/1820
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
c. 1375-1425
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
c. 1124
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
c. 1590
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
15th century
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
140 AD
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
1429
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
c. 1454
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
16th 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.