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    The Fortification of Copenhagen     1880-1920             
         

 

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Maps and Overview
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Fortification overview

Historic      
     
Defence of Copenhagen
      
The Persons behind
      
The  Mobilisation 1914
     
German Attack ??

     
The Northern Defence Line
      
The Forts
     
The Batteries
     
The Floodings
      The Positions


The Naval and Coastal Forts
      
The 1. Defence Line
      
The 2. Defence Line
      
The 3. Defence Line


The Southern Defence Line
     
The Principles
    
The Profile
     T
he Caponiere
    
The Batteries
    
The Storing Facilities
 

The Tune Position
       A New Kind of War
       The Air War
      
The Position
      
The Mosede Fort

      
The Foxholes
      
The Galleries
      
The Trenches     
      
The Artillery
      
The Air Defence    
      
The Camps and Barracks
      
Other Facilities
      
Map
      
After WW I
       The Present Remains

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  The storing facilities

Specially the southern part of the defence line was as a fact one chain of batteries.
The artillery that was supposed to fire at the enemy at long distance.
In connection with the batteries there were several storing facilities.
Some were build at the same time as the rest of the defence line, and others were
build later as peace time storing facilities.

 

               

                       Original battery. 2 or 4 guns were deployed at each side of the center. 
                                         The grenades were brought up by elevator.

                                                 Ophejsningsapparat
  Amunition elevator
        Niche i ammunitionsmagasin
         Storing room for shells

                                  

Drawings of the storing facilities.           

                                      

 

 

              Later, 1902, the ammunition from forts and batteries, were gathered i these new
             storing buildings, named after the Minister of Defence, Madsen, who had them build.