History:
In the courtyard of the high bastion VI - securely nestled between the Schwichow fortified bastion and the Königstor ravelin - lies War Powder Magazine No. 1, built in 1819. In the event of a siege, it had to hold the powder supplies from Peace Powder Magazine No. 1, which was built outside the fortress for security reasons. The highly explosive powder stores were always kept outside the densely populated city fortresses, as was the case in Minden. Each time the fortifications were reinforced, the powder supplies were taken from the external depots back to the casemated powder magazines behind the main rampart. The supply in powder magazine no. 1 amounted to up to 1,000 hundredweights of gunpowder, which was stored in wooden barrels.
The core of the magazine building consists of a solid brick, elongated barrel vault, which lies under a massive saddle roof and is supported on each side by four buttresses. At the front end is a small entrance sluice with angled access. To protect against the greater penetrating power of projectiles from rifled guns, which were developed and introduced in the armies around the middle of the century, the fortress construction authorities surrounded the older magazine building with a second wall shell and a thick earth embankment in 1869-71. The air jacket between the walls served to keep the building and the powder stores dry.
The powder kegs were stored on two storey levels on a wooden structure. Powder magazines were usually constructed away from the main rampart. This was to prevent the rampart system from breaking open in the event of an explosion.
The magazine building is now the only fully preserved part of the former ramparts; tall trees have now grown on the earth fill.
In the courtyard of the high bastion VI - securely nestled between the Schwichow fortified bastion and the Königstor ravelin - lies War Powder Magazine No. 1, built in 1819. In the event of a siege, it had to hold the powder supplies from Peace Powder Magazine No. 1, which was built outside the fortress for security reasons. The highly explosive powder stores were always kept outside the densely populated city fortresses, as was the case in Minden. Each time the fortifications were reinforced, the powder supplies were taken from the external depots back to the casemated powder magazines behind the main rampart. The supply in powder magazine no. 1 amounted to up to 1,000 hundredweights of gunpowder, which was stored in wooden barrels.
The core of the magazine building consists of a solid brick, elongated barrel vault, which lies under a massive saddle roof and is supported on each side by four buttresses. At the front end is a small entrance sluice with angled access. To protect against the greater penetrating power of projectiles from rifled guns, which were developed and introduced in the armies around the middle of the century, the fortress construction authorities surrounded the older magazine building with a second wall shell and a thick earth embankment in 1869-71. The air jacket between the walls served to keep the building and the powder stores dry.
The powder kegs were stored on two storey levels on a wooden structure. Powder magazines were usually constructed away from the main rampart. This was to prevent the rampart system from breaking open in the event of an explosion.
The magazine building is now the only fully preserved part of the former ramparts; tall trees have now grown on the earth fill.
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The bunker is located on Königswall and is easy to reach by car. The alternative to parking is diagonally opposite in the "Weingarten" parking lot.
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