Description of the attraction
Terespolskie gates - western in the system of passages of the Ring Barracks, open the entrance to the Citadel and the descent to the bank of the Bug. They got the name due to the direction to Terespol, a city in Poland. The suspension bridge, built in the 19th century, was badly damaged during the war in 1915, and was completely destroyed during the fighting in World War II. A new suspended pedestrian bridge is planned.
The Terespolskie Gates were an example of 19th century classicism - three-storeyed with small gate towers. Above from the inside were two large-capacity water reservoirs for filling the water supply of the Citadel. The Terespol direction of the barrage was made up of four lunettes, connected by a moat for maneuvers. In lunettes nos. 2 and 3 there were equipped strongholds of resistance - reduits in casemates. Further there were the 9th and 10th bastions, the so-called bridgehead fortifications. In 1939, the canal that went around the fortress and went into the Western Bug marked the border of the USSR.
Until the start of the war, courses for blacksmiths and drivers, a company of transport workers, a platoon of sappers, a camp of cavalry and athletes, a veterinary clinic, border detachment posts were organized in the Terespol fortification, and the families of the command of the unit also lived here. In the first minutes of the attack, the upper part of the gate was completely destroyed by artillery, and the rest of the walls were also significantly damaged.
In 2011, a number of works were carried out around the Terespol fortification. They removed a large, about a meter, layer of soil, the ground level was lowered to the level of the beginning of the 20th century, exposing the lifting mechanisms and posts of the 19th century.
Description added:
Yuri Grudovik (Gurock) 2015-15-09
Terespol barracks cannot "lead from the ring barracks near the citadel", because the ring barracks are the Citadel.
