Description of the attraction
The Turkish bastion is a defensive structure of the old part of the city of Kamenets-Podolsk. The building itself is referred to as the north-western fortifications. The name - Turkish - came from the fact that this part of the fortress was a kind of fortification of the Turkish bridge leading to the castle.
The bastion is a large four-arched structure with casemates and embrasures for cannons. The bastion is about 9-11 meters high. All four rooms of the casemates are identical in structure and have the same dimensions: width 6 m, length 9 m. The entrance was considered to be a tambour made of stone. All the premises of the casemate were divided by box-shaped rooms, up to half of the available height, covered with earth.
In 1753, the fortifications were reconstructed by the German engineer Christian Dahlke. Hence, another well-known name came from - Fort Dalke. The casemates began to gradually collapse already at the beginning of the 19th century, so it was decided to strengthen them with both stone and wooden pillars, and over time, the casemates were completely rebuilt and adapted for storage facilities.
There was also a shop on the territory, which in 1856 was converted into a theater by local theater-goer Jan Pekarsky. At first, or rather for five whole years, all the plays were performed in Polish, and from 1861 in Russian. In May 1918, the theater ceased to exist, as it completely burned down. Nowadays, only in the photographs of Stepan Nikolaev you can see what the legendary theater of the city was like at that time. Together with the theater, the not very large Teatralny Lane also disappeared.
Interestingly, the Turkish bastion was connected by a solid stone fence to the Wind Gate.
