Pevnost Praha

Fortress Prague
Festung Prag
     
Název:
Name:
Pevnost Praha Fortress Prague
Originální název:
Original Name:
Pevnost Praha
Další názvy:
Other Names:
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Obec:
Municipality:
Praha Prague
GPS souřadnice:
GPS Coordinates:
50°05'20.72"N 14°25'14.11"E
Fotografie nebo nákres:
Photo or Sketch:
Typ pevnostního komplexu:
Type of Fortress Complex:
bastionový komplex bastion complex
Vyšší pevnostní celek:
Upper Fortress Complex:
žádný no
Části pevnostního komplexu:
Components of the Fortress Complex:
Malá Strana a Pražský hrad
Staré a Nové Město
Citadela Vyšehrad
Mala Strana and Prague Castle
Old and New Town
Vysehrad Citadel
Zahájení stavby:
Start of Construction:
DD.MM.1648
Dokončení stavby:
Completion of Construction:
DD.MM.1727
Výzbroj:
Armament:
? ?
Posádka:
Crew:
1 000 - 3 000
Bojové využití:
Combat Use:
16.11.1741-26.11.1741 Válka o habsburské dědictví
16.07.1742-28.12.1742 Válka o habsburské dědictví
01.09.1744-15.09.1744 Druhá slezská válka
07.05.1757-20.06.1757 Sedmiletá válka
16.11.1741-26.11.1741 War of the Habsburg Heritage
16.07.1742-28.12.1742 War of the Habsburg Heritage
01.09.1744-15.09.1744 Second Silesian War
07.05.1757-20.06.1757 Seven Years' War
Současný stav:
Current Condition:
zachovalý well maintained
Přístupnost:
Accessibility:
volně přístupno open free
Poznámka:
Note:
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Zdroje:
Sources:
Vladimír Kupka: Pražská opevnění (Praha 2008)
Andrej Romaňák: Praha jako pevnost (Praha 1989)
Edgar T. Havránek: Neznámá Praha I. (Praha 1939)
Zdeněk Wirth: Zmizelá Praha V. (Praha 1948)
Josef Janáček: Malé dějiny Prahy (Praha 1983)
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At the end of the 9th century, the Přemyslid prince Bořivoj I (according to other sources, only his son Spytihněv I) founded a fortress on a rocky promontory above the confluence of the Brusnice and Vltava rivers, which became the forerunner of the later Prague Castle. The fortification of this new princely residence consisted of an earthen rampart with an internal lattice construction, the front side of which was formed by a wall of dry-laid brick stones.
About a hundred years later, Vyšehrad (originally Chrasten) was built on a large rock plateau south of Prague Castle, which in the 1160s was chosen as the seat of the prince and later the first Czech king Vratislav I.
In the course of the 11th and 12th centuries, the original ramparts of Prague Castle and Vyšehrad were replaced by Romanesque walls made of block masonry, and both fortifications were thus transformed into classic early medieval castles. Over time, four separate towns were created in the area between them:


- Old Town Prague, originally a market settlement at the crossroads of trade routes, which was made a royal town by Wenceslas I in 1230.


- The Lesser Town of Prague (Malá Strana, originally Nové Město), which was the southern suburb of Prague Castle. In 1257 it was made a royal town by Přemysl Otakar II.


- Hradčany was originally also a sub-castle, but in this case it was rather the western forepart of Prague Castle. In 1320, the then highest Prague purgrave Hynek Berka of Dubá elevated it to a subject town.


- New Town Prague was founded as a royal town in 1348 by Charles IV as a reaction to the growing population of the other three Prague towns.


Sources:
- Vladimír Kupka: Prague Fortifications (Prague 2008)
- Andrej Romaňák: Prague as a Fortress (Prague 1989)
- Edgar T. Havránek: Unknown Prague I (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Disappeared Prague V. (Prague 1948)
- Václav Hlavsa, Jiří Vančura: Malá Strana (Prague 1983)
- Vilém Lorenc: New Town of Prague (Prague 1973)
- Josef Janáček: A Little History of Prague (Prague 1983)




Prague Towns after the Completion of the Karlovy Vary Walls
Source: School Atlas of Czechoslovak History (Prague 1959)
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Old Town Prague


After its foundation (1230) under Wenceslas I, the Old Town of Prague was surrounded by a wall made of rubble stone, about 3.5 km long, 7-11 metres high and two metres thick at its base. A shooting gallery with a battlements ran along its crest. The wall was reinforced with 16 prismatic towers, about 60 metres apart, and in the most threatened south-eastern section a parcan wall with a moat was placed in front of it. The stretch along the river consisted only of the wall and the moat.


From the bank of the Vltava the walls ran along the line of today's Revoluční, Na příkopě, 28. října and Národní streets. From there it turned northwards and roughly along the riverbank back to St. Francis Monastery. Passage through the walls was made possible by gates, designed as prismatic towers with a drawbridge over the moat, and pedestrian gates (forts) broken in the wall.


The gate of St. Francis stood at František Street, the Black Gate at the end of Dlouhá Street, the gate of St. Benedict at the end of Královodvorská Street, the gate of Horská (St. Ambrose, later Odraná), at Můstek the Havel gate (Svatohavelská, Nová), at the end of Perlová Street the gate (Svatohavelská, K Panně Marii Sněžné), at Perštýn the Zderaz gate (Svatomartinská), at the mouth of Karolina Světlé Street the St. Stephen gate. Towards the Vltava River there was the St. Andrew's Gate in Betlémská Street, the gate at the end of Na zábradlí Street at the Church of St. John on the Balustrade, the Mostecká Gate at Juditina Bridge, the St. Valentin's Gate at the end of Kaprova Street and the last one was the Jewish Fortress at the end of today's Pařížská Street.


Sources.
- Vladimír Kupka: Prague Fortifications (Prague 2008)
- Andrej Romaňák: Prague as a Fortress (Prague 1989)
- Edgar T. Havránek: Unknown Prague I (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Disappeared Prague V. (Prague 1948)
- Václav Hlavsa, Jiří Vančura: Malá Strana (Prague 1983)
- Vilém Lorenc: New Town of Prague (Prague 1973)
- Josef Janáček: A Little History of Prague (Prague 1983)



Fortification of the Old Town of Prague before 1348
Source: Vladimír Kupka: The Fortifications of Prague (Prague 2008)

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Lesser Town of Prague (Lesser Town) before 1348


The walls of the Lesser Town of Prague (founded in 1257) were - unlike the walls of the Old Town - built of block masonry and their towers had not only a square but also a round plan. They started at the Black Tower of Prague Castle, descended the slope to the end of today's Valdštejnská Street and from there south to the Juditina Bridge over the Vltava River. Here stood the fortified commandery of the Order of the Johanites, from which the walls continued westwards, approximately along Tržiště and Břetislavova Streets, at the end of which they curved sharply to the north and joined the fortifications of Prague Castle via Nerudova Street at the upper end of today's New Castle Steps.
In the bend of today's Valdštejnská Street stood the Písek Gate, in Tomášská Street the fortress of St. Thomas. The entrance to the Juditin Bridge, connecting the Lesser Town with the Old Town, was guarded by a pair of square towers with a gate between them. At the mouth of Karmelitská Street into Malostranské Square stood the passage tower of Újezdská Gate, and to the north of it St. The last gate of the Lesser Town was the Strahov Gate, standing roughly in the middle of today's Nerudova Street.


Sources:
- Vladimír Kupka: Prague Fortifications (Prague 2008)
- Andrej Romaňák: Prague as a Fortress (Prague 1989)
- Edgar T. Havránek: Unknown Prague I (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Disappeared Prague V. (Prague 1948)
- Václav Hlavsa, Jiří Vančura: Malá Strana (Prague 1983)
- Vilém Lorenc: New Town of Prague (Prague 1973)
- Josef Janáček: A Little History of Prague (Prague 1983)



Fortification of the Lesser Town of Prague and Prague Castle before 1348
Source: Václav Hlavsa, Jiří Vančura: Malá Strana (Prague 1983)
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New Town of Prague


After the founding (1348) of the New Town of Prague, Charles IV had a generous fortification built to ensure the safety of not only the newly built town, but also the entire Prague Quadri-City. Its foundation was a wall of rubble stone, about two metres thick and 6 to 12 metres high, protected by an earthen rampart and a moat. A shooting gallery with a battlements ran along the crest of the wall. The defenders fired sideways (flanking) through prismatic towers embedded in the wall at a distance of 60 to 120 metres from each other. The exact number of these towers is not known, but it is estimated at about 40-50 towers for the New Town section (the last of the towers of this section, the so-called Malířská Bastion, stood on Charles Hill), about 13-15 towers for the Vyšehrad section and 20 towers (partly preserved on the Petřín remnant of the so-called Hunger Wall) for the Lesser Town section.


The walls of the New Town of Prague started at the river, at the site of the now demolished Prague-Těšnov railway station, along the route of the current north-south main line, they continued through Florenc along the Main Railway Station to the National Museum, then along Mezibranská and Sokolská streets to Karlovo Street, from where they connected to the fortifications of Vyšehrad via the Nusel Valley with the flowing Botič. The outer fortifications of the Vyšehrad citadel followed approximately the line of the still preserved Baroque walls and ended with the guarding building of the so-called Libušiny spa on the slope of the Vyšehrad rock above the Vltava River.


Five gates and a number of smaller gates (forten) allowed passage through the New Town walls, enabling the movement of people even if the large gates were closed at night or during an enemy siege. At the end of Petrská Street, at the Prague-Těšnov railway station, stood the Špitálská (Poříčská) gate, at the end of Hybernská Street the Horská (Šibeničná) gate, at the upper end of Wenceslas Square (Koňský trh), at the site of the National Museum, the Koňská gate, and at the end of Ječná Street, at today's I. P. Pavlov Square, the Svinská gate.

From Vyšehrad, which after the demolition of the walls against the New Town during the Hussite wars became more or less a territorial part of the New Town, there was only one gate leading to the Pankrác foreground, which was called Špička because of its nine Gothic pointed roof towers. The construction design of the gates was uniform. All of them consisted of an uncovered passage between two prismatic towers, only in the case of the Svinská Gate of the New Town and Špička Gate of Vyšehrad were the two towers interconnected at the level of the first floor into a compact defensive block.


Sources:
- Vladimír Kupka: Prague Fortifications (Prague 2008)
- Andrej Romaňák: Prague as a Fortress (Prague 1989)
- Edgar T. Havránek: Unknown Prague I (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Disappeared Prague V. (Prague 1948)
- Václav Hlavsa, Jiří Vančura: Malá Strana (Prague 1983)
- Vilém Lorenc: New Town of Prague (Prague 1973)
- Josef Janáček: A Little History of Prague (Prague 1983)



Fortification of the New Town of Prague
Source: The New Town of Prague (Prague 1973)
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Lesser Town of Prague (Lesser Town) after 1348


After the establishment of the New Town of Prague, the fortifications of the Lesser Town were considerably expanded. The new walls, the construction of which corresponded to the New Town walls, started below Újezd, climbed to the top of Petřín, from there they descended around Strahov Monastery to the Deer Ditch, to return along the northern side of Hradčany, Prague Castle and today's Old Castle Steps to the river at Klárov. Three gates led through them: Újezdská gate at Újezd, Strahovská (Říšská) gate at Pohořelec, and Písecká (Písecká) gate at Klárovo.



Sources:
- Vladimír Kupka: Prague Fortifications (Prague 2008)
- Andrej Romaňák: Prague as a Fortress (Prague 1989)
- Edgar T. Havránek: Unknown Prague I (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Disappeared Prague V. (Prague 1948)
- Václav Hlavsa, Jiří Vančura: Malá Strana (Prague 1983)
- Vilém Lorenc: New Town of Prague (Prague 1973)
- Josef Janáček: A Little History of Prague (Prague 1983)


Fortification of the Lesser Town of Prague, Hradčany and Prague Castle after 1348
Source: Václav Hlavsa, Jiří Vančura: Malá Strana (Prague 1983)
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Prague fortifications during the Thirty Years' War


Already shortly before the beginning of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), it was decided to reinforce the original Prague fortifications, especially at Pohořelec, where the Strahov Gate foreground rose up to the White Mountain and thus gave a possible besieger an advantage of elevation. Therefore, in 1619 the first earth bastion was built in front of the gate and the gate itself was rebuilt in an early Baroque form. In the following years, especially after the Swedish attack on Prague in 1639, 29 more simple, only partially walled earth bastions were built around Prague Town, of which only 5 on the New Town section (in front of the city gates and before the breach in the walls between Poříčská and Horská Gate) and 24 on the Lesser Town section. Also in front of the Vyšehrad Gate, an earthen corner wall (hornverk) was built.

Probably for reasons of economy, all these hastily constructed fortifications were based on the principles of the Dutch fortification school, which preferred unwalled earth embankments reinforced only with wicker, sod and wooden palisades. On the top of these embankments, a breastwork (banquet) was built, flanked by a series of earth-filled fortification baskets. The foreland was protected by ditches, palisade fences and other anti-personnel barriers.


By July 1648, the planned reconstruction of the fortifications of Mala Strana and Hradčany was roughly completed, for which Santino de Bossi's company alone was paid over 130,000 gold coins. However, there were still some unfinished business. For example, in August 1647 the imperial governors of Prague warned the governor of the Lesser Town of Prague, Jiří Felix Vitha of Rzavy, that "... there are such holes in the chanches behind the castle in some places that enemy cavalry and infantry troops could penetrate there and inspect everything; similarly, they could try something else behind Hradčany ..."


And indeed, it was here that the Swedes "infiltrated" in July 1648 and took Mala Strana by a sudden ambush. They did not manage to penetrate into the right bank of the city, only after the arrival of further reinforcements did they shoot up the old Gothic walls of the New Town in several places by the end of October 1648, so much so that they fought their way to St. Henry's Church. The imminent fall of the city was finally prevented - apart from the tenacious resistance of the weak imperial garrison and Prague City Militia - by the news of the end of the Thirty Years' War...


Sources:
- Vladimír Kupka: Prague Fortifications (Prague 2008)
- Andrej Romanyak: Prague as a Fortress (Prague 1989)
- Edgar T. Havránek: Unknown Prague I (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Disappeared Prague V. (Prague 1948)
- Václav Hlavsa, Jiří Vančura: Malá Strana (Prague 1983)
- Vilém Lorenc: New Town of Prague (Prague 1973)
- Josef Janáček: A Little History of Prague (Prague 1983)



Fortifications of Prague around 1650
Source: Seutter's map of Prague from 1650
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The founding of Fortress Prague


In 1650, General Count Raimund Montecuccoli submitted a memorial to the Emperor about the transformation of Prague into a fortress with a citadel at Vyšehrad. The technical master plan was drawn up by the engineer Colonel Count Inocenc de Conti, and the construction supervision was entrusted to the engineer Lieutenant Colonel Josef Priami of Rovereto, free lord of Lišná and Bystřice.

The construction of a new, this time continuous bastion fortification was started around 1653 on the right bank of the Vltava River (at the Poříčská Gate) and ended around 1730 with the fortification of the Lesser Town and Hradčany. The brick-walled earth bastions (bastions) and connecting curtains (walls) were moved in front of the original medieval walls and where possible, fortifications from the Thirty Years' War were also used. The tips (points) of the bastions were reinforced with sandstone block lining. The bastions were marked with numbers and names.


As a firing position for artillery and infantry, a continuous earthen rampart with a wooden palisade was built on the upper surface of the fortification. In the section of the so-called Marian walls, i.e. between bastions XII to XIX, this rampart was doubled (fausse braye), the inner rampart being higher than the outer one. In addition, on bastions XIV and XV, as on the New Town bastions XXII to XXV, elevated ground artillery emplacements (cavaliers) were established, providing a better view and shot into the foreground.


The gates of the new fortifications were placed more or less in the places of their medieval predecessors. The only exception was the Písek Gate, which (for the second time in its history) moved from Klárovo to the higher line of the Mariánské Walls.


The New Town bastion fortifications were successively built by the civil architects Carlo Antonio Lurago, his cousin Francesco Anselmo Lurago, Kryštof Dientzenhofer, Vít Kaňka and finally Kilián Ignác Dientzenhofer. The construction of the Vyšehrad Citadel was directed by Giuseppe Priami of Rovereto, Giovanni de Capauli, Agostino and Domenico Orsi. The Lesser Town fortifications were built by Giovanni Pieroni, his son Francisco Pieroni, Santini di Bossi, Giovanni Antonio Lurago, Martin Johann Eyck, Abraham Leuthner, Philippo Talduzzi and Bartolomeo Scotti.
The opinions of later fortification experts on the result of the work of these mostly famous architects are summarised by the Czech historian Vladimír Kupka in his book Prague Fortifications:


"...The Prague fortification was primarily built too simply, as it was basically (with a few exceptions) limited to a basic rampart of bastions and curtains, and therefore did not have the necessary depth of defence. The sporadic central elements of the fortifications (ravelins, pincers) were mainly intended only to protect the gates or curtains and therefore did not form any continuous central front in the ditch. Even on the outer edge of the counter-crusade, Prague's fortifications, with the exception of the covered way and the rallying points, did not abound in any external defensive elements that would have separated the siege front from the fortress and prevented direct shelling of the walls and the inner city. Perhaps only Vyšehrad can be evaluated as a full-fledged citadel with good tactical and technical characteristics, especially given the rather inaccessible terrain. Its location on the southern edge of Prague, however, greatly reduced its strategic value, because in the event of an enemy attack from a direction other than the south, the citadel became practically worthless for the defence of Prague, as it was very far from most of the buildings, so that its armament could not control Mala Strana, Hradčany, Prague Castle or the Old Town, and the New Town only partially..."


Sources:
- Vladimír Kupka: Prague Fortifications (Prague 2008)
- Andrej Romanyak: Prague as a Fortress (Prague 1989)
- Edgar T. Havránek: Unknown Prague I (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Disappeared Prague V. (Prague 1948)
- Václav Hlavsa, Jiří Vančura: Malá Strana (Prague 1983)
- Vilém Lorenc: New Town of Prague (Prague 1973)
- Josef Janáček: A Little History of Prague (Prague 1983)



Fortress Prague in 1816
Source: Jüttner's Trigonometric Plan of the Royal Capital of Prague (Prague 1816)
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Fortress Prague in war


According to experts, the Prague fortifications were already outdated and inadequate for the requirements of "modern" warfare at the time of their completion. This was confirmed in November 1741, when the Bavarian-French-Saxon army conquered Prague without much difficulty during the War of the Habsburg Succession. In the interest of objectivity, however, it should be noted that the Prague garrison at that time numbered less than 5,000 men (of which 2,300 were regular army soldiers), while the invaders had 50-60,000 soldiers at their disposal...

During their stay in Prague, the French built several forward fortifications at Petrin, Vitkov, Letna and especially improved the fortifications of the Vyšehrad Citadel, including the completion of its underground barracks.

In the summer of 1742, the Habsburg army of nearly 45,000 men began a regular siege of Prague, defended by a French garrison of 30,000 men. Due to the not very vigorous approach of the besiegers, the "outdated" Prague fortifications allowed the French to resist until December, when they managed (under circumstances that remain unclear to this day) to leave Prague and successfully retreat to Cheb. Before their retreat, they blew up the fortified Belvedere Summer Palace on Letná, thus helping to transfer the name to the Renaissance Royal Summer Palace in the gardens of Prague Castle, which still bears it today...


In September 1747, during the Second Silesian War, Prague's fortifications were put to the test by the Prussians. Their army of 70,000 men faced 17,000 men of the Prague garrison. After three days of shelling by heavy artillery, Prague capitulated, mainly at the insistence of the Prague townspeople, who bore the damage to their property heavily. The Prussians occupied the city, but already in November they cleared it again. When leaving, they tried to blow up the citadel of Vyšehrad, but this was prevented by the timely intervention of three men from Podskalí, who took the initiative to defuse the burning smouldering ghosts.


After the end of the wars for the Austrian inheritance, the fortress in Prague was abolished by decree of Empress Maria Theresa (30 April 1749) and since then, as Zdeněk Wirth writes, "...the fortifications were completely neglected, the ramparts, banquettes and traverses were collapsing, the reinforced parapets were getting cracks in the masonry and crumbling. The bastions were rented out to private individuals; thus, at the Poříčská Gate, the bastions were used by the guild of tanners for their frames, the sanytrnik Al. Balling had a factory there, the tanner Matouš Marbath dyed hides in a wooden shed in the XXV bastion and next to it he had a carousel, a beer bar and a house with a garden. With the permission of the provincial commander, Field Marshal Prince Lobkowicz, the fortification director, Engineer Major K. Cremeri silk mulberry plantations..."


The Prussians reappeared in front of Prague during the Seven Years' War. After the victorious Battle of Sterbohol (6 May 1757), their army of 100,000 men began the siege of Prague, defended by 42,000 soldiers. Prussian artillery caused heavy damage to the city, but after the lost battle of Kolín (18 June 1757) the siege was lifted and the Prussian army left Bohemia.



Sources:
- Vladimír Kupka: Prague Fortifications (Prague 2008)
- Andrej Romanyak: Prague as a Fortress (Prague 1989)
- Edgar T. Havránek: Unknown Prague I (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Disappeared Prague V. (Prague 1948)
- Václav Hlavsa, Jiří Vančura: Malá Strana (Prague 1983)
- Vilém Lorenc: New Town of Prague (Prague 1973)
- Josef Janáček: A Little History of Prague (Prague 1983)



The Siege of Prague by the Imperial Army in 1742 (section at Petrin and Pohořelec)
Source:
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Decline of the Prague Fortress


As a result of the development of military technology, especially artillery, even more sophisticated Czech bastion forts than Prague gradually became obsolete. For example, Hradec Králové (construction 1766-1789), Terezín(1780-1790) or Josefov (1780-1787). An attempt to solve this problem was to surround the existing fortress with a wreath of outposts (forts), thus creating the so-called fortress fortress. For example, in neighbouring Moravia this method was chosen for the reconstruction of the fortress Olomouc. The first proposal for the reconstruction of Prague into a fortress was made in 1827, but for financial reasons it was not realized...


In 1827-30, however, a park was created on the Prague walls from Poříčská to the Horse Gate in the form of a wide promenade and observation path, fluted with poplars and with shrub and flower patches on the bastions. And as the city continued to expand, so did the gradual relaxation of its fortress regime. Between 1831 and 1832, the Horse Gate was rebuilt to meet increasing traffic demands by punching another passage. In 1841-1842, in connection with the establishment of a new road through Vyšehrad and Pankrác to Tábor, the Vyšehrad Jerusalem Gate was walled up and replaced by the more permeable so-called Cihelna Gate. For the same reason, Vyšehrad's Leopold Gate was reopened. In 1844-1845, as part of the construction of the railway station (today's Masaryk railway station), the Railway Gate with six track passages was pierced in the walls...


The unstoppable decline of the Prague fortress was briefly halted by the revolutionary events of 1848. As part of their suppression, its last combat action became, paradoxically, a fight not against the external but against the internal enemy - i.e. the Prague population. In June 1848, the fortress artillery, subordinate to Field Marshal Prince Windischgrätz (whose wife had been accidentally shot by Prague rebels shortly before), forced Prague to surrender by the tried and tested method of destroying the property of peaceful townspeople.


Sources:
- Vladimír Kupka: Prague Fortifications (Prague 2008)
- Andrej Romanyak: Prague as a Fortress (Prague 1989)
- Edgar T. Havránek: Unknown Prague I (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Disappeared Prague V. (Prague 1948)
- Václav Hlavsa, Jiří Vančura: Malá Strana (Prague 1983)
- Vilém Lorenc: New Town of Prague (Prague 1973)
- Josef Janáček: A Little History of Prague (Prague 1983)



Fortress Prague during the 1848 Uprising
Source: School Atlas of Czechoslovak History (Prague 1959)
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After evaluating the experience from the battles against the Prague insurgents, some modifications were made to the existing fortifications, this time for their rear defence. In particular on Petřín (the construction of walls and fortresses protecting the "Hunger Wall" and the access to bastion No. III above Újezd), on Prague Castle, on bastion No. XIX above Klárov (which was rebuilt into a separate fortress) and on Vyšehrad, where a redan with an artillery battery was moved in front of bastion No. XXXVIII, intended exclusively for shelling the New Town.


In spite of this, in 1850-57 the first cafés were built on the New Town bastions (e.g. Viktoria between Nová and Konská brána), in 1858-59 a new gate was built on Poříčí with a new gate on Újezd in 1862. Architecturally, both gates had already completely lost their military function and their main purpose was still only to facilitate smoother police and economic control of the entrance to the city.


Sources:
- Vladimír Kupka: Prague Fortifications (Prague 2008)
- Andrej Romanyak: Prague as a Fortress (Prague 1989)
- Edgar T. Havránek: Unknown Prague I (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Disappeared Prague V. (Prague 1948)
- Václav Hlavsa, Jiří Vančura: Malá Strana (Prague 1983)
- Vilém Lorenc: New Town of Prague (Prague 1973)
- Josef Janáček: A Little History of Prague (Prague 1983)



Prague in 1858
Source: 1858 Kořistek's elevation plan of Prague
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The end of Prague Fortress

During the Prusso-Austrian War of 1866, Prague was again declared a fortress, but after the lost battle of Hradec Králové (3 July 1866) the military garrison cleared it and the city surrendered to the Prussian army without a fight. As a result of this last (though in this case not entirely culpable) failure of the Prague fortification, Emperor Franz Joseph I declared Prague an open city on 30 October 1866 and gave his consent to the demolition of the walls.

The final destruction of the Prague fortifications began on 20 July 1874 at Poříčí. By 1895 only a small section of the Gothic wall between Karlov and Vyšehrad remained from the fortifications of the New Town. The left-bank part was demolished in 1901, but only the Újezdská Gate (with the adjacent ravelin and bastions I and II) and Strahovská Gate were demolished. The Cadet School was built on the site of the right part of bastion XIV, the whole of bastion XV and the left part of bastion XVI. Further modifications in the area of the Mariánské Walls took place in 1923-1925, when most of the bastions were more or less covered by the filling in of ditches and partly built up with residential houses.

The only section that was not affected by the destruction of the Prague fortifications was the Vyšehrad citadel. Its handover to the Prague magistrate, which took place on 17 February 1911, finally ended the role of the Prague fortress in history…

Descriptions of Prague barracks and other military buildings can be found HERE

Sources:
- Vladimír Kupka: Prague Fortifications (Prague 2008)
- Andrej Romanyak: Prague as a Fortress (Prague 1989)
- Edgar T. Havránek: Unknown Prague I (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Disappeared Prague V. (Prague 1948)
- Václav Hlavsa, Jiří Vančura: Malá Strana (Prague 1983)
- Vilém Lorenc: New Town of Prague (Prague 1973)
- Josef Janáček: A Little History of Prague (Prague 1983)

New buildings on the site of the demolished fortifications at Újezd
Source: Hertig's Plan of Prague (Prague 1891)
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Construction bastionového fortification of the prague fortress was started around the year 1653 in prague's New Town and ended around the year 1730 fortifications of the Small Parties and Hradčany. Its basic articles have been sprinkled, bricks reinforced five-sided bastions, the united relatively long kurtinami. The basic supporting elements of the bastionového fortifications (e.g. raveliny) were from the field and financial reasons, used only a minimum (essentially only the front of some gates). Small Side and Hradcany protect 20 bastionů (I-XX). The new City protect the 12 bastionů (XXI-XXXII). The vyšehrad citadel consisted of 8 bastionů (XXXIII-XXXX). Bastions were marked with numbers and names of saints..
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Bastion I
Name: bastion (bastion) sv. Jana
GPS coordinates: 50° 4' 54.1044435" N, 14° 24' 26.9486046" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 45 m
- left heads: 67 m
- right face: 20 m
- right side: 20 m
- width (throat): 78 m
- depth: 47 m:
Current status: demolished
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion II
Name: bastion (bastion) sv. Jakub
GPS coordinates: 50° 4' 49.3457168" N, 14° 24' 21.3481522" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 39 m
- left heads: 94 m
- right face: 78 m
- right side: 47 m
- width (throat): 78 m
- depth: 110 m
Current status: demolished
Note: the bastion with two terraces on the right side.
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion III
Name: bastion (bastion) sv. Dominika
GPS coordinates: 50° 4' 48.8500085" N, 14° 24' 12.2715569" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 36 m
- left face: 84 m
- right face: 106 m
- right side: -
- width (throat): -
- depth: -
Current status: extant
Note: bastion (actually půlbastion) with four terraces on the left side is a right embedded in the slope of Petřín hill
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion IV
Name: bastion (bastion) sv. Karla
GPS coordinates: 50° 4' 50.3123437" N, 14° 23' 52.7665329" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 44 m
- left heads: 92 m
- right face: 88 m
- right side: 44 m
- width (throat): 116 m
- depth: 108 m
Current status: extant
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion
Name: bastion (bastion) sv. Lawrence
GPS coordinates: 50° 4' 55.033867" N, 14° 23' 42.2029209" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 44 m
- left heads: 88 m
- right face: 82 m
- right side: 44 m
- width (throat): 128 m
- depth: 108 m
Current status: extant
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion VI
Name: bastion (bastion) sv. Vojtěcha
GPS coordinates: 50° 4' 57.264463" N, 14° 23' 30.0171089" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 44 m
- left heads: 92 m
- the real heads: 92 m
- right side: 44 m
- width (throat): 124 m
- depth: 128 m
Current status: extant
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion VII
Name: bastion (bastion) sv. Norbert
GPS coordinates: 50° 5' 0.9077078" N, 14° 23' 19.2796898" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 45 m
- left heads: 87 m
- right face: 90 m
- right side: 44 m
- width (throat): 124 m
- depth: 124 m
Current status: extant
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion VIII
Name: bastion (bastion) sv. Elizabeth, Špitálský bastion (bastion)
GPS coordinates: 50° 5' 7.7726607" N, 14° 23' 13.0226326" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 43 m
- left heads: 96 m
- right face: 102
- right side: 43 m
- width (throat): 112 m
- depth: 117 m
Current status: extant
Note: the bastion with two terraces on the right side.
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion IX
Title: St. bastion (bastion), bastion (bastion) sv. Margaret's
GPS coordinates: 50° 5' 14.4019137" N, 14° 23' 11.3811207" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 44 m
- left heads: 92 m
- right face: 90 m
- right side: 46 m
- width (throat): 116 m
- depth: 117 m
Current status: demolished, in its place Zeměbranecké barracks.
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion X
Name: bastion (bastion) st. Francis Borgia
GPS coordinates: 50° 5' 23.8063423" N, 14° 23' 16.3635921" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 42 m
- left heads: 96 m
- right face: 96 m
- right side: 42 m
- width (throat): 164 m
- depth: 105 m
Current status: preserved including part of the vyzděného ditch
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion XI
Name: stone bastion (bastion), bastion (bastion) of St. Anne, Chance Star (Sternschanz)
GPS souřadnice: 50° 5' 32.3801572" N, 14° 23' 19.7624874" E
Dimensions:
- port side: 39 m
- port side: 87 m
- starboard side: 88 m
- starboard side: 40 m
- width (throat): 76 m
- depth: 100 m
Current status: left side and face preserved
Note: bastion with double firing line (fausse-braye).
Sources:¨
- Vladimír Kupka: Prague Fortifications (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague I (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric Plan of the Royal Capital of Prague (Prague 1816)
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Bastion XII
Name: bastion (bastion) of the Virgin Mary
GPS coordinates: 50° 5' 35.6881481" N, 14° 23' 28.5494041" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 43 m
- left face: 84 m
- right face: 98 m
- right side: 43 m
- width (throat): 87 m
- depth: 116 m
Current status: preserved right side
Note: the bastion with a double firing lines (fausse-bray)
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion XIII
Name: bastion (bastion) sv. Benedict
GPS coordinates: 50° 5' 36.6792941" N, 14° 23' 38.6302185" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 30 m
- left heads: 86 m
- the real heads: 85 m
- right side: 30 m
- width (throat): 123 m
- depth: 92 m
Current status: preserved with partially defective hips
Note: the bastion with a double firing lines (fausse-bray)
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion XIV
Name: bastion (bastion) sv. Václav
GPS coordinates: 50° 5' 39.0208539" N, 14° 23' 49.8890591" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 30 m
- left heads: 80 m
- right face: 96 m
- right side: 34 m
- width (throat): 152 m
- depth: 82 m
Current status: demolished
Note: the bastion with a double firing lines (fausse-bray)
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion XV
Name: bastion (bastion) of All saints
GPS coordinates: 50° 5' 40.941157" N, 14° 24' 2.1907425" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 36 m
- left face: 98 m
- the real heads: 95 m
- right side: 35 m
- width (throat): 166 m
- depth: 83 m
Current status: preserved remnants of
Note: the bastion with a double firing lines (fausse-bray)
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion XVI
Name: bastion (bastion) sv. Jiří
GPS coordinates: 50° 5' 43.7162669" N, 14° 24' 15.091095" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 34 m
- left heads: 97 m
- right face: 84 m
- right shoulder: 33 m
- width (throat): 166 m
- depth: 80 m
Current status: lists the rest of the right side of the
Note: the bastion with a double firing lines (fausse-bray)
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion XVII
Name: bastion (bastion) sv. Ludmila
GPS coordinates: 50° 5' 45.3763559" N, 14° 24' 26.8327332" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 34 m
- left face: 100 m
- right face: 98 m
- right side: 36 m
- width (throat): 128 m
- depth: 100 m
Current status: extant
Note: the bastion with a double firing lines (fausse-bray)
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion no XVIII
Name: bastion (bastion) of st. Thomas
GPS coordinates: 50° 5' 41.7340501" N, 14° 24' 36.4886856" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 36 m
- left face: 106 m
- right face: 102 m
- right side: 30 m
- width (throat): 118 m
- depth: 108 m
Current status: extant
Note: the bastion with a double firing lines (fausse-bray)
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion no XIX
Name: bastion (bastion) of st. mary Magdalene
GPS coordinates: 50° 5' 35.8368204" N, 14° 24' 41.4325333" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 32 m
- left heads: 88 m
- right face: 104 m
- right side: 39 m
- width (throat): 145 m
- depth: 102 m
Current status: extant
Note: the bastion with a double firing lines (fausse-bray). The year 1926 was out shot out of a cannon announced noon.
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion XX
Name: bastion (bastion) st. Ignatius
GPS coordinates: 50° 5' 27.957014" N, 14° 24' 41.1235428" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 43 m
- left heads: 132 m
- right face: 78 m
- right side: -
- width (throat): 177 m
- depth: 88 m
Current status: demolished
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion XXI
Name: bastion (bastion) of st. John the Baptist
GPS coordinates: 50° 5' 30.6951636" N, 14° 26' 13.067522" E
Dimensions:
- left side: -
- left heads: 88 m
- the real heads: 80 m
- right side: 42 m
- width (throat): 88 m
- depth: 96 m
Current status: demolished
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion XXII
Name: bastion (bastion) of st. Christopher
GPS coordinates: 50° 5' 23.409855" N, 14° 26' 19.0349007" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 42
- left face: 82 m
- right face: 82 m
- right side: 42 m
- width (throat): 86 m
- depth: 102 m
Current status: demolished
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion XXIII
Name: bastion (bastion) sv. Nicholas
GPS coordinates: 50° 5' 13.8567137" N, 14° 26' 7.7181244" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 32 m
- left heads: 72 m
- the real heads: 64 m
- right side: 89 m
- width (throat): 86 m
- depth: 97 m
Current status: demolished
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion XXIV
Name: bastion (bastion) sv. Peter and Paul
GPS coordinates: 50° 5' 3.0267025" N, 14° 26' 0.1864815" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 34 m
- left heads: 63 m
- the real heads: 63 m
- right side: 30 m
- width (throat): 94 m
- depth: 83 m
Current status: demolished
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion XXV
Name: bastion (bastion) sv. Henry
GPS coordinates: 50° 4' 53.0634832" N, 14° 25' 56.6717148" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 42 m
- left heads: 67 m
- right face: 60 m
- right side: 42 m
- width (throat): 99 m
- depth: 89 m
Current status: demolished
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion XXVI
Name: bastion (bastion) sv. Stephen
GPS coordinates: 50° 4' 44.115923" N, 14° 25' 50.2215385" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 42 m
- left heads: 67 m
- right face: 60 m
- right side: 42 m
- width (throat): 99 m
- depth: 89 m
Current status: demolished
Note: the left flank of the bastion went through the passage the Horse gate.
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion XXVII
Name: bastion (bastion) of st. Francis Xavier
GPS coordinates: 50° 4' 31.5488986" N, 14° 25' 46.0887909" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 44 m
- left heads: 72 m
- the real heads: 76 m
- right side: 28 m
- width (throat): 136 m
- depth: 76 m
Current status: demolished
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion XXVIII
Name: bastion (bastion) of st. Bartholomew
GPS coordinates: 50° 4' 22.4266984" N, 14° 25' 49.5649338" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 30 m
- left face: 106 m
- the real heads: 115 m
- right side: 28 m
- width (throat): 162 m
- depth: 107 m
Current status: demolished
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion XXIX
Name: bastion (bastion) sv. Kateřiny
GPS coordinates: 50° 4' 12.3495771" N, 14° 25' 51.4961243" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 29 m
- left heads: 97 m
- right face: 96 m
- right side: 25 m
- width (throat): 136 m
- depth: 97 m
Current status: demolished
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion XXX
Name: bastion (bastion) Karlov, bastion (bastion) sv. of Charles the Great,
GPS coordinates: 50° 4' 7.8500083" N, 14° 25' 48.4834671" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 22 m
- left face: 78 m
- right face: 78 m
- right side: 22 m
- width (throat): 102 m
- depth: 75 m
Current status: preserved right side and face.
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion XXXI
Name: bastion (bastion) By the wayside, wayside, st. Peter
GPS coordinates: 50° 4' 3.9825166" N, 14° 25' 35.3513718" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 15 m
- the left obverse: 59 m
- real obverse: 58 m
- right side: 10 m
- width (throat): 125 m
- depth: 25 m
Current status: extant
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion XXXII
Name:
GPS coordinates: 50° 4' 0.4124474" N, 14° 25' 28.0128479" E
Dimensions:
- left side: -
- left heads: -
- the real heads: -
- right side: -
- width (throat): 360 m
- depth: -
Current status: extant
Note: it's not actually about the bastion, but on a modified stretch of the gothic wall of the 14. century.
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Bastion XXXIII
Name: bastion (bastion) of st. Bernard, st. Paul, st. Leopold.
GPS coordinates: 50° 3' 54.3753916" N, 14° 25' 16.4063931" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 40
- left heads: 73
- the real heads: 69
- right side: 24
- width (throat): 95
- depth: 80
Current status: extant
Note: in the left face of the bastion is kasematní warehouse (gorlice serves).
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- The situational plan of vyšehrad citadel (1889).
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Bastion XXXIV
Name: bastion (bastion) of st. Paul, st. Roch's.
GPS coordinates: 50° 3' 49.2307113" N, 14° 25' 20.8481312" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 25
- left heads: 75
- the real heads: 65
- right side: 25
- width (throat): 65
- depth: 75
Current status: extant
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- The situational plan of vyšehrad citadel (1889).
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Bastion XXXV
Name: bastion (bastion) sv. Peter, st Agnes.
GPS coordinates: 50° 3' 45.610748" N, 14° 25' 14.996624" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 39
- left heads: 69
- right face: 90
- right side: 39
- width (throat): 75
- depth: 85
Current status: extant
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- The situational plan of vyšehrad citadel (1889).
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Bastion XXXVI
Name: bastion (bastion) of st. Ludmila.
GPS coordinates: 50° 3' 47.5447104" N, 14° 25' 3.5253525" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 36
- left heads: 95
- the real heads: 24
- right side: 2
- width (throat): -
- depth: -
Current status: extant
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- The situational plan of vyšehrad citadel (1889).
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Bastion XXXVII
Name: bastion (bastion) sv. Václav, st. Linhart.
GPS coordinates: 50° 3' 49.2059173" N, 14° 24' 59.6243477" E
Dimensions:
- left hip: 35
- left heads: -
- the real heads: -
- right side: 30
- width (throat): -
- depth: -
Current status: extant
Note: irregular square bastion, covering the remnants of the former royal palace.
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- The situational plan of vyšehrad citadel (1889).
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Bastion XXXVIII
Name: bastion (bastion) of st. Leopold, st. Joseph, st. Paul.
GPS coordinates: 50° 3' 56.8918902" N, 14° 25' 2.405262" E
Dimensions:
- left side: -
- left heads: 17
- the real heads: 101
- right side: 36
- width (throat): 75
- depth: 65
Current status: extant
Note: půlbastion.
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- The situational plan of vyšehrad citadel (1889).
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Bastion XXXIX
Name: -
GPS coordinates: 50° 3' 43.4536105" N, 14° 25' 28.9398193" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 44
- left heads: 79
- real obverse: 46
- right side: 17
- width (throat): -
- depth: -
Current status: extant
Note: půlbastion (part of the forward of a tong stronghold)
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- The situational plan of vyšehrad citadel (1889).
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Bastion XXXX
Name: -
GPS coordinates: 50° 3' 40.651771" N, 14° 25' 26.3906479" E
Dimensions:
- left side: 13
- left heads: 48
- right face: 104
- right side: 21
- width (throat): -
- depth: -
Current status: extant
Note: půlbastion (part of the forward of a tong stronghold)
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- The situational plan of vyšehrad citadel (1889).
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Part of the prague bastionového fortifications were in the period from 1650 to the end of the 19th. century in addition to bastionů (bastions), the connecting kurtin (walls, mounds) and the forward fortifications (ravelinů, tambourů, etc.) also the city gates. With only one exception (Horse gate) were placed in kurtinách connecting the two adjacent bastions.

The gates generally served not only military purposes, but also the police and the fiscal needs of the city administration, whose authorities in the gates to check the documents of incoming and levied the tax on imported goods. The gate on the night were closed and for the passage or transit in the hours of the night he paid a special fee, from which they were (excluding soldiers) freed only the postal couriers and religious persons. Who wanted at that time to leave the city, he had to have the permission of the prague military command....
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Újezdská gate
Other names: Kartouzská, Košířská, Střelcovská, Zbraslavska
GPS coordinates: 50° 4' 50.9815439" N, 14° 24' 16.4429283" E
Construction: built 1694-1701 on the site of the original gothic gate. Due to the small permeability of the was 1862 bricked up and replaced a few meters further west posed tříportálovou building in the style of tudor gothic.
Current status: both gates were demolished in the years 1891-1892.
Note: part of the older gate was an advance ravelin, which was going through the road.
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Missing In Prague. (Prague 1948)
- Franz Anton Leonard Herget: Plan Of Prague (1791)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Strahov gate
Other names: Imperial
GPS coordinates: 50° 5'11.70"N 14°23'13.80"E
Construction: 1665-1727
Current status: the right-hand part was demolished in 1897, preserved to stay the left-hand side of the passage and adjacent the building of the armed services of the scribe.
Note: replaced the original Strahov gate of the year 1619, which lay further north and was year 1665 backfilled during the construction of the kurtiny between the bastions VIII and IX.
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Missing In Prague. (Prague 1948)
- Franz Anton Leonard Herget: Plan Of Prague (1791)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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písecká brána
Other names: Bruská, Charles
GPS coordinates: 50° 5' 42.8242721" N, 14° 24' 21.1550331" E
Construction: 1719-1721
Current status: preserved
Note: the Original Pisecka (Bruská) the gate stood in The street on the Small Side. Her eponymous successor was the year 1588 built on his accomplishments, in today's street Under the Sander. Both the gates were named according to adjacent settlements On Sands (or according to the stream Brusnice, which in these places vtékal to the Vltava river). The beginning of the 18th. century, during the reign of Charles VI., was this the gate lifted, and in the context of the construction of the bastionového fortification was built on the current site.
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Missing In Prague. (Prague 1948)
- Franz Anton Leonard Herget: Plan Of Prague (1791)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric plan of the royal Capital city of Prague (Prague 1816).
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Poříčská gate
Other names: Špitálská
GPS coordinates: 50° 5' 26.6932379" N, 14° 26' 13.3185768" E
Construction: built 1697-1718 south of the original gothic gate. The year 1858 was demolished and in 1859 replaced by a building in the style of tudor gothic.
Current status: demolished in 1874
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Missing In Prague. (Prague 1948)
- Franz Anton Leonard Herget: Plan Of Prague (1791).
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Railway gate
Other names: -
GPS coordinates: 50° 5' 16.6074779" N, 14° 26' 8.9927101" E
Construction: built in 1845. Rather than the construction of the gate it was a break of twelve resealable rail transits (of which six would serve merely as a blind college) in kurtině between the bastions XXII and XXIII, in the framework of the building station of the state railways (today Masaryk).
Current status: demolished in 1874
Note:
Sources:
- Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague Even. (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Missing In Prague. (Prague 1948).
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New Gate
Other names: Horská, Šibeniční, Vídeňská
GPS souřadnice: 50° 5' 8.2930972" N, 14° 26' 6.7139053" E
Construction: built 1654-1666 to the south of the original Gothic Mountain Gate.
Current state: demolished in 1875
Notes:
Sources:
- Vladimír Kupka: Prague Fortifications (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague I. (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Disappeared Prague V. (Prague 1948)
- Franz Anton Leonard Herget: Plan of Prague (1791)
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Horse Gate
Other names:
GPS coordinates:50°04'45.20 "N 14°25'50.51 "E
Construction: built in 1652 with a right-angled curved passage to the left flank of bastion XXIV. In 1831, to improve the communication function of the gate, a second passage was cut, this time directly through the curtain wall between bastions XXV and XXVI.
Current state: demolished in 1876
Note: the only Prague gate whose passage went through the side of the bastion.
Sources:
- Vladimír Kupka: Prague Fortifications (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. D. Havránek: Unknown Prague I (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Disappeared Prague V. (Prague 1948)
- Franz Anton Leonard Herget: Plan of Prague (1791)
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Rye Gate
Other names:
GPS coordinates: 50° 4' 37.8201317" N, 14° 25' 45.5094337" E
Construction: built 1679-1694
Current state: demolished in 1875
Note: part of the older gateway was a projecting ravelin through which the road passed.

Sources:
- Vladimír Kupka: Prague Fortifications (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Prague's Fortifications: Unknown Prague I. (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Disappeared Prague V. (Prague 1948)
- Franz Anton Leonard Herget: Plan of Prague (1791)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric Plan of the Royal Capital of Prague (Prague 1816)
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Blind Gate
Other names.
GPS souřadnice: 50° 4' 31.9950808" N, 14° 25' 46.7647076" E
Construction: built in the 14th century, it was partially walled off in 1694 after the completion of this section of the bastion fortification, leading only to the area between the Gothic and the new Baroque wall where the army stores were located. After 1874 it was integrated into the Vozataj barracks.
Current state: demolished in 1897 together with the Vozataj barracks.
Remark:
Sources:
- Vladimír Kupka: Prague Fortifications (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague I. (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Disappeared Prague V. (Prague 1948)
- Franz Anton Leonard Herget: Plan of Prague (1791)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric Plan of the Royal Capital of Prague (Prague 1816)
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Tabor Gate
Other names: Nová, Vyšehradská
GPS souřadnice: 50° 3' 42.2262617" N, 14° 25' 27.0858765" E
Construction: built 1655-1656 (according to some sources shortly after 1639)
Current state: preserved
Notes:
Sources:
- Vladimír Kupka: Prague Fortifications (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague I. (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Disappeared Prague V. (Prague 1948)
- Situation plan of Vyšehrad Citadel (1889)
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Leopold's Gate
Other names: Nová, Francouzská
GPS souřadnice: 50° 3' 47.4207391" N, 14° 25' 18.2217121" E
Construction: built 1653-1670
Current state: preserved
Note: named "Leopoldova" after Emperor Leopold I, the name "Francouzská" dates from the French occupation of Prague (1741-1742), when - as part of the French reconstruction of Vyšehrad - the coat of arms of the French general David de Clari de Perdiguier was placed on it.
Sources:
- Vladimír Kupka: Prague Fortifications (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague I (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Disappeared Prague V. (Prague 1948)
- Situation plan of Vyšehrad Citadel (1889)
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Jerusalem Gate
Other names.
GPS souřadnice: 50° 3' 54.5241511" N, 14° 25' 13.2006168" E
Construction: established on the site of the former Gothic gate of the same name. Due to low throughput, it was walled up in 1841 and replaced by the Cihelna Gate.
Current state: preserved (walled)
Remark:
Sources:
- Vladimír Kupka: Prague Fortifications (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague I. (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Disappeared Prague V. (Prague 1948)
- Josef Jüttner: Trigonometric Plan of the Royal Capital of Prague (Prague 1816)
- Situation Plan of the Vyšehrad Citadel (1889)
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Brick Gate
Other names.
GPS souřadnice: 50° 3' 55.032412" N, 14° 25' 8.9713097" E
Construction: the gate was built in 1841-1842 in the middle of the courtyard between bastions XXXIV and XXXVIII. It included a forward ravelin through which the road passed.
Current state: preserved
Notes:
Sources:
- Vladimír Kupka: Prague Fortifications (Prague 2008)
- Edgar Th. Havránek: Unknown Prague I. (Prague 1939)
- Zdeněk Wirth: Disappeared Prague V. (Prague 1948)
- Situation plan of Vyšehrad Citadel (1889)
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Military commanders of Prague from the year 1622 to 1918

1622-30 colonel, from the year 1623, major general, from 1625 generalissimo Albrecht Wenceslaus Eusebius, count of Waldstein, duke frýdlantský, commanding general in Bohemia
1630-31 field marshal Don Balthasar de Marradas y Vigue, the commanding general in the Czech republic
1631-32 of Prague occupied by the Saxons (colonel Lorenz Hofkirch)
1631-58 field marshal Don Balthasar de Marradas y Vigue, commanding general in Bohemia
1638-39 colonel Ladislav Burian, count of Wallenstein, the commanding general in the Czech republic
1639-57 field marshal Rudolf count Colloredo-Waldsee, the grand prior of the order of the knights of malta, the commanding general in the Czech republic
1649-52 major general the marquis Innocenzo Conti di Pola e Guadagnola, commander of Prague
1652-57 colonel, from 24. October 1652 major-general Johann baron von der Croon (also sometimes written de la Corona), commander of Prague
1657-65 major general, from the year 1665 the field podmaršál Johann baron von der Croon, commanding general in Bohemia
1665-71 major general Wolfgang Friedrich baron Cob von Neuding auf Schallendorf und Terskenitz, commanding general in Bohemia
1671-90 major general, from the year 1672 field podmaršál, from the year 1682 field master-at-arms of Johann Franz baron von Raiserstein, commanding general in Bohemia
1690-91 general of the cavalry Krystof Vilem Harant baron of Polžic and Bezdružic, commanding general in Bohemia
1691-06 field master-at-arms, from the year 1694, field marshal Wilhelm Johann Anton count von und zu Daun, commanding general in Bohemia
1706-16 field podmaršál, from the year 1708 field master-at-arms Václav Hroznata earl of Gutštejna, commanding general in Bohemia
1716-50 field master-at-arms, from the year 1723, field marshal Johann Damian Philipp baron von Sickingen, the commanding general in the Czech republic
1730-53 field master-at-arms Ottokar Franz Jacob count Starhemberg, commanding general in Bohemia
1735-41 major general, from 16. November 1753 field podmaršál, from the year 1755 field master-at-arms Karl Hermann baron, from the year 1759 the earl O'Gilvy (whether or not written Ogilvy), commanding general in Bohemia
1741-42 Prague occupied by the French, Bavarians and Saxons (lieutenant-general count von Bayern, after the marshal Frangois Maria count de Broglie, and eventually marshal Charles Louis August Fouquet, comte de Belle-Isle)
1745-44 field master-at-arms, Karl Hermann, count O'Gilvy, commanding general in Bohemia
1744 major general Ferdinand Philipp count Harsch (also written Harrsch), commander of Prague
1744 Prague occupied by the Prussians (lieutenant general Gottfried Emanuel von Einsiedel)
1744-46 field master-at-arms, from the year 1745 field marshal Karl Hermann, count O'Gilvy, commanding general in Bohemia
1744-45 field podmaršál Cajetan Franz Xaver, count Kolowrat-Krakowsky from Březnice, commander of Prague
1745-46 major general Friedrich baron von Wetzel, commander of Prague
1746 field master-at-arms Franz Wenzel count Wallis, the commander of Prague
1746-51 field marshal Jan Jiří Kristián prince Lobkowitz, commanding general in Bohemia
1746-51 field marshal Karl Hermann, count O'Gilvy, commander of Prague
1751-57 field master-at-arms, from the year 1754 field marshal Maximilian Ulysses count Browne, baron de Camus and Mountany, commanding general in Bohemia
1757-59 field podmaršál Friedrich baron von Wetzel, commander of Prague
1757-60 field master-at-arms Ferdinand Philipp count Harsch, commanding general in Bohemia
1760-65 field podmaršál Johann Karl Partini baron von Ahaus und Emsbüren, commander of Prague
1765-65 field marshal Friedrich Michael, riesling falckrabě, duke zu Zweibrucken-Birkenfeld, commanding general in Bohemia
1765-78 field master-at-arms, from the year 1778 field marshal Friedrich Georg Heinrich count of Wied-Runkle, commanding general in Bohemia
1778-79 field master-at-arms Karl Reinhard baron von Elrichshausen, commanding general in Bohemia
1779-85 field master-at-arms Joseph earl Siskovics, commanding general in Bohemia
1784-89 field master-at-arms Michael Johann Ignaz count Wallis, the commanding general in the Czech republic
1789-91 field podmaršál Ludwig baron, from the year 1791 the count Brechainville, commanding general in Bohemia
1791-95 field podmaršál Philipp baron von Elmpt, commander of Prague
1791-92 field master-at-arms Friedrich Wilhehm prince zu Hohenlohe-Kirchberg, the commanding general in the Czech republic
1792-95 field podmaršál Wenzel Joseph count Thun-Hohenstein, commanding general in Bohemia
1795-98 field marshal Blasius Columban baron von Bender, the commanding general in the Czech republic
1796-97 field master-at-arms Franz Joseph count Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau, representing the commanding general in the Czech republic
1797-98, 1800 field marshal archduke Karl Ludwig of Habsburg, governor and captain general of the Kingdom of bohemia
1798-1816 field podmaršál Karl Joseph, baron von Sterndahl, commander of Prague
1801-03 general of the cavalry Michael Friedrich Benedikt baron von Melas, the commanding general in the Czech republic
1803-16 field master-at-arms, from the year 1809 field marshal Johann Nepomuk Karl, count Kollowrat-Krakowsky, commanding general in Bohemia
1805 field podmaršál Anton Ulrich baron von Mylius, representing the commanding general in the Czech republic
1805 field podmaršál Christoph baron von Lattermann, representing the commanding general in the Czech republic
1809-10 general of cavalry Johann Sigismund count von Rieseh, representing the commanding general in the Czech republic
1816-17 field podmaršál Ignaz Buol von Bernberg, commander of Prague
1816-23 field master-at-arms Vincenz Maria, count Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky, commanding general in Bohemia
1817-20 major general, from 13. December 1817 field podmaršál Ignaz baron von Novak, commander of Prague
1820-25 field podmaršál Joseph knight Reinwaldt von Waldegg, commander of Prague
1823-29 field master-at-arms Ignaz count Gyulai von Máros-Németh und Nádaska, commanding general in Bohemia
1825-35 field podmaršál Franz knight Marziani von Sacile, commander of Prague
1829-33 field podmaršál, from the year 1830 field master-at-arms Aloys Gonzaga, prince von und zu Liechtenstein, the commanding general in the Czech republic
1835-39 field podmaršál Simon ritter von Fitzgerald, commander of Prague
1839-48 field podmaršál Johann baron von Paumgartten, commander of Prague
1833-40 field podmaršál Emanuel, count Mensdorff-Pouilly, commanding general in Bohemia
1840-48 field podmaršál Alfred prince von Windischgrátz, count zu Egloffs und Siggen, baron auf Waldstein und im Thale, commanding general in Bohemia
1848-50 field podmaršál, from the year 1849 field master-at-arms Franz Joseph count Rhevenhuller-Metsch, the grand prior of the order of the knights of malta, the commanding general in the Czech republic
1850-51 field podmaršál, from 14. September 1850 the general of cavalry archduke Albrecht Habsburg, the commanding general in the Czech republic
1850-51 field podmaršál Adolf Schútbe von Warensberg, commander of Prague
1851-53 field podmaršál Friedrich lantkrabě Fůrstenberg, commander of Prague
1851-66 field podmaršál, since 1861, general of the cavalry Eduard, count Clam-Gallas, commanding general in Bohemia
1853-58 field podmaršál Joseph von Fiedler, commander of Prague
1859 field podmaršál Karl baron von Mertens, commander of Prague
1860-61 field podmaršál Franz ritter von Hauslaub, commander of Prague
1861-66 field podmaršál Andor Melczer von Rellemes, commander of Prague
1866-70 field podmaršál, since 1867, general of the cavalry Wilhelm
Albrecht, prince of Montenuovo, the commanding general in the Czech republic
1866 Prague was occupied by the Prussians (major general Adolf Louis von Rosenberg-Gruszczynski, after generálporucík Albert Theodor Erich)
1866-71 colonel Joseph Sauer, commander of Prague
1870-71 field podmaršál Johann Karl, count von Huyn, the commanding general in the Czech republic
1871 -79 colonel Franz Hauchka von Treuenfels, commander of Prague
1871-74 field podmaršál, since 1875, the general of cavalry Alexander baron von Koller, commanding general in Bohemia
1874-81 field master-at-arms Joseph baron Philippovic von Philippsberg, commanding general in Bohemia
1878 field podmaršál Eduard baron von Litzelhofen, representing the commanding general in the Czech republic
1879-85 colonel Ludwig Brunswik von Korompa, commander of Prague
1881-82 field podmaršál, since 1881 field master-at-arms Eduard baron von Litzelhofen, commanding general in Bohemia
1882 field podmaršál Gustav baron von Konig, commanding general in Bohemia
1882-89 field master-at-arms Joseph baron Philippovic von Philippsberg, commanding general in Bohemia, from the year 1883, the commander of the prague VIII army corps
1885-96 colonel Wilhelm Reiche von Thuerecht, commander of Prague
1896-1900 colonel Ludwig von Glotz, commander of Prague
1889-99 field master-at-arms Philipp, count Grünne, commander of the prague VIII army corps
1900-05 colonel Karl Winter von Lorscheim, commander of Prague
1899-1904 field master-at-arms Ludwig Fabini, commander of the prague VIII army corps
1905-09 colonel Jaroslaw Wenzlik, the commander of Prague
1904-08 field podmaršál, since 1905, the field master-at-arms Hubert knight, from 1907 baron von Czibulka, commander of the prague VIII. army corps
1909-14 lieutenant colonel Emanuel Weber, commander of Prague
1908-11 general of infantry Albert von Koller, the commander of the prague VIII. army corps
1911-14 field podmaršál, from 1912 the general of cavalry Arthur baron Giesl von Gieslingen, the commander of the prague VIII army corps
1914-16 field podmaršál Simon Schwerdtner von Schwerdtburg, commanding general in Bohemia
1916 field podmaršál Karl baron von Lukas, commanding general in Bohemia
1916-18 field podmaršál Paul von Kestrzanek, commanding general in Bohemia
1918 field podmaršál Eduard Zanantoni, the commander of the prague garrison

Source:
Vladimir Kupka: fortifications Prague (Prague 2008).
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