Poland · 19th century
Fort IV ranks #8,251 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #343 of the 397 mapped in Poland. Founded c. 1880, one of 705 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. 11 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Toruń, 4 km away. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.
Fort IV of the Toruń Fortress (today called Fort IV Yorck-Żółkiewski) is an originally Prussian artillery fort from the 1880s. It was initially named after the Prussian field marshal Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg and in 1926 received the name of the Polish commander Stanisław Żółkiewski.
Machine-translated from “Fort IV der Festung in Toruń” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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