Poland · 19th century
Fort Tscha-M ranks #8,506 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #367 of the 397 mapped in Poland. Founded c. 1890, one of 705 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. 43 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Warsaw, 4 km away. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.
Fort Tscha-M of Warsaw Fortress (also called Fort "Rakowiec") was one of the smaller forts of the inner fort ring of Warsaw and served to control the road to Kraków. The former fort is located south-west of the Warsaw old town.
The original Russian designation was Щ-M. In Polish it is also referred to merely as a defensive point ("Punkt oporu"). The designation Tscha-M (the adjoining fort Tscha lay to the west, fort M to the east) indicates that it was one of three works subsequently inserted into the existing defensive line. The designations of the Warsaw forts used on German military maps are derived from the German transcription of the Russian letters. In this, Tscha (the transcription of Щ is shch) was distinguished from Tsche (Ч, ch) only by the appended vowel. In Polish the fort was named after the nearby locality of Rakowiec, later incorporated into Warsaw. The streets Władysława Korotyńskiego, Waclawa Sierpinskiego and Szczepan Grzeszczyka surround the park grounds.
Machine-translated from “Fort Tscha-M der Festung Warschau” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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