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Fort Wawer

Poland · 19th century

Fort Wawer in Poland
Photo: Wistula · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Fort Wawer ranks #8,739 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #386 of the 397 mapped in Poland. Founded c. 1890, one of 705 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. 45 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Warsaw, 9 km away. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.

Fort Wawer (also called Fort "Suvorov") was one of the 17 forts of the Warsaw Fortress. It lay on the eastern side of the Vistula and was built in the 1890s in the area of the then locality of Wawer (now a district of Warsaw). The fort no longer exists; today a woodland park stands in its place.

Machine-translated from “Fort Wawer” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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