Fortress
Trekroner Fort
🇩🇰 Denmark
Trekroner Søfort (literally Three Crowns Sea Fortress) is a sea fort at the entrance to the Copenhagen harbour. From 1713 until after World War I, Trekroner Fort was part of the fortifications of Copenhagen.
The original location of Trekroner Fort was a few hundred meters north of the current one. In 1713, three old ships of the line were sunk to form the basis for a battery. One of the ships was called Trekroner, and she gave her name to the fort.
Construction of the current fort began in 1787. The fort was an important part of the Danish line of defense during the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801. The fort also was engaged during the British attack on Copenhagen in 1807.
Text adapted from “Trekroner Fort” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Trekroner Fort ranks #1,892 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #23 of the 38 mapped in Denmark. See how Denmark compares in the castle statistics.
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