Netherlands Fortress Museum

The Netherlands Fortress Museum is positioned within the town of Naarden, in The Netherlands. The Museum turned into hooked up in 1955 in the Turfpoort Bastion, one of the six bastions that deliver the walled town its exclusive megastar shape. During World War II, allied bombers returning to Great Britain from bombing missions used it as a marker. The fortifications themselves, including the bastions, date to the duration 1575 to 1585, while King Philip II of Spain ordered them built.

The bastion has an arrow-head shape with five points. The partitions include two meters of layers of brick. Casemates constructed into the city partitions close to the slim base of the arrow head contained weapons that authorized the defenders to fire along the primary moat. In the location with the aid of the lower proper hand flank of the bastion there may be a gunpowder testing pole, which gunners within the 17th and 18th Centuries used to check the excellent of the gunpowder they obtained. To the proper facet of the bastion there is a water postern. Next to it's miles the bastion's strength room. Near the end of the bastion there may be a mortar casemate with quarters for the crews, and a duplicate 29 cm mortar.