RAVELIN, THE NEWSLETTER FOR THE PATRIMONIAL FORTIFICATIONS

2024- Number 008 (SEPTEMBER)

Published by the IFC for their members and partners 4 editions per year

EDITORIAL

 

The IFC is pleased to send you the last issue of its Newsletter “Ravelin”, a publication to keep you informed of its activity and that of its members who work for the protection, conservation and enhancement of our heritage. fortified, witnesses of our history. Our Newsletter (4 issues per year) is published at the end of March, June, September and December. “Ravelin” gives you information on the actions of the IFC as well as member associations. The dissemination of “Ravelin” prepared by the IFC Board of Directors is provided by the national association members. If you would like this newsletter to also be distributed to a new contact whom you would like to raise awareness of the issues of safeguarding and enhancing fortified heritage, please contact the editorial team by providing the email addresses of your contacts

 

VICE CHAIRMAN’S WORD

 

Dear readers,

 The IFC has made a significant contribution to strengthening exchanges between our Associations. Similarly, a better flow of information between us bears fruit. Thus, several members of the DGF, the FFGL or MvC participate in the trips of the Vauban Association Congresses, our friends from the DGF held their annual Congress in Luxembourg with the help of the FFGL and, last year during our General Assembly in Chatham, our members from the FSG discovered with our colleagues the heritage of the Thames while holding their annual meeting.

 In addition, these exchanges between members of different associations and countries are always enriching and allow them to discover often innovative uses and solutions. This proves, if it were needed, the importance of the circulation of information and the interest of sharing our practices. Our meeting in Namur during our General Assembly in October with our friends from Simon Stevin will allow us to move forward further and, with our future website, which is currently being renovated, to develop our cooperation.

 This Newsletter is yours and your contribution to its enrichment is essential. Feel free to use it to share your experiences with us

 

Marc Gayda.

 

WORLD 2024

This calendar is drawn up by the CDSG based on information provided by our members on their planned activities. It is regularly updated and will be included in the first section of our Newsletter

. October 8 -12 November 2024  -  APAC organizes a course focuses on the urban evolution of Lisbon

. Oct 13-18; Balearic Islands, Association Vauban study tour, contact@association-vauban.org

. Oct 18 – March 2025 23th, Paris, Cité de l’Architecture (Trocadéro), Philip Prost exhibition contact@association-vauban.org

. Oct 25-27, Namur Belgium, International Fortress Council, Annual Meeting Jeroen van der Werf, secretariat@internationalfortesscouncil.org

. Dec 29 - 9 January 2025- Visiting Sri Lanka. APAC https://amigosdoscastelos.pt/  

. Jan 14-15, Paris, Porte de Versailles, “Museum Connection” (annual exhibition for patrimonial sites and museums)

. Feb. 8-23, South India, Eccofort Study Tour

 

IFC.  NEWS

INFORMATIONS

Oct 23 to 27 th, General Assembly of IFC at Namur (Belgium). International Fortress Council Annual Meeting, organised by Philippe Bragard and Luc Olyslager,

Next Ravelin Newsletter published on the end of December 2024

 

2024-2025 projects in progress :

1 - Redesign of the website (engaged), study on the use of 3D for the multilingual dictionary in conjunction with the Menno von Coehoorn foundation, we decided to have a Project Group with our members of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Festungsforschung (Andreas Kupka), Menno von Coehoorn (Jeroen van der Werf), Simon Stevin (Luc Olyslager), Association Vauban (Marc Gayda) and Fortress Study Group (Dave Basset).

2 - Continued welcoming of new members.

3- IFC participates in the revitalization of the Wellington Barrier project.

If you would like to contribute information from your association to the newsletter, the editors (marc.gayda@yahoo.fr ) would be very pleased. We are currently working on a renewal of the IFC website and we hope to go online for the beginning of the next year.

 

http://www.internationalfortresscouncil.org/

INFORMATIONS FROM OUR MEMBERS

These informations was collected from the elements transmitted by the associations or mentioned on their websites. When we have no new information on recent or future news, only the references of the website are mentioned.

AUSTRIA : ÖSTERREICHISCHE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR FESTUNGSFORSCHUNG (ÖeGF)

Projects and Cooperations:

Project „Written in the Landscape“ (Wil) (Universität Bozen) https://www.culturalheritage.unibz.it/written-in-the-landscape/

Architectural project for the flat roof waterproofing and protection of window and door openings in fort no. 41a "Mydlniki", Kraków

 

Neuigkeiten / News | Österreichische Gesellschaft für Festungsforschung Austrian Society for Fortification Research (kuk-fortification.net)

 

BELGIUM : SIMON STEVIN VLAAMS VESTINGBOUWKUNDIG CENTRUM (SSVc)  www.simonstevin.org

Simon Stevin will be receive the IFC delegation during the General Assembly 2024 in Namur

 

CROATIA : NACIONALNA UDRAGA ZA FORTIFIKACIJE (NUF) www.nuf.hr

CZECH REPUBLIK : CZECH ASSOCIATION FOR MILITARY HISTORY (CAMH) KVH Praha (kvh-praha.cz)

 

FRANCE : ASSOCIATION VAUBAN (AV)

Publications :

  • Oisivetés: “ La Lettre des Oisivetés” Journal of the Society (2 éditions per year in May and December), Nr 46 December 2023, Nr 47 May 2024, (next edition with Nr 48 in December 2024. Each publication had 64 pages.
  • Newsletter send by Internet to all our members and our partners (31 letters from January 23 to December with 452 informations and 21 from January 2024 with 398 informations to this September)
  • Dossier for the annual congress in METZ in 2024, and visit some fortifications around this city included some fortifications Vauban (visit the city of Longwy at the norther border), the XIXè century (Moselstellung with the Wagner Feste close Metz and Seré de Rivières forts) and the XXè (Maginot line sites).
  • Dossier for the study tour in Spain (Balearic Islands trip with visit to Mallorca and Menorca) organised in October 2024.

 

2024, Study Tour Balearic Islands, 13th-18th Oct

Visit the site of Majorca and the fortifications around the place.

Visit some Palma fortifications, San carlos fort, Belver Castle and coastal fortifications,

Tranfert to Menorca, Port Mahon, Mola fort (with Vicker Battery), Malborough fort, city of Ciudadella and sites of coastal fortifications

 

Relationship with the Plan Relief Museum (MPR)

Mrs Isabelle Warmoes was designed as acting curator of the Musée des Plans-Reliefs in the Hôtel des Invalides. The exhibition “Les Alpes, une frontière” (the Alps, a border ?) is extended until the end of 2024

 

“La Mémoire vive” (RAM), Exhibition Philip Prost at Architecture City, Paris, Cité de l’Architecture (Trocadéro) Oct 3th- March 25th

Philippe Prost, (administrator of AV), winner of the Architecture National Great Prize in 2022, a specialist in the restoration of bastioned fortifications, invites us t-o dive into the "making of the project" where documents, samples and prototypes illustrate the collective experience of working on the existing heritage, carried out for more than 30 years by the architect and his workshop.

 

2025 Elaboration

. January, opening of our Documentation Center (consulting after “rendez vous” with a responsible of the board -use the mail address on contact) Provision to our members of the documentary database of works and publications of our documentation centre will be disponible.

. March : Vauban Memorial Day,

. June : Annual Congress  (The site was decided during the last General Assembly : Marseille)

. September : Annual study Tour

 

Save the date : 2025 October 4 and 5TH BELFORT

The International Fortification Forum will be organize by La Caponnière. The program of these days will be announced. (http://www.caponniere90.fr/ -  bureau.caponniere@gmail.com 

 

https://www.association-vauban.org/  , mel adress contact@association-vauban.org

 

GERMANY : DEUTSCHE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR FESTUNGFORSCHUNG (DGF) https://www.festungsforschung.de/startseite/

The next DGF conference will take place from 20-22 September 2024 at the invitation of colleagues from the FFGL in Luxembourg. The conference theme was "En miniature: fortresses in model form".

The next Congress will be in september 2025 in Germany at Stade (Northern Germany) with visit some forts (e.a. Forts Grauerort and Kugelbacke. The conference theme will be : « The coastal fortifications on the Baltic Sea and North Sea ».

 

ITALY : RETE DELLE FORTIFICAZIONI

Forte di Bard :  (https://www.fortedibard.it/)

Dec 7 to January 2025 6th :

Third edition of Christmas Lights at the Fort of Bard – Christmas Lights at the Fort of Bard, the immersive 360° show consisting of sounds and lights in the great Piazza d'Armi of the fortress. The square will be immersed in a sparkling and surreal atmosphere to celebrate the magic of the Christmas holidays with the special video mapping effects that will be projected on the facades in a new and unprecedented setting that will give unique emotions. Every day to 5 :30 pm to the closure of the Fort

 

Forte di Bramafan  (https://www.fortebramafam.it/)

Interesting place (fortifications and artillery museum), reopened; at the end of October to reopen on the next June 2025.The fort is open every Sundays during the October month and close at the end of the month.

 

Forte di Vinadio (https://www.fortedivinadio.com/)

The fort close at the end of October to reopen on Spring 2025.

Sunday 11, 10h00 am – 7 pm (National Families Day)

Saturday 24, 2 :30 pm to 7pm and Sunday 25, 10h am to 7 pm (Pecora Sambucana Fair)

 

Turin, museo di Pietro Micca

Note the visits to the countermine galleries are by reservation at the Museo Pietro Micca (closed on Mondays)

 

https://www.fortedibard.it/fr/

https://retefortificazioni.com/

https://fortinrete.it/

 

LUXEMBURG : FRËNN VUN DER FESTUNGSGESCHICH LËTZEBUERG : (FFGL) www.ffgl.lu

Activities

„A l’assaut du Kirchberg“ : Free guided tours offered by the MNHA/M3E of the casemates of Fort Olizy, the surroundings of Fort Niedergrünwald, the gate of the "Hiel", Fort Obergrünwald as well as the model of the old fortress city in the "Three Acorns" Museum (Fort Thüngen).

„Visite cuvée Millésimé LUGA“ :  An event as part of the LUGA preliminary programme "Sowing in 2023, harvesting in 2025" organised in the run-up to the main exhibition and in close collaboration with the association Frënn vun der Festungsgeschicht Lëtzebuerg, the „Institut Viti-Vinicole“ and the GOERE Group

Novembre 2024

Décembre 2024

 

More informations : https//luga.lu/mise-en-casemates-de-la-cuvee-millesime-cremant-luga-2025/   or https://luga.lu/visite-exclusive-cuvee-millesimee-luga-au-coeur-des-casemates/

 

SOUTH KOREA – GYEONGGI CULTURAL FOUNDATION (GGCF) - ggcf.kr |GyeongGi Provincial Museum opened in 1996 with the objective of preparing for the future by highlighting and passing down the history of GyeongGi-do and the traditions of its culture. Because of the museum’s dedication to the collection and preservation of artifacts, academic research, and exhibitions and education programs, it has steadily grown to become a favorite museum of local residents. GyeongGi Provincial Museum is now a place where visitors can enjoy learning about GyeongGi-do’s history and culture through its rich content. The museum also seeks to demonstrate the value and significance of GyeongGi-do and Korean culture within the world and to present a blueprint for future culture by discovering the historic identity of GyeongGi-do. SWITZERLAND : ASSOCIATION SAINT MAURICE D’ETUDES MILITAIRES (ASMEM) https://www.asmem.ch/

. Theme Day. June 21, 6 am to 8 pm,: Les troupes jurassiennes et les ouvrages de la Br Fr3 (the Jura troops and the works of the BR FR 3), in French

. Study Tour : september 12 (from 6 am) to 16 (8 pm), Luxemburg, Belgium, Netherland, the Battle of the Bulge, the fortified belt of Liège, the lock of the Albert Canal and the bastions of the United Provinces

 

UNITED KINGDOM : FORTRESS STUDY GROUP

FSG Members Annual Meeting,

FSG Webinar, next conferences. All the sessions starter at 8 p.m. (London Time)

The webinars are organized by the Fortress Study Group in conjunction with the Palmerston Forts Society and the Ordnance Society and the recordings are for the benefit of the members of those societies. The links should not be further distributed without permission as the content is copyright of the author and other bodies including the National Archives.

02 Oct 24 - The WW I defence of West-Brabant - David Ross

16 Oct 24 - Comparison of American and British Empire coast defense during the Victorian era - Gordon Bliss CDSG

06 Nov 24 - East Anglian anti-invasion defences in the Great War - Dave Thurlow

20 Nov 24 - Recent findings at Fort Gilkicker - Lewis Sharp

04 Dec 24 - The logistics of a 19th century siege which uses Ciudad Rodrigo in 1812 to explain the scale and complexity of the operation - Dr Mark Thompson

 

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Siege Warfare Conference, Derby

November 2 at 10 am.

Project Redsand aims to restore a Maunsell Army Fort

The ambitious volunteer led project to restore one of the WW2 heavy anti-aircraft forts in the Thames Estuary

 

https://www.fortressstudygroup.org/

 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA : COAST DEFENSE STUDY GROUP (CDSG)

The CDSG Publications committee produced excellent quarterly Coast Defense Journal and CDSG Newsletter for our members during this period containing a grand total of 525 pages. Our Editorial Committee is seeking articles for submission to the Journal. Our publisher, Mark Berhow, is the chairman of this committee and main point of contact for the Journal. The Coast Defense Journal includes articles on seacoast fortifications from around the world, so we would like to receive articles on coastal works from members of the various associations that make up the IFC

The CDSG Tour committee conducts special tours on an occasion basis to sites outside the United States. We held a tour to the former coast defenses of Tampa, Florida in May 2024. We are in long-range discussions with the FSG on a tour to Bermuda. We welcome members of IFC organizations to attend.

https://cdsg.org/

 
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