RAVELIN, THE NEWSLETTER FOR THE PATRIMONIAL FORTIFICATIONS
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Published by the IFC for their members and partners 4 editions per year
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EDITORIAL
The IFC is pleased to send you the second issue of its Newsletter, 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 in March, June, September and December.
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WORLD 2023
This calendar is drawn up by the CDSG on the basis of information provided by our members on their planned activities. It is regularly updated and will be included in the first section of our Newsletter
Apr 15-28, Morocco, Eccofort, Study tour
Apr 27 – 29, Ulm (Germany), Interfest, Annual Meeting
May 3 – 9, Portland, Maine (USA), annual conference (Coast Defense Study Group)
Jun 7 – 10, Cherbourg (France), Annual Congress (Association Vauban)
Sept 9-16, Northern Poland, Strudy Tour (Coast Defense Study Group)
Sept 10-13, Kufstien (Austria), Annual Meeting (Deutsche Gesselschaft für Festungsforschung)
Sept 13 - 18, Oahu, Hawaii,Tour, Valor Tours
Sept 18 - 22, American Samoa,Tour,Valor Tours
Sept 15 - 18,Bodensee, Limmat, Rhine,Tour
Assn Saint-Maurice d' Etudes Militaries
Sept – Amsterdam (or Rome), Study Tour (Eccofort)
Sept – To be announced, Member Day/AGM (Fortress Study Group)
Sept -St. Augustine, Florida,Annual Conference, Council on America's Military Past
Sept. Liege (Belgium), Study Tour (Association Vauban)
Oct 20-23 – Chatham (UK), Annual Conference,Fortress Study Group
Oct 20-23 – Chatham (UK), annual Meeting International Fortress Council
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IFC NEWS
Portugal
We receive a message from the President of AFAC, Mrs Margerida Valla which inform us that after the last meeting of Associacao Portuguesa dos Amigos dos Castelos (APAC) Administration on Wednesday 8th of February, all the members decided to become an observatory member of IFC and hope participate to then next General Assembly in October. We are very glad to welcome this Society which work for the preservation of the patrimonial fortifications in Portugal.
More information about APC on their website: https://amigosdoscastelos.pt/
Other news
Oct 20 to 23 th, General Assembly of IFC at Chatham, England (U.K.). International Fortress Council Annual Meeting, organization : John Harris, chairman@fsgfort.org and information about IFC with Jeroen van der Werf, secretariat@internetionalfortresscouncil.org
2023 projects in progress :
1 - Redesign of the website, study on the use of 3D for the multilingual dictionary in conjunction with the Menno von Coehoorn foundation,
2 - Development of partnerships,
3 - Continued welcoming of new members (Quebec, Greece, Poland, South Korea, …)
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INFORMATION FROM OUR MEMBERS
theses informations were 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.
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AUSTRIA : ÖSTERREICHISCHE GESSELLSCHAFT FÜR FESTUNGSFORSCHUNG
In the last December, the Society created on December 13, 2007 celebrated its fifteenth anniversary
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
http://www.kuk-fortification.net/
BELGIUM : SIMON STEVIN VLAAMS VESTINGBOUWKUNDIG CENTRUM www.simonstevin.org
CROATIA : NACIONALNA UDRAGA ZA FORTIFIKACIJE (NUF) www.nuf.hr
CZECH REPUBLIK : CZECH ASSOCIATION FOR MILITARY HISTORY (CAMH) Úvodem - KVH Praha (kvh-praha.cz)
FRANCE : ASSOCIATION VAUBAN
December, publication of our last issue with the number 44 of the « Lettre des Oisivetés », the bi-annual publication of the Association intended for its members and partners. At the summary of the publication, we have a relation of the siege of Namur (1692), the operation Jubilee (Dieppe 1942), The Swedish colony of St Barthelemy, The Corean fortifications, The Siege of Bergen op Zoom (1747), The Swiss Guards in France and the chapter 5 of the relation of Historical Panorama of French Fortifications in North America (1600-1758) and some information of the life of the Society. The number 45 will be published for the Congress of Cherbourg.
May 23th, commemoration ceremony of the memory of Marshal de Vauban under the Dôme des Invalides with the military authorities, the descendants of Vauban and the members of the association. Ste Therese Chapel under the Dôme at 12 pm (French time).
June 6 to 10th Association Vauban’s congress at Cherbourg (Normandy) and General Assembly on the 7th of June
Attribution of the Vauban Association Prize. Visit the Cherbourg Fortifications, the fortifications of English Normandy Islands (Guernsey and Alderney) with their fortifications completed during the Last WWII by the German Occupation Army, Vauban fortifications at St Vaast la Hougue, Tatihou and St Marcouf
Sept : 2023 Study tour : Liege (Belgium) and Maastricht, information on contact@association-vauban.org
In preparation, co-edition with the Historical Service of the Army (SHD) for the acts of the Vauban conference « Les Vaubans de l’Empereur’ (Invalides sept 25th 2021) and the conference of The Emperor Fortresses at the Vincennes Castle on the May 16th (video relation on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yJcc03W-BI)
www.association-vauban.org
GERMANY : DEUTSCHE GESSELLSCHAFT FÜR FESTUNGFORSCHUNG
Sept 7-10th: 42th Annual Meeting at Kufstein (Austria), Conference Theme: The Power of the Elements - Fire and Water in Fortresses. Contact and information: Andres Kupka, president, akupka@juelich.de
www.festungsforschung.de
Juelich (Juliers in French)
Napoleon had major works carried out to strengthen the defensive position of Juelich and its citadel, in particular with the construction of a bridgehead on the Roer. On the occasion of major reconstruction work on the road bridge damaged by the 2021 floods, elements of Napoleon's sluice bridge have been found updated.
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FOLLOWING
ITALY : RETE DELLE FORTIFICAZIONI www.fortedibard.it
LUXEMBURG : FRËNN VUN DER FESTUNGSGESCHICH LËTZEBUERG : www.ffgl.lu
March 29 th The annual general meeting of FFGL will take place in Luxembourg.
Between April first and July 15 th : FFGL will organise public visits of the undergrounds of Fort Lambert (built by Vauban in 1685), Fort Bourbon (built by Vauban in 1685) and the „Aqua-Tunnel“ (former nuclear air-raid shelter project under the city)
September : After close coordination with Association Vauban, FFGL Luxembourg will join the exploration excursion in Belgium (Liège, Namur, Huy, Dinant, Maastricht and Brussels)
Robert Wagner (president of FFGL) is writing a book about the history of Fort Lambert, one of the three additional French Forts being added by Vauban after the successful siege in 1684 against the Spanish garrison.
FFGL will also act as a partner in 2025 in the organisation of the „LUGA“ Luxembourg Urban Garden exhibition Homepage - LUGA. At the start of the 20th century the French company Mercier was passing due to the political context through Luxembourg for bottling the champagne and selling it into Prussia. Some of the casemates belonging to Fort Du Moulin (dismantled after 1867) as well as new carved huge underground rooms inside the sand stone rocks nearby the railway station were used as storing capacities. To remember this a Special Crémant cuvée “LUGA” will be stored in the ancient “casemates” which will be shown to the public during dedicated visits.
MALTA : FONDAZZJONI WIRT ARTNA (Malta Heritage Trust) : www.wirtartna.org (candidate member)
NETHERLANDS : MENNO VON COEHOORN
April 01 : Visit the Fortress of Bourtange, inscription 6-8 weeks before the visit
May 13th : Dutch Defense Grebbelinie near Veenendaal (OvB) inscription 6-8 weeks before the date
Sept 9th : Cold War fortifications close Den Bosch and Vught (OvB), inscription 6-8 weeks before the date
Last parution of the nr 4/2022 of the Revue Saillant published in December, a publication of MvC for its members and partners.
www.coehoorn.nl
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FOLLOWING
SWITZERLAND : ASSOCIATION SAINT MAURICE D’ETUDES MILITAIRES (ASMEM) www.asmem.ch
March 25th, Fribourg, Miséricorde University, General Assembly
June 9th, Visit in Geneve, Maison Tavel (Relief Plan)
Sep 15 to 18th Bodensee, Limmat, Rhine Tour, defences of the Easter-Northern and Norther boundary of the Switzerland. Association Saint-Maurice d' Etudes Militaries. Information with Col. EMG Schalbetter president@www.asmem.ch
Dec 4th, Route du Signal, Champex, St. Barbe day
UNITED KINGDOM : FORTRESS STUDY GROUP
April 15 to 23th, A tour of Morocco is being organised by Valentina and Hans-Rudolf Neumann for April. The maximum number is fifteen, so expressions of interest should be made as soon as possible to: hrv.neumann@t-online.de .Details available on request to John Harris.
The number Fort 49 and the Magazine Casemate Number 126 are Published in January (available to members in the resources section (for the members of FSG only) of the website.
- In the nr 49 of FORT, you can read articles about The Coastal Defences of the Delaware Bay during World War Two (Part 2 3), The Origins of the Bastion Castle, the Imperial Defence in the Nineteenth Century as Exemplified by Two Island Batteries in the Harbour of Bombay (Mumbai), The New Dutch Waterline, The Ottoman ravelin of the Venetian citadel of Rethymno, in Crete.
- At the summary of the last Casemate you have an evocation on fortresses in France (Pignerolle Castle close Angers), Montenegro (Šipčanik aircraft bunker, Kotor and the old town and Fort San Giovanni, Herceg Novi withnFort Mare Fortress) and Denmark/Sweden (relation on the Study Tour organised in 2022 with the CDSG) and precisions about the lunettes and Fausse Bray
https://www.fortressstudygroup.org/
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA : COAST DEFENSE STUDY GROUP
May 5th The CDSG Board of Directors is happy to announced that the CDSG Annual Business Meeting will be held in the Armory Room of the Portland Regency Hotel & Spa located at 20 Milk St, Portland, ME 04101 at 7:00pm (EST). The board urges all members to attend to hear annual reports from the board and committees and to discuss plans for the coming years
September 9 to 18th, Northern Poland : Berlin, crossing the Oder River to Poland to visit night near the Oder-Warthe-Bogen Stellung (the heart of the German 'East Wall' with bunkers, enormous underground communication tunnels of this extraordinary defensive complex), Gdansk (fort of Posen, coast defences of the Gdansk Bay area, including the naval museum), on Hela Peninsula : a Third Reich proving ground and a Soviet nuclear warhead storage complex, Swinoujscie with some Prussian forts, IIIrd Reich fortifications and Soviet batteries. Information: Terry McGovern, tcmcgovern@att.net
October 20-23 th, FSG Annual conference, responsible John Harris.
The publication of the winter issue of the CDSG Newsletter is available on the association's website (https://cdsg.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/CDSGNews223.pdf). It’s a very interesting relation about the Study Tour 2022 in Sweden with various historical and cold War fortifications in this country
Coast Defense Journal Volume 37 is being published in 2023 (order available on the association’s website)
https://cdsg.org/
FSG Webinar programme and recordings
The up to date programme of future webinars is on the website events page the following is subject to change.
15 Mar 23 - 19th century defences of the Shannon Estuary, Ireland - Ciaran McDonnell
And the next conferences (join the FSG Organization to obtain the zoom codes for the next dates :
05 Apr 23 - Weapons of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery - Doug Knight
19 Apr 23 - Dutch Southern Frontier/Wellington Barrier - Dennis van Nieuwenhuijzen
03 May 23 - ‘Fieldworks and forts: the defensive architecture of Tyrone's Rebellion, 1593-1603' - Jim O’Neill
17 May 23 - tbc
07 June - Portugal Pt 2 - Charles Blackwood
21 June 23 - Woodland Fort - Keith Phillips
05 July 23 - Freshwater Redoubt - Rik Smith
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Ravelin, the newsletter of the International Fortress Council, Editorial Comitee : IFC Chairman (Andreas Kupka) ; Vice Chairman (Marc Gayda) ; General secretary (Jereon an der Werf) and the redactor of the IFC/CDSG calendar (Terry Mc Govern)
Mariaplaats 51, 3511LM Utrecht, The Netherlands -
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