Contregarde am Kienlesberg (Werk IX)
Contregarde am Kienlesberg (Werk IX) stands in Ulm, Germany, as part of the Bundesfestung Ulm. Built between 1843 and 1852, it protected the Kienlesbergbastion and the surrounding Blauniederung. Olt von Hügel designed this defensive work with a complex wall system, a dry ditch, and the pedestrian gate known as Ruhetaltor.
Local people called the arrangement “die sieben Hügele”, or “the seven hills”. Much of the fortification disappeared during twentieth-century construction of Kienlesbergstraße and the later federal highway, while the remaining escarpe reveals its steep defensive slope. A few inaccessible rock casemates also survive beside the railway line.
The Ruhetaltor and fragments of the escarpe preserve a tangible glimpse of nineteenth-century military engineering.
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