Stallgården Bastion, Akershus fortress, Oslo
Usually tourists enter the fortress through the main entrance from the Counterescaret Park, but I took a walk along The piperwyck Bay wharves and started exploring the fortress from its southern tip. Here, the fortress is entered by a gate next to the munks tower (Munks tårnet).
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After passing through the gate, I found myself on the Bastion of Stallgården, which translates as"fortified farm". In the 16th century, it was a farmyard, where there was a bakery, a stable, barns for food, and a Laundry. In the 17th century was built powerfuly house for the grooms and servants, kennels, shed for the geese.
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There was also a well (Brunnenhaus), the main source of water supply for the castle. Since the fortress is built on a monolithic rock, it was very difficult to get to the water. To do this, they used the following technology: they built a fire in the pit, which heated the stone, then poured it with cold water, the stone cracked, the debris was removed. This was repeated countless times. In the same way, a passage was made underground, connecting the well with the citadel and the tower of Munch. The tower was built in 1559 separately from the citadel and served as a watchtower, then a water tower.
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In 1743-44, the outbuildings were demolished, stone walls were erected around the perimeter of the courtyard, and a platform for an artillery battery was filled in on the inner side of the walls. Now there are three 12-pounder bronze cannons, cast in the 18th century.
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On one of the cannons, you can see the trace of fragments of an aerial bomb left after the RAID on the fortress of the German aviation on April 9, 1940.
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From the height of the artillery battery opens a panorama of the water surface of Oslo fjord, covered with green Islands.
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On the East side Stargarden protects wall with loopholes, which connects the Citadel with the tower of Munch. Thus, the farmyard in the 18th century turned into a powerful defensive structure. A gate in the wall leads to the Bastion of Prince Charles.
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