The fortress is part of a ring of fortresses around Antwerpen. It was build from 1878 until 1893 in order to protect the city from bombardments with a new kind of artillery. In 1914 the fortress was needed for the first time. It proved a disaster, the German guns shot the fortress into little pieces, out of the range of the Belgian guns.
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