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The Upper Fortifications in Nysa currently form a line with a length of 1,200 meters and stretch from Krasickiego Street to Orląt Lwowskich Street. Some of them can be viewed by taking a walk along the walking and cycling path connecting bastions and curtains with shelters, galleries, and casemates. Along the route, there are benches and elements of small architecture, chess stations, an insect hotel, and a sound forest of posts with descriptions and images of birds nesting in the forts.
The fortifications were created in the second half of the 18th century from the transformation of individual defenses of the highland foreground. In the second half of the 19th century, they were expanded and modernized, during which – apart from reinforcement – casemates on the counterscarp and shelters on the ramparts were expanded, while at the rear of the embankments, the fortress road with warehouses was rebuilt. The entirety of the fortifications was surrounded by a wide dry moat protected from the main rampart and counterscarp galleries located in the counter-slope in front of the bastions. Entrances to counter-mine galleries led from the counterscarp galleries.
From the city side, along the entire embankment, runs a fortress road, planted with doors on both sides, serving the fortifications and numerous gunpowder and ammunition magazines rising on both of its sides.
Practical information:
From the inside, only in the morning on the second Sunday of May and on August 15. The facility can be visited at another time after prior arrangement with the parish of St. Bartholomew the Apostle in Głogówek, tel. +48 77 406 92 05, parafia@glogovia.pl.
Free admission.
Sightseeing time: 30 minutes.
Difficult access directly to the facility. You can park your car on the shoulder of national road no. 40 or on a side road at the foot of the mountain.
