Modlin Fortress

Modlin Fortress is certainly one of the largest 19th century fortresses in Poland. It is positioned within the metropolis of Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki in district Modlin at the Narew River, some 50 kilometers north of Warsaw. It turned into renamed Novogeorgievsk after it was captured with the aid of the Russians in 1813. The strategic significance of the area restrained with the aid of the Vistula, Bug, Wkra and Narew was recognized to numerous armies at some point of the ages. However, it turned into not until 1656 that an everlasting fortified position was built there with the aid of the Swedish armies in the course of The Deluge.

The known Bugskansen became a celebrity-formed fortified military camp placed probable close to the confluence of the Narew and the Vistula, at the so called Swedish Island. The camp become additionally guarding a wooden bridge over the Vistula prior to the battle of Zakroczym and served as the principle deliver depot of the Swedish army in the course of the battle of Warsaw of July 1656. After the Swedish defeat the citadel became demolished in 1660 and the vicinity remained unfortified for more or less 150 years.