Barbakán

BARBICAN

A defensive building used at the late gothic fortifications located in front of the gate of the city or the castle. The most commonly circular tip or polygonálního plan, in which lomila the access path. The gate was protected from direct postřelováním the enemy. Barbican was in some cases used as a habitat of the artillery, whose task it was to flankování adjacent parts of the trench. From the use of barbakanu was abandoned in the introduction of bastionového system fortifying..
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