It was better than at Fort III. Pieces of shelters visible on both sides of the road. On one - on private property, so I took the photo from a distance - from behind the fence. On the drughe side of the road there was a little more to see, well, up close, but you'd need a machete to tear through the nettles and various other such weeds to see more. I didn't try to go inside. The place didn't look frequented.
26.08.2014The forts in Piatnica - three powerful forts connected by a system of ramparts and moats, are a fragment of the 19th century fortifications of the Lomza Fortress. This is the best preserved and most developedbridgehead on the Narew River, where 3 forts are connected by underground passages. There is also talk of a hitherto unexplored tunnel running under the Narew River and connecting the forts with the Capuchin Fathers' monastery. The forts were the main point of resistance for Polish troops during the Battle of Lomza, which was one of the battles of the 1939 September campaign. FORT II (on the road from Lomza to Jedwabne) - the largest and most regular of the three forts. There are as many as three anti-scarp caponiers. It formed a formidable defensive complex, located on the dominant high hill of the moraine, which was 55 meters higher than the bank of the nearby flowing Narew River. The neck rampart and the moat counter-scarp at the eastern shoulder of the fort were completely destroyed. Exposed from the ground is one of the pens of the counter escarpment. The neck barracks are preserved along with the neck caponier. The barracks have distorted window openings and secondarily pierced gate openings.
31.07.2014
