Carlsten fortress lay-out

Carlsten fortress lay-out

1. Eastern rampart and King's road
2. Eastern bastion
3. Gate #23
4. Artillery barracks of 1786.
5. Powder magazine of 1832
6. Eastern attack gate
7. Lower prison yard
8. Upper prison yard
9. King's gates
10. Commandant's house (officer's barracks) of 1775.
11. Big courtyard
12. Fortress church
13. Western (Water) gate
14. Western axillary (flanker) battery
15. Gate #7 (exit to the Upper courtyard)
16. Upper courtyard of 1680s
17. Main wall
18. Southern donjon (battery)
19. Bastion Minerva
20. Southern flanker battery
21. Smithy
22. Northern flanker battery

A. Open space
B. Walls, towers, bastions and batteries
C. Moats and ponds with water
D. Buildings