In 4 days
Experience firefighting with cannons and a weapons demonstration with a Prussian soldier.
A Prussian chief gunner accompanies you up to the Fuchs bastion and presents a weapons demonstration to interested visitors.He will explain how to handle a sabre and bayonet gun, how they are used in battle and their effects.Here you will learn what made an "old warhorse", that as a soldier you had to have good teeth and "something on the pan".At the end of the demonstration, the soldier loads and fires the flintlock rifle in battle.
Meeting point: 15.00 h, fountain monument at the upper castle courtyard
Cost: included in admission to the fortress
Registration: not required
Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz
Festung Ehrenbreitstein
56077 Koblenz
DE
Phone: (+49) 0261 66 75 40 00
Fax: (+49) 0261 66 75 26 99
E-mail: informationen.festungehrenbreitstein@gdke.rlp.de
Website: www.tor-zum-welterbe.de
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