Monuments

THE GATE OF NORTH- also called gate Plock, or the Duchy of Warsaw was built between 1809 - 1811, erecting earth embankment according to the plans of General Chasseloupe - Laubat. The gate was built as a two-storey building with a central entrance with vaulted arched openings defended artillery on the left and right, from the outside to the gate leading high embankment. It was at that time the only gate in the fortress and connected by way of Warsaw and New Manor Jabłonna with a path towards Plock called Route Płock. A very interesting and unique architectural element is still preserved stone keystone-shaped trapezoidal placed in the arc cemented on the outer gate, where relief is plowing the Duchy of Warsaw with the keys to the fortress in the claws and the inscription "Gate of the North" and the year of creation 1811. Gateway fulfill its functions until the great expansion of the fortress in the years 1832 -1841 then the internal circuit formed in the next two gates of communication and enhance liquidity of the Gate of North was walled up and became the third gunnery station bore artillery positioned centrally in the light of the walled-up gate. Also fulfilled the role reportedly guardhouse or jail for the soldiers do not apply to rules of life in the fortress. North Gate next Redoubt of Napoleon and powder magazine inside the bastion No. III is the oldest monument of brick in the fortress of Modlin remember the birth of her. The object is now generally available for tourists.