From 19.05.2024 until the 27.10.2024
Der Festungskanonier
Festung Ehrenbreitstein, 56077 Koblenz
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