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Plan of Nyen Fortress. 1698.
1 p. Manuscript. Illuminated. Paper, Indian ink. Watercolour.
450,5?577 mm. Swedish.
Scale [1:], graphic scale in Swedish alnars and Reenland ruths.
North-oriented.
Decoration:
the graphic scales are on a ruler, rendered along the right side
of the plot, hung on a ribbon.
Territory:
a part of the Neva and place of the confluence of its right tributary
Black Stream (now Okhta R.) On the formed in such a way cape is
Nyen Fortress.
Shown: Nyen
Fortress with commandant’s room, officer and soldier barracks,
drill-ground, schools, two hospitals, (one of them for the wounded),
latrines, customs-house, provision stores, pastor’s house,
ammunition depots and so on, with Roman letters. The explication
(Dessein öfwer Nÿen), is placed at the foot to the right.
Description of the plan was worked out in Stockholm on 17 of February
1698. The plan is signed by Quartermaster-General Stewart on 6
of August 1698.
Annotation: The
designed plan was signed in Stockholm on 17 of February 1698.
The town of Nyen remained unfortified to that time. Then a project
of full reconstruction of the fortified point on the Neva, which
had to incorporate radical reconstruction of Nyenskans and its
Crownwork, was offered. In place of three-bastion Crownwork a
six-bastion fortress was to be made. A redoubt in front of the
fortress was designed. Nyenskans as well was meant to be reconstructed,
turning it into three-bastion redoubt.
Literature:
Munte, Lappo-Danilevsky, Hipping.
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