Fort Lunet

This fortification was built in the years 1837-1839 to guard both the Donge River and the adjacent Breda-Gorinchem street road. This road was built by Emperor Napoleon, hence the name Keizersdijk and Keizersveer. The lunette was disbanded as a defensive structure in 1919. When the street road was relocated in the 1930s, the eastern moat was largely filled in. The lunette has in the salient (sharp point of a bulwark) a bombproof powder magazine with five gun cellars to its right and four to its left, in the throat (opening in a bulwark) a bombproof building without ground cover for alloy and storage.