Tourist routes in Poznań: Fortress and memorials
Poznan Citadel / Andrzej Monczak / Agencja Gazeta
Poznan Citadel
The area of Winiary Fort, called Citadel, is situated next to the cemeteries on their south-side. It is one of the most significant war cemeteries in Great Poland. In different times there were the following cemeteries on the area of the Citadel: St. Adalbert of Prague Parish Graveyard, Old Garrison Cemetery, Cemetery of Honour, Garrison Cemetery, German Soldiers' Section, Soviet Soldiers' Section, Orthodox Cemetery, Common Wealth Soldiers' Cemetery, Polish Soldiers' Cemetery.
On the area of the park there are numerous monuments and memorials. Remains of the fortress are worth seeing: ravelin, redoubt, bastion and stockades of small and big lock. the Citadel houses two museums as well.
The Weaponry Museum has its seat in an original bunker. There are exhibited military items, documents, photographs connected with the battle of Poznan, February 1945. Various types of Nazi and Soviet arms can be seen there e.g. semi-automatic rifles, artillery missiles, as well as a collection of weapons and ammunition found in the area of the Citadel while planting the park. The greatest attraction is probably the open air exhibition of military equipment, including a Russian medium tank T-34 and a unique heavy tank IS-2 of the first lines produced in 1944, a rocket launcher BM-13N "Katiusha" with the American underbody of Studebaker truck, a ZiS-5/12 vehicle with the Amercian anti-aircraft searchlight Z-15-4/3 and three ZIS-151 vehicle, with a radar each one. The oldest exhibits come from the 19th century.
Poznan Army Museum is situated in the casemate corridor, on the west side of the stockade of Small Lock.