Map of fort Sint Andries

Title Leupe: Plan van het fort St. Andries, soo als gelegen is in den jare 1756 in Rio Barbice.

This collective map by the military engineer David Willem Carel Hattinga shows, to the left, the actual situation at Fort Sint Andries in 1756, which instantly reveals that evidently none of Osterlin’s plans for further fortification of the battery had been implemented in the past years.

Of the original ten cannon (Hartsinck even reports twelve) with which Sint Andries was equipped in 1746, only two remained in use some ten years later but even then ‘without protection’ and virtually nothing remained of the wall.

The right side of the map includes two ground plans of the old main building of the redoubt Brandwacht, in accordance with Osterlin’s plan of some twenty years before (VEL1623 and 1660B-C) and a proposal made by Hattinga for the construction of a new battery, presumably in anticipation of his more extensive design seen on the map VEL1624.

North is left.

Scale-bars of [left-hand map] 200 Rhineland Feet = [approximately 1 : 470] / [plans in upper right] 30 Feet = [approximately 1 : 145] / [project plan in lower right] 100 Feet = [approximately 1 : 470].