The suburb of Vauban in Freiburg in Germany, where I am from, is even named after Sébastien Vauban. His work included old fortress ruins of the city, as well as the fortess of Neuf-Brisach in the Alsace, which appears on the very east of the map at the end of the video and is not far away.
@grandmanitou6563
Not only was Vauban the supreme grandmaster in fort creation, he was also the greatest of all time when it came to take fortresses down and truly perfected the art of siegecraft both in offense and defense.
@Echoak95
It is missing one of the oldest, biggest and most important Star forts, Vienna. After the first Siege of Vienna, Italian stonemasons spent 100 years building one of the biggest fortresses in the world; right up until the second siege of Vienna. The walls were over 9 km long and had dozens of bastions, which led to one of the biggest sieges in history.
The history of Star forts is super interesting - they sit in Europe (and around the world; look at St. Augustine) as visual artefacts of a literal Medieval/Renaissance arms race. Learning about them teaches us about technological innovations that ended the medieval period and created the groundwork for the modern era. It also shows how crucial the cannon was as an invention of late medieval warfare.
