page_title: Roundel (fortification)
section_title: Plassenburg example
hierarchical_section_title: Roundel (fortification) / History / Later design and re-emergence / Plassenburg example
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Westrondell der Plassenburg in Kulmbach
context_page_description: The roundel is a strong artillery fortification with a rounded or circular plan of a similar height to the adjacent defensive walls. If the fortification is clearly higher than the walls it is called a battery tower.
context_section_description: At the fortress of Plassenburg in Kulmbach there are two "staggered" roundels. One is a high, inner, roundel built within a much larger outer roundel. This construction is one of the largest surviving roundel works in Germany. The inner and outer roundels house two gun decks, which meant that a staggered roundel could generate a heavy weight of fire from four batteries. The fortress with its roundels was used by the army until the Napoleonic Wars in 1806. The two roundels in the west of the fortress were rebuilt after the place had been slighted in 1554 following the Second Margrave War, although by that time bastions had already superseded them. Subsequently, between 1557 and 1607, more bastions were added.
caption: View of the outer west roundel of the  Plassenburg with gunports and the inner west roundel positioned within it.
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