Meehaman Fort

Remains of the Dutch can be seen in 300 years old fort along the coast in Delft. This was built by the Dutch using their colonial architecture of their era. This was built by the Dutch adopting their own architectural pattern. The older surviving building here, as well as the most iconic is the Dutch reformed fort

The Dutch Fort, which was also used as a prison, has very small rooms and 2 ½ feet thick walls. The stairs run in the double walls lead out on to what must have been a flat roof, judging from the marks of the rafter sockets in the masonry.

It is a very strongly fortified two-storied dwelling, covering an area about fifty yards square, with a double centre wall of immense thickness. This wall completely cuts the fort in half at Ground-level, the only means of communication being on the first floor-a common precautionary measure in defensive structures of that period. As a result, it is a very complicated edifice, full of long narrow and little square rooms.

The stairs run in the double walls and lead out on to what must have been a flat roof, judging from the marks of the rafter sockets in the masonry. In one corner is the dungeon, a small square room, with a floor below ground level. Without any door, and having only one small window about two feet square, leading into the interior of the fort. The unfortunate prisoners must have been pushed in through this little aperture, or let down through a trapdoor in the floor above, and could have got out only by means of a rope; a good many must have met their death in this little chamber. There is one large room which has the appearance of a mess-room, and a large number of small sleeping-rooms connected by corridors.

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