Fort Van Der Wijck located at Jl. Sapta Marga, Sedayu Village, District Gombong, Kebumen, Central Java. The fort is located in the town Gombong or approximately 21 Km from
the city Kebumen with the access road is paved as well as tourist sites
with public transport supported Kebumen-Deal.
Dutch heritage fort was probably built in 1818 on the initiative of General Van den Bosch. Octagonal shape made of bricks has 2 floors. In the world there are only two octagonal castle, only exist in Australia.
Fort 10 meters high, 1.4 meters thick and covering an area of 7,168 square meters was built two floors. The first floor has four gates. Inside are 16 large rooms and 27 smaller rooms. Also there are 72 windows and eight stairs to the second floor, which has 16 large rooms and 25 large room.
Van Der Wijck Diponegoro was built during the war by way of forced labor, nothing to do with politics stelsel castle, which used to narrow Dutch troop movement Diponegoro.
Apart from being the headquarters of the Dutch defense, the castle was used Dutch for military education. Former President Suharto, when entering Koninklijke KNIL or het Nederlands Indische Leger, also trained there. When Japan entered, the fort was to train PETA. After the Dutch left Indonesia in 1948 until now the Army exploit this fortress into school Tamtama (secata).
On the first floor there is a special room contains photographs of the castle earlier times, before it was restored, and after restoration, photo generals, the rooms are arranged as well as photo-photo artist ever shooting films such as Slank, Farah Quinn until the film The Raid 2 thug.
Dutch heritage fort was probably built in 1818 on the initiative of General Van den Bosch. Octagonal shape made of bricks has 2 floors. In the world there are only two octagonal castle, only exist in Australia.
Fort 10 meters high, 1.4 meters thick and covering an area of 7,168 square meters was built two floors. The first floor has four gates. Inside are 16 large rooms and 27 smaller rooms. Also there are 72 windows and eight stairs to the second floor, which has 16 large rooms and 25 large room.
Van Der Wijck Diponegoro was built during the war by way of forced labor, nothing to do with politics stelsel castle, which used to narrow Dutch troop movement Diponegoro.
Apart from being the headquarters of the Dutch defense, the castle was used Dutch for military education. Former President Suharto, when entering Koninklijke KNIL or het Nederlands Indische Leger, also trained there. When Japan entered, the fort was to train PETA. After the Dutch left Indonesia in 1948 until now the Army exploit this fortress into school Tamtama (secata).
On the first floor there is a special room contains photographs of the castle earlier times, before it was restored, and after restoration, photo generals, the rooms are arranged as well as photo-photo artist ever shooting films such as Slank, Farah Quinn until the film The Raid 2 thug.
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