The fortress system of Komarom

After the war of independence the building of the fortress system continued. The contractors utilized the war-fortification experience gained during the assaults at the elaboration of the new plans. That lieutenant general Simunich became the new commandant of the fortress system who in March of 1849 beleaguered with his army corps and had Komrom shelled. The encompassing of the town demonstrated that such group of fortresses must be established on the right bank of the river Danube which detains that the artillera of the enemy could find access to the left-bank forts and continuously assures the possibility of overpassing the river.
 
In the middle of the 19^th century in Europe more and more such fortress systems were built which can be classified among the so called belt-castle systems. The function of the belt-castle systems or otherwise the fort-belts was staving the besieging artillery off the inner defense buildings. The radius of the fort-belt depended on the range of the artillerys gun and in this way it could be composed of several, roughly concentric belts, the forts could be even in a 3 000 steps distance from the center. The first belt of the fortress system, which was reinforced even with advanced battery emplacements, coerced the enemys ordnance to display themselves apart. The certain fortress elements well-appointed with gunnery were in a firing liaison with each other, two neighbouring forts cannons could keep under fire each others foregrounds averting the invasion of the enemy.

The fortress system of Komrom was built on a similar conception. In conformity with the plans they wanted to construct besides the already existing Star-Fort on the right bank of the river Danube the fortresses of Sand-Hill (Monostor) and Igmnd, which would have been bounded with a contiguous wall. They wanted to create a fortress-line on the bank of the rivers Vg-Danube and on the bank of the rivers opposing the bank of the Old Fortress a new bridge-head was planned. The most significant element was the Monastery Fortess (Fortress of Monostor), which was planned as the most enormous element of the whole belt-system and was to be established on the Sand-Hill.