The artillery fortress Hanička is a part of the pre-war fortification system built in the 1930s primarily with defence against Germans in mind.
The fortress was given this girl’s name after the village located nearby. The fort consisted of six warfare objects connected by hundreds of metres of corridors and underground rooms. Spacious rooms could house a large amount of supply, which could enable the soldiers to fight in case of a siege lasting a few months.
The sole construction of Hanička was completed in 1938, but it was lacking most of the required interior equipment. In 1938, it was given up without a fight to the representatives of Wehrmacht. The German army used the fortress to test the fire endurance of our facilities and the effectiveness of German artillery shells. After the war, the bell shooting by the state enterprise Kovošrot damaged the fortress more than the German during the full 6 years of occupation.
In 1975, Hanička was occupies by the then Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and in its undergrounds, the construction of a modern shelter, appropriate for the 21st century, under the codename Kahan, began. The undergrounds were modified and equipped with modern technologies which were to ensure survival of only few chosen people. Although the reconstruction consumed hundreds of million of Czech Koruna, it has never been completed.
