Dovetail Fort St. Donaas

Fort Sint-Donaas was built by the Spanish in 1605, after the recapture of Sluis by the States in 1604. It made
together with Fort Sint-Job and Fort Sint-Frederik, they are part of a three-part fort configuration on the Verse Vaart and the Zoute Vaart. Both canals were located where the Damse Vaart is now located. Fort Sint-Donaas was connected to Fort by a line
Isabella in Knokke-Heist. During the War of the Spanish Succession, the fort was adapted to plans by the State fortress builder
Menno van Coehoorn. It received two additional redoubts in the south and a so-called dovetail in the north. Through
Fort Sint-Donaas largely disappeared during the construction of the Damse Vaart, but the dovetail is still easily recognizable. It is the only surviving remnant of Menno van Coehoorn's work in Flanders. Since its partial restoration in 2012, you can imagine what it originally looked like.

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