GUIDING SPEELWIJK FORT


SPEELWIJK FORT

Speelwijk Fort is located in Pamarican Village, about 600m to northwest of Keraton Surosowan, Banten Lama Site. This fortress is an unsymmetric rectangle building with bastions in every corner. Speelwijk Fort was built in 1682, and has been expanded in 1685 and 1731. This fort was designed by Hendrick Lucaszoon Cardeel, and the name of this fortress was taken from VOC governor's name,  Cornelis Jansz Speelman. This fortress seemed to be a symbol of  Dutch colonial's  reign and was built under Sultan Abu Nasr Abdul Kahhar's leadership. He's also known as Sultan Haji and is Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa's son. Even so, his personality is very different from his father. Unlike his father who is very firmly in politic matter, Sultan Haji is easily persuaded by the Dutch.
Although this building's condition is no longer intact, we can still enjoy the architecture of this building in several corners. This fortress allegedly has 2 functions, that is  for defense and settlement. Speelwijck Fort was a place that controls every activities that related to Kesultanan Banten and also a shelter for colonialist. This fortress reinforced the Dutch to monopolize pepper trade that coming from South Lampung, and they sell it again to foreign merchants from China, Malaysia, Arab, India and Vietnam.
Speelwijk Fort has 4 bastions, cannon window, guard room, basement for warehouse, seafloor, and watch tower. This fort also surrounded by 1.5 to 2 meters trench as an outside defense.  Under the bastion, there's a place where gunpowder is stored. The common quarter of this fortress is devided into weapon storage, commander's house, administration office, and church which is now only it's ruins that still left. In this fortress, the outer side of south to be exact, there is graveyard for the foreigners called kerkhoff. The tombstone looks vary. One of the biggest tombs is Commander Hugo Pieter Faure's tomb (1718 – 1763), the warlord.

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