Munhaksanseong Fortress

This is a stone-built mountain fortress on the summit of Munhaksan Mountain in Nam-gu, Incheon, also known as "Michuhol Goseong" (Old Fortress of Michuhol) and "Namsanseong" (Namsan Fortress). According to the Dongsagangmok and the Yeojidoseo, Munhaksan Mountain was the capital of King Michu (also known as Biryu) of Baekje, and it is recorded that there are the remains of a stone-built mountain fortress there, with a well inside called Biryujeong. It was built in the temoe-sik style, a technique that rings a single summit with a belt of stone walls, and consists of an inner wall and an outer wall, with a beacon-fire station (bongsudae) once standing inside. The circumference of the fortress is 100 m for the earthen inner wall and 200 m for the stone outer wall; it was built to make maximum use of the terrain, and it is said that a stone wall of about 5 m was raised especially at the summit, though most of the walls have now collapsed. Among the surviving documentary records of the fortress, the Incheonbu-eupji notes that during the Japanese invasions of 1592, the magistrates Kim Min-seon and Kim Chan-seon repaired the old fortress and led local residents in repelling the Japanese forces. Munhaksanseong Fortress lies about 10 km southeast of Incheon Port, and from the summit of Munhaksan Mountain one can look out over the whole of Incheon.

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Where it is

Region

Michuhol-gu, Incheon

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물