Constructed between 1850 and 1851 on the height of the Mount Castello (227 m) to the Northeast of Rivoli, the fort has protect the roads that bring from Affi to RIvoli and to the Adige river, intercrossing its shooting with the forts of Ceraino and Monte: the great part of the "casematte" for the artillery in fact was turned to South and the West, but there was also the possibility to place pieces of artillery with range to 360". 

Called "Wohlgemuth" in onor of an Austrian general made famous by the campaign of 1848, the main body of the fort is constituted by a double overlapping cylindrical "casematta". There were 17 guns on the fort.
The fort was connected by a road with the town of Rivoli and with the fort Chiusa by another road that came down on the right side of the Adige river crossing it over with a flowing port in direction of Ceraino.
In 1866the fort was armed with 14 guns, but it had also some artilleries to be set in the close large square.