Bavarian hype

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The Tyrolean people under the leadership of Sterzing chased the Bavarians out of the country in May 1703 from Franz Lubojatzky : Germany's last three centuries ... (1858)

Bayrischer Rummel (also: Boarischer Rummel ) is the trivializing description of the armed events in which Bavarian troops of Elector Max II. Emanuel invaded Tyrol as part of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1703 .

War events

Monument at the Pontlatzer Bridge
The Anna column in Innsbruck

The Bavarian troops besieged Kufstein on June 19, 1703 . Fires broke out in the suburbs, spreading to the city itself, destroying it and reaching the powder store of the fortress , which was considered impregnable . The enormous powder reserves exploded and Kufstein surrendered on June 20th. On the same day the Tyroleans surrendered in Wörgl , two days later Rattenberg was taken and Innsbruck was evacuated on June 25 without a fight. The Bavarians were repulsed by the Tyroleans on July 1st at the Pontlatzer Bridge in the uppermost Inn Valley , also on the Brenner Pass and near Innsbruck. On July 26th , the name day of St. Anna , Tyrol was liberated again and Max Emanuel withdrew to Bavaria via Seefeld in Tyrol . The Tyroleans pursued the fleeing enemies as far as Bavaria, robbed, plundered and set monasteries, villages and farms on fire.

In the course of construction work in 2011 in Pfons in the Wipptal, graves were discovered which presumably came from Bavarian soldiers who were buried in threes not at the cemetery but near the river bank. The assumptions are also based on clues that were mentioned in the local chronicle of Matrei am Brenner .

Traditions

In gratitude for the liberation, the estates vowed to erect an Anna column in 1704 , which was erected in Innsbruck in 1706.

The Bavarian hype forms - together with the struggle for freedom of 1809, by which it is regularly pushed into the shadows in academic and public discourse - an important element of Tyrolean historical awareness and Tyrolean identity and contributed to the construction of the image of the "defensive Tyrolean Farmers ”.

literature

  • Martin P. Schennach, Richard Schober (Ed.): 1703. The "Bavarian hype" in Tyrol. Wagner Verlag, Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-7030-0395-2 .
  • Florian Schaffenrath , Stefan Tilg (translation and commentary): Achilles in Tirol (The "Bavarian Rummel" 1703 in the "Epitome rerum Oenovallensium" [...]), Tirolensia Latina 2004, ISBN 3-7030-0386-3 . The Latin book, published anonymously in Amsterdam in 1710, tells the events of 1703 in great detail, but in encrypted form ( Max Emanuel, for example, becomes Achill , Tyrolis becomes Lothyris ), which the translators were able to resolve almost completely.

Web links

Commons : Bayrischer Rummel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The "Boarian Rummel" 1703. Association for homeland protection and homeland maintenance in North and East Tyrol.
  2. ↑ The Pfons bone find is over 300 years old. ORF , February 12, 2011.
  3. ^ Josef Gelmi: Church history of Tyrol . Tyrolia, 1986, ISBN 3-7022-1599-9 , pp. 109 .
  4. ↑ Martin P. Schennach, Richard Schober (Ed.): 1703. The "Bavarian hype" in Tyrol. Wagner Verlag, Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-7030-0395-2