Mandlingpass fortifications
The Mandlingpass fortification is located on the B 320, the Ennstal Straße , which leads from Radstadt in Salzburg to Schladming in Styria .
history
Already in a document from 890 that is proven to be forged today, King Arnulf of Carinthia established the border between Salzburg and Styria at the confluence of the Mandlingbach in the Enns ( Maior Medelicha ). But that the border dispute did not stop, so that Duke Albrecht I to secure its territory against the archbishops of Salzburg here in 1287, the castle Mandling was built (also called Ennsburg), but already in 1289 in a military conflict with the Archbishop Rudolf I of Hoheneck was destroyed again. In 1295 King Adolf von Nassau allowed Salzburg Archbishop Konrad IV to fortify the Mandling Pass, and in the Peace of Vienna of 1297 the border between Salzburg and Styria was established here, but this did not mean the end of the border disputes.
In the Peasant Wars of 1525, the peasants under the leadership of Michael Gruber invaded Schladming from the Mandling Pass and remained victorious against a Styrian army under the Styrian governor Siegmund von Dietrichstein . During the Thirty Years' War , it was feared that the Swedish troops would penetrate the Ennstal and therefore had entrenchments built on the Mandlingpass in 1629. A flood of 1661 meant that the border had to be re-regulated. In order to end the border dispute that flickered again and again, the geographer Georg Matthäus Vischer was commissioned with a new land survey in 1677 . In its representation, the Salzburg fortifications are clearly recognizable.
At the Congress of Vienna , the federal border between 1814-15 was kuk monarchy and the former Archbishopric of Salzburg canceled and the archbishopric of Salzburg Austria awarded. As a result, the now inner Austrian border lost its importance and the defensive wall fell into disrepair and was finally partially demolished for road and rail construction. But there were still two toll stations in Mandling (state border) and Gröbming in 1847 .
Fortifications Mandling today
Today there are still several angled walls that pull up the mountain from the road and the remains of a bastion . A man-high wall with a rampart behind it extends to the banks of the Enns. In 2002, work began on securing the existing wall in order to secure the defense system for the future.
literature
- Friederike Zaisberger & Walter Schlegel : Castles and palaces in Salzburg. Flachgau and Tennengau. Birch series, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85326-957-5 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Ennsburg on Ennstalwiki
- Mandling on Ennstalwiki
- History of Pichl
- The weir system in Mandling near Radstadt - once a controversial border between Salzburg and Austria
Coordinates: 47 ° 24 ′ 6.5 ″ N , 13 ° 34 ′ 21.2 ″ E