Ebersberg Fortress
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The artillery works Ebersberg or Rüdlingen is located on the left bank of the Rhine on the Ebersberg ( Berg am Irchel ) opposite Rüdlingen in Switzerland. It is the only fortress in the canton of Zurich . The plant, which is integrated into the Rüdlingen barrier, is a military historical monument of national importance.
Ebersberg belongs with the fortress Reuenthal (AG), fortress Heldsberg (SG) and Geissberg (AG) to the only artillery works in Switzerland close to the border.
history
There was a weir system on the Ebersberg in prehistoric times. The Ebersberg artillery factory was built by hand into the sandstone layer of the Ebersberg between 1938 and 1940. In 1978 the outdated cannons were removed. The plant was used for other military purposes until it was declassified in April 2003. In May 2003, the public had the first opportunity to take a look inside the hitherto secret facility. The fortress has been preserved in its original good condition to this day (2018): The ventilation is operational and the two diesel engines generate electricity at the push of a button.
Lock point in Rüdlingen
The Rüdlingen barrier (Army designation No. 654, 694) consisted of over 20 objects. From 1938 to 1940 the Ebersberg artillery works (A 5438), the infantry works (A 5439) and the machine gun stand (A 5440) were built. Later, the facilities of Border Brigade 6 and, in 1941, three local defense posts for the artillery plant were built. In the 1960s, all plants were supplemented with standardized ASU nuclear protection shelters.
- Half-train shelter A 5435 Ebersberg Süd
- Small shelter A 5436 Ebersberg Ost
- Small shelter A 5437 Ebersberg Nord
- Artillery works Ebersberg A 5438 Rüdlingen ⊙
- Infantry bunker Rüdlinger Brücke A 5439 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Rüdlinger Brücke A 5440: Lmg ⊙
- Infantry bunker Ziegelhütte A 5441 ⊙
Bridge guard Rheinbrücke Rüdlingen A 5440
Infantry factory Rüdlingen bridge A 5439
Counterwork at Ziegelhütte A 5441
ASU nuclear shelter
Ebersberg artillery plant
The factory (army designation A 5438) had the following facilities:
- the entrance work with the guardhouse
- the central defense and a cavern with the fine dust filter (atomic filter)
- a 30 meter deep shaft for the supply of fresh air
- an energy center with two diesel units, the ventilation system and a workshop
- an ammunition magazine
the two-storey crew wing with: (There were 66 beds in total, four of them in the guardhouse. Each soldier had his own bed)
Basement:
- Doctor's room, examination room
- Sick room for some patients
- Bathroom for the patient
- Washroom
- Officers' dining room
- Dining room for the NCOs and soldiers
- Provision room, storeroom
- Kitchen, including the drinking water reservoir
- The soldiers' toilet, including the septic tank
Upper floor:
- Fire control center (officers' workroom)
- Non-commissioned officers' bedroom (10 men)
- Company office (1 sleeping place)
- Telephone booth for private calls
- Switchboard (1 sleeping place)
- Commandant's workroom
- Officers' bedroom (4 men)
- Soldiers' bedroom (46 men)
- WC of the officers
- magazine
- Library
Gun stands:
- Artillery observer Tüfels Chanzel ⊙
- Artillery Works Stand 1: Observer stand 1 with emergency exit ⊙
- Artillery plant stand 2: Gun 1 ⊙
- Artillery Plant Stand 3: Gun 2, Observer 2 ⊙
Fortress entrance plant
Observer station 1 with new camouflage
Gun post 1
Gun post 2 with observer post 2
Armament
The fortress Ebersberg was equipped with two shooting ranges, each with a 7.5 cm caliber artillery bunker cannon. The guns had the task of preventing enemy troops from crossing the Rhine or to stop them for a certain time. The range of action of the cannons ranged from Rüdlingen to Schaffhausen . Each of the two semi-automatic guns could fire 20 shells per minute.
The infantry unit A 5439 at the foot of the Ebersberg, equipped with an infantry cannon, was part of the external defense of the artillery unit. A 5439 had the Mg stand A 5441 as counterwork and these two were able to give each other protection against sashes.
Workforce
During a combat mission, the fortress was manned by 65 soldiers, NCOs and officers from the fortress artillery company (Fest Art Kp) 96. The supplies of drinking water, food, fuel for the emergency diesel engines and ammunition were designed for ten days of autonomy.
Todays use
The Swiss military authority ceded the fortress to the local authority in 2006. Berg am Irchel handed it over to the Military History Society of the Canton of Zurich with a long-term contract . The work should be preserved for posterity - if possible in its original state, not as a museum. There are guided tours for the public. In September 2010, the new Ebersberg hiking and fortress path created by the Lions Club Andelfingen was opened. This leads from the Rhine bridge near Rüdlingen, past the infantry works A 5440 and A 5439, along the sockets of the artillery works A 5438 Rüdlingen, up to the Teufelskanzel.
The Military History Society also owns the Ziegelhütte infantry factory (A 5441), which served as a counter-work to the Rüdlinger Brücke infantry factory (A 5439). It is located about 250 m above the bridge up the Rhine near the banks of the Rhine, on the other side of the Langwisenbach.
literature
- Walter Schmid: Ebersberg Fortress (AW Rüdlingen) , self-published by W. Schmid, Hombrechtikon 2006.
- Archive Today: Underground Switzerland: The Ebersberg Fortress
Web links
- Ebersberg Fortress is a well-documented contemporary witness . General Swiss military magazine ASMZ, Volume 173, 2007, Issue 7-8
- Zürcher Weinland: Historic artillery plant A 5438 "Rüdlingen"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Location of the Ebersberg on the national map
- ↑ Oberland Fortress: Barrier No. 654/694 Rüdlingen ZH / SH
- ↑ Little porcupine: AW Ebersberg ZH
- ^ Military History Society of the Canton of Zurich: Ebersberg tour
Coordinates: 47 ° 34 '15.2 " N , 8 ° 34' 46.9" E ; CH1903: 685,860 / two hundred and sixty-nine thousand five hundred thirty-four