Strub Fortress

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Ruins of the fortress Pass Strub

The fortress Pass Strub was a Salzburg fortress on Pass Strub and served to secure the road between Lofer and Waidring . It stood on the border with Tyrol and is now a ruin.

history

The first border security systems were built on this important road at the Strub Pass as early as 1282. During the Thirty Years' War , the Archbishop of Salzburg, Paris Lodron, had the facility expanded to protect his territory from the Swedes . In 1805 the Landsturm and the imperial troops managed to hold the fortress against the French. Only four years later, during the Tyrolean uprising under Andreas Hofer , the Bavarians came from Salzburg against Tyrol. In the fifth attack they managed to storm the fortress of Pass Strub. The fortress was razed on the orders of the French . Since then there is only one ruin left.

Varia

As a lieutenant colonel and battalion commander in the then Bavarian Leib-Regiment , the later General Freiherr Alois von Ströhl , at the head of his association, stormed the western entrenchments of the fortress Pass Strub during the Third Coalition War , on November 2nd and 3rd, 1805 conquered despite a bullet on the left thigh. With an army order of November 22, 1805, he received the Kurpfalz-Bavarian Military Medal of Honor , the highest honor for bravery in Bavaria.

Web links

Commons : Pass Strub  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Anton von Schönhueb: History of the Royal Bavarian cadet corps , Munich, 1856, page 70; Scan from the source

Coordinates: 47 ° 34 ′ 42.9 ″  N , 12 ° 40 ′ 15 ″  E