Passati fortress

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The Passati fortress (army designation A 6375) ⊙ is a former artillery plant of the Swiss Army in the Sargans fortress area . It was built as part of the Seeztal barrier (Seeztalsperre) in the rock face of the same name directly above Mels-Heiligkreuz.

Passati artillery plant

The Passati artillery plant was planned in November 1939 as a counter-work to the Castels A 6400 artillery plant opposite , which is located in the Castels hill on the southern side of the valley ⊙ . The command post of Sargan's northern front was integrated into the Passati facility.

The rock was armed with two 7.5 cm bunker cannons 39 and five fortress machine guns Mg 11 as close defense, which could act from the north on the Seezalsperre and the apron and into the Seeztal. A single light machine gun stand covered the entrance to the fortress. The plant was operated until mid-1974, at the beginning by a detachment of the fortress artillery company 32 from the Castels artillery plant. It went into private ownership together with the fortress of Furggels .

  • Passati entrance bridge

  • External defense

  • Main entrance

Lock point Seeztal

The Seeztal barrier (army designation Spst No. 1310) runs in a north-easterly direction across the Seez valley from Mels (Castels hill) to Heiligkreuz and is part of the Sargans fortress. It consists of the artillery works Castels and Passati and a chain of anti-tank traps and bunkers. These systems together formed the westernmost locking bar of the Sargans Fortress.

The railing armored obstacle with its infantry bunkers had to block the Seeztal between the artillery works Castels A 6400 and Passatiwand A 6375 against a march towards Walensee .

  • Terrain tank obstacle GPH Mels-Heiligkreuz ⊙ ⊙ ⊙
  • Rebberg A 6378 infantry bunker: machine gun (Mg), observer (ob) ⊙
  • Infantry bunker Heiligkreuz A 6379: Bunker anti-tank gun ( Pak 50/57 ), Mg, ob ⊙
  • Heiligkreuz infantry bunker A 6380: originally an infantry cannon shield (Ik shield), later a 9 cm anti-tank cannon (Pak) ⊙
  • Infantry bunker Heiligkreuz Nord A 6381: Mg, Ob ⊙
  • Infantry bunker Erzweg A 6382: two light machine guns (Lmg) ⊙
  • Heiligkreuz shelter A 6383: dismantled
  • Infantry bunker Heiligkreuz Süd A 6384: 2 Mg, Ob, dismantled
  • Infantry bunker Runggalina A 6412: BPak, Mg, Ob ⊙
  • Infantry bunker Runggalina A 6413: Mg, Ob
  • Infantry bunker Runggalina A 6414: BPak, ob
  • Shelter, KP Plons A 6415: Accommodation for 12 cm mine throwers (Mw) crew, later battalion command post
  • Infantry bunker Lisbeth A 6416: Lmg, dismantled
  • Medical bunker Reschu 4 A 6450
  • Medical bunker Reschu 5 A 6451
  • Medical bunker Reschu 6 A 6452
  • Medical bunker Reschu A 6453
  • three 12 cm Mw positions Plons: dismantled

  • Bunker Erzweg

  • GPH Erzweg

  • Runggalina infantry bunker

Pro Seeztal-Alvier fortifications

The organization owns the facilities of Heiligkreuz Infantry Works A 6379 and Lavadarsch Infantry Works A 6065 (Schollberg 1306 lock point).

literature

  • Walter Gabathuler: Sargans Fortress 1944: Sargans-West: Troops, defense works, war command post, infrastructures and evacuation organization in the event of war: Part of the combat group "Northern Front": Seeztal-Ost / Seeztalsperre, Kastels artillery and Passatiwand: Area of ​​the combat group "Western Front" ": Seeztal-West and lock Nideri, Central Surgical Field Hospital in Lochezen . AFOM publishing house, Artillerie-Fort-Magletsch-Verein, Oberschan 2007

Web links

Commons : Passati Fortress  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Artillery Works Passatiwand A 6375
  2. ↑ St. Galler Tagblatt from March 1, 2010: The battleship under the village
  3. ↑ Fortress Oberland: Lock point Seeztal SG

Coordinates: 47 ° 3 '22 "  N , 9 ° 25' 39"  E ; CH1903:  751092  /  213591