Fort Claudia
The Fort Claudia ( "Hochschanz") in the town of Reutte originated in the 17th century as part of the barrier system around the fortress Ehrenberg Castle in Tyrol Ausserfern . The remains of the small fortress were secured and partially reconstructed after the turn of the millennium.
history
The Falkenberg opposite Ehrenberg Castle had already proven to be a weak point in the Ehrenberg fortification system in the 16th century. The sovereign fortress builder Elias Gumpp therefore began to plan a fort around 1639, which should make it more difficult to bypass the castle. The new building was named after the landlady Claudia von Medici - the widow of Archduke Leopold V.
In the War of the Spanish Succession , the Bavarian elector was nevertheless able to take the castle (1703). However, the Tyroleans managed to recapture shortly afterwards. For this purpose, guns were pulled onto the still unfortified head of the castle behind the fortress and the castle was shot ready for storm. These events demonstrated the need for a further fortification on the head of the castle, which towers over the medieval core castle by about 150 meters. From 1726 to 1741 a huge fortress was built on the mountain ( Schlosskopf Fortress ).
As early as 1782, the Tyrolean state fortresses except for Kufstein were abandoned and partially demolished. However, the fort was still inhabited until the 19th century. Then began the decline of the complex, which, together with the fortress, remained almost unnoticed by research until the turn of the millennium. The fortifications around the castle were also almost unknown to many locals.
In the course of the expansion of the Ostallgäu-Ausserfern castle region , the first conservation measures were started around the year 2000, most of which have already been completed in the area of the fort. To restore the historical visual relationships, larger areas of mountain forest had to be cleared.
Since November 2014, the highline179 , a pedestrian suspension bridge over the Fernpassstrasse B 179 south of Reutte in Tyrol, has connected Fort Claudia with the Ehrenberg ruins.
description
The fort lies on an almost flat ledge on the mountainside east of the main road. Opposite the castle is enthroned at almost the same height on its mountain saddle, which the castle head towers over with the fortress. In the mountain forest, the outworks and jumps around the core work can still be partly followed. Some of these fortifications seem to have been built before the 17th century. Wall trains also run to the Klause am Bergsattel. The guns were certainly here in front of the fort, the openings of which only allowed the use of muskets .
The heavily ruinous remains of the core work were preserved after 2000 and partially rebuilt. The base is square, the side lengths are about 20 m. Two acute-angled bastions jump out in the east. Another small bastion protected the entrance gate on the west side. The bastions are only about half as high as the rest of the masonry and are accessible from the interior. The masonry is broken through at regular intervals by narrow musket loops, which are expanded trapezoidally on the inside and rounded off with a round arch. On the outside, a beaded cordon cornice runs around the upper part of the system. The surrounding limestone served as building material .
literature
- Richard Lipp: Ehrenberg - history and stories (publications of the museum association of the Reutte district, volume II). Reutte, 2006. ISBN 3-9502282-0-9 , ISBN 978-3-9502282-0-5
- Oswald Trapp: Tiroler Burgenbuch, VII, Oberinntal and Ausserfern . Bozen, Innsbruck, Vienna, 1986, ISBN 88-7014-391-0
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Coordinates: 47 ° 27 ′ 43 ″ N , 10 ° 43 ′ 22 ″ E