Fort you Scex
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The Fort du Scex ( German fortress Scex ) (army designation A 160) is a former artillery plant in the fortress area of Saint-Maurice , which is located in a rock face above Saint-Maurice in the Swiss canton of Valais . ⊙
The fort is connected to the Cindey fortress by a natural cave, the Grotte aux Fées , which is about 15 minutes' walk above the Saint-Maurice castle . There you will find the entrance to the Cindey fortress and the access ⊙ to the Fort du Scex.
history
Fort Scex was built in 1911 with the “Galerie du Scex” battery ⊙ as a flanking structure opposite the forts Savatan and Dailly . Further expansions took place from 1915 to 1924 with a new entrance and a hospital ward. From 1935 to 1936 a connecting tunnel to the natural cave passage (gallery of the dead) of the "Grotte aux Fées" and the Cindey fortress was built.
From 1938 to 1939 the fortress was expanded with the “Ermitage” battery ⊙ with four 7.5 cm cannons. Between 1940 and 1946 an internal corridor was built between the new accommodations and the older casemates , and between 1948 and 1952 a new ammunition magazine and a medical compartment were built. The Z 103 St-Maurice – Fort du Scex cable car with the valley station at the Saint-Maurice barracks was built for the transport. ⊙
In 1984 the artillery pieces were disarmed and a command post was installed in place of the sick bay. Due to the Army 95 reform , the fort was declassified and abandoned in 1995.
Armament
The «Galerie du Scex» was armed in 1911 with four 7.5 cm L30 cannons from 1903/18 . The four 7.5 cm cannons 1903/18 L30 on Krupp-Giovanola mounts, set up in 1938 as the “Battery Ermitage”, could fire the area in front of and the covers of the forts Savatan and Dailly, which were built in 1892 on the rock on the right bank of the Rhone to take.
Infrastructure
There is a large command post and a departmental fire control center in the fort. The engine room and switchboard were also used by Fort Cindey. The water reservoir in the fort holds 330,000 liters. The pumping station for the operating material is 90 meters below the plant at the valley station of the cable car.
crew
Fort Scex was operated by a fortress company with a nominal number of 173 soldiers, 8 officers, 28 NCOs and 137 soldiers. From 1985 to 1995 the fortress company IV / 1 occupied the fortresses of Scex and Cindey with 258 men. After the disarmament of the artillery in 1984, the crew was reduced to a fortress company with 97 soldiers (4 Of, 15 Uof, 78 Sdt).
museum
The fort was bought by the canton of Valais and opened to the public in 2002 by the Fondation historique de St-Maurice . The Fondation historique de St. Maurice organizes public tours.
literature
- Jean-Jacques Rapin: De la Garrison de St-Maurice à la brigade de forteresse 10. (1892-2003), ASMEM, St-Maurice, 2004.
- Pierre Delévaux: La Galerie du Scex (1911-2011) . Association St-Maurice d'Etudes Militaires en collaboration with Fondation Forteresse historique Saint-Maurice, Saint-Maurice 2011.
- Julius Rebold: Building history of the federal fortifications 1831-1860 and 1885-1921 . Association St-Maurice d'Etudes militaires, Saint-Maurice 2017, ISBN 978-3-906812-02-1
Web links
- Forteresse Saint-Maurice: 500 years of fortifications in the St-Maurice area
- Photos of the Fort Scex
- Fortress world: Scex Fortress
- Cable car fortress Scex, video
Individual evidence
- ↑ Works Scex-Cindey In: Silvio Keller, Maurice Lovisa: Military monuments in the canton of Valais , Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport, Bern 2002, page 42
- ↑ Video cable car Z 103
- ↑ Fortress Oberland: A166 Fort du Scex / Ermitage
- ↑ Opening times and guided tours Fort du Scex
Coordinates: 46 ° 12 ′ 50 ″ N , 6 ° 59 ′ 47 ″ E