Monte Campeon

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Monte Campeon
Randalpine valley funnel of the Tagliamento: on the right the wooded Monte Cuarnan and its southern foothills; the rock massif is the Monte Cjampon, behind it on the left the Plauris massif

Randalpine valley funnel of the Tagliamento : on the right the wooded Monte Cuarnan and its southern foothills; the rock massif is the Monte Cjampon , behind it on the left the Plauris massif

height 759  m slm
location at Gemona and Tarcento
Mountains Monte Cjampon , Julian Prealps , Julian Alps
Coordinates 46 ° 14 '45 "  N , 13 ° 11' 52"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 14 '45 "  N , 13 ° 11' 52"  E
Monte Campeon (Friuli Venezia Giulia)
Monte Campeon
particularities Positions of the Middle Tagliamento fortress (1909)

The Monte Campeon is a 759  m slm high hill in the Julian Prealps near Gemona del Friuli and Tarcento in Friuli .

Location and landscape

The mountain is located in the Friuli hill country (Friuli collinare) on the edge of the southern Alps to the northern Italian lowlands , between the valley of the Tagliamento near Gemona to the west and the upper reaches of the Torre near Tarcento to the east. Here near Magnano in Riviera , Artegna and the valley of Montenars the Monte Faeit , the Monte Campeon and the Monte Chiestellirs form the southern foothills of the Monte Cuarnan  ( 1372  m slm ), a fore summit in the Cjampon massif (Chiampon) ,  1709  m slm

History: military positions

Advances after the Battle of Kobarid (12th Isonzo Battle) Oct./Nov. 1917

Around 1900, not far from the southern Austrian-Hungarian border, the Italian army built massive fortifications around Ragogna , San Daniele , Pinzano and Forgaria , with the forts Col Roncone , Fagagna , Sta. Margherita , Tricesimo and Mt. Bernadia-Lonza Opposite was the Austrian fortress system Middle Tagliamento (Fortezza Medio Tagliamento). Between 1908 and 1913, gun emplacements were also erected on the surrounding mountains . In 1909 a position for four 149 mm guns with a forecourt and small buildings for crew and ammunition was built on Monte Campeon. In particular, it formed the backing for the fortress of Monte Bernadia.

Since the Italian military leadership there in World War I was looking at starting at entry into the war in 1915 as a primary aim of isolating the city of Trieste, one bit into the southern flank of the Alps front in the multi-year series of Isonzo . The direct passage through the Canal Valley was not an option, so that there was hardly any acts of war in the area. Only after the “ Miracle of Good Freit ” (Kobarid), the surprising march through the Austrians and Germans at the end of October 1917, did the Battle of Ragogna and the breakthrough of Cornino take place here (October 30 to November 3, 1917). The front was now on the Piave, and until 1918 the position was held by the Austrians as a security line against a recoil by the Italians. At the end of the war after the battle of Vittorio Veneto in the autumn of 1918, the Austro-Hungarian army was generally dissolved without any resistance.

perpetration

The ruins of the positions can be explored as an easy hike, the Museo della Grande Guerra di Ragogna (Museum of the Great War) and the Gruppo Storico Friuli Collinare also offer guided tours.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.turismofvg.it/Monumenti-e-Siti-Storici/Forte-Col-Roncone
  2. ↑ http://www.montagnando.it/fortificazioni/fortefagagna/fortefagagna.php
  3. ↑ http://www.itinerarigrandeguerra.it/Forte-Di-Monte-Bernadia-Lonza
  4. ↑ http://www.fortificazioni.net/Udine/LONZA.htm
  5. ↑ a b c Information board Fortezza Medio Tagliamento on Monte Campeon, Provincia di Udine; Illustration: Batteria permanente di Monte Campeon. Didiebrina, on youreporter.it, January 15, 2015, accessed October 7, 2015 ( direct photo , cloudfront.net).
  6. ↑ a b c The sites of the First World War in the Friulian hill country: The historical framework (I luoghi della Grande Guerra nel Friuli Collinare). Comune Ragogna: grandeguerra-ragogna.it; a website for the Interreg III / A Italy-Austria project.
  7. ^ A b I Forti Italiani e Austriaci in Friuli Venezia Giulia. memoriatours.eu, accessed October 7, 2015.
  8. ↑ http://www.turismofvg.it/Sfogliabili/Mappe_Tematiche/Tedesco/Mtem_DE04_Erster_Weltkrieg/files/assets/basic-html/page14.html
  9. ↑ a b Battery of Monte Campeon. itinerarigrandeguerra.com, accessed October 7, 2015.
  10. ^ Monte Campeon. sentierinatura.it, accessed October 7, 2015.
  11. ↑ Monte Faeit 734 m near Artegna-Gemona. Tour formum Mountain Rescue Carinthia, March 4, 2012, accessed October 7, 2015.
  12. ↑ guided tours. grandeguerra-ragogna.it.