Passo Pian delle Fugazze

Passo Pian delle Fugazze
Pass height in the direction of the Valli del Pasubio
Compass direction	northwest	east
Pass height	1163  m slm
province	Trento (Region Trentino-South Tyrol )	Vicenza ( Veneto region )
Watershed	Leno → Etsch	Leogra → Timonchio → Bacchiglione
Valley locations	Vallarsa	Valli del Pasubio
expansion	Pass road SS46 / SP46
Mountains	Vicentine Alps
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Coordinates	45 ° 45 ′ 37 "  N , 11 ° 10 ′ 24"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 45 ′ 37 "  N , 11 ° 10 ′ 24"  E

The Passo Pian delle Fugazze is a 1163  m slm high mountain pass between the Italian provinces of Trento and Vicenza .

Location and surroundings

The pass is bordered in the north by the Pasubio and in the south by the mountain range of the Sengio Alto . It represents the transition from Vallarsa (German outdated Brandtal ) with the Trentino municipality of the same name to Val Leogra, which belongs to the Vicentine municipality of Valli del Pasubio . The municipality boundary between Vallarsa and Valli del Pasubio, which is also the provincial border, is a little east of the actual one Pass height.

The Strada Statale 46 del Pasubio leads over the pass, declassified on the Vicentine side since 2001 as Strada Provinciale 46 del Pasubio, which connects Rovereto with Vicenza . At the top of the pass, the Strada Provinciale 219 di Camposilvano , coming from the north-west, ends at the top of the pass, which leads to the district of the same name in the municipality of Vallarsa, and in the south-east the so-called Strada del Re (German road of the king ), built in 1918 by King Victor Emanuel III. Dedicated road that connects Passo Pian delle Fugazze with Passo di Campogrosso east of Sengio Alto . On this road there is also the junction to the Ossario del Pasubio , the ossuary with the remains of around 5000 mainly Italian fallen soldiers from the First World War of the Pasubio Front. From the junction, the Strada del Re to Passo di Campogrosso is closed to traffic.

history

Memorial stone to the battle of April 25, 1848

The 579 pass is mentioned for the first time in a document. However, the Romans probably built a branch of the Via Claudia Augusta over the pass around 400 AD . The latter was used by the Lombards and Hungarians during the Great Migration to advance from the Adige Valley via the Vallarsa into the Venetian lowlands.

During the Venetian expansion phase in southern Trentino, which came to an abrupt end with the Battle of Calliano in 1487, the pass was an important passage for the Venetian troops. After the defeat of Venice in the Battle of Agnadello in 1509, the Pian delle Fugazze became the border pass between the Republic of Venice and the Habsburgs .

In the spring of 1701, Eugene of Savoy's troops came over the pass from Vallarsa during the War of the Spanish Succession , after the French, under the command of Nicolas de Catinat, blocked the passage through the Veronese hermitage .

After years of border disputes, in 1751, under the government of Maria Theresa, the exact course of the border at the Pian delle Fugazze was regulated by mutual agreement with the Republic of Venice. A boundary stone with the coat of arms of the Habsburgs and the Lion of St. Mark a few meters from the pass road dates from this time.

In 1792 Venice decided to build a road over the pass, to which the municipality of Schio wanted to contribute financially. The Napoleonic era, during which the Doge Republic was dissolved in 1797, delayed the implementation of the project. Construction work finally began in 1802 and ten years later the eastern pass road in Val Leogra reached the Pian delle Fugazze. The road, now known as Strada Regia , was finally completed under Emperor Franz I. In 1822 the last section in Vallarsa was opened after the access from Schio had already been completed in 1818.

During the First War of Independence took place on April 25, 1848 at Pian delle Fugazze to a battle between Italian volunteer corps under the command of the originating from Schio poet and patriot Arnaldo Fusinato and Austrian troops. A memorial stone erected on the former imperial border in 1898 commemorates this event.

After the Third Italian War of Independence in 1866, the pass also formed the border between Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy . In 1906 a bus service was established over the pass between Schio and Rovereto. A planned railway connection over the pass was first discussed in 1864. In 1899 a corresponding project was even presented with a tunnel running under the pass. However, it was never carried out.

After the Italian entry into the war in World War I, the Pian delle Fugazze was occupied by Italian troops on May 24, 1915. From 1916 to 1918 it represented an important stage for the Italian Pasubiofront. In 1937, with the completion of the Strada degli Eroi, a road connection from the pass to the Rifugio Achille Papa was opened, which was open to traffic until the 1990s.

literature

• Alberto Alpago Novello: Prolegomeni al riconoscimento della via militare Claudia Augusta a flumine Pado in: Atti della Accademia Roveretana degli Agiati . Fasc. A, Contributi della classe di scienze umane, di lettere ed arti, Ser. 6, vol. 21 (1981), pp. 135-148, Rovereto 1981 ( PDF )
• Carlo Battisti : Pian de le Fugazze. In: Paolo Chiarini (Ed.): Filologia e critica: studi in onore di Vittorio Santoli . Bulzoni, Rome 1976.
• Renato Bortoli: A 150 anni dalla costruzione della strada Schio - Pian delle Fugazze. In: Eventi e figure nella Schio del 1817 e 1867 , Biblioteca Civica Schio, Schio 1967.
• Remo Bussolon, Aldina Martini: La Vallarsa attraverso la storia: Dalle origini alla Prima Guerra Mondiale . La Grafica, Mori 2007.
• Gianni Pieropan: Guida dei Monti d'Italia. Piccole Dolomiti - Pasubio. CAI - TCI , Milan 1978.

Web links

Commons : Passo Pian delle Fugazze  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Passo Pian delle Fugazze at quaeldich.de
• Passo Pian delle Fugazze at gs-enduro.de
• Passo Pian delle Fugazze at alpenrouten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gianni Pieropan: Guida dei Monti d'Italia. Piccole Dolomiti - Pasubio. P. 78
2. ^ Carlo Battisti: Pian de le Fugazze p. 171
3. ^ Alberto Alpago Novello: Prolegomeni al riconoscimento della via militare Claudia Augusta a flumine Pado pp. 138-140
4. ↑ Remo Bussolon, Aldina Martini: La Vallarsa attraverso la storia: Dalle origini alla Prima Guerra Mondiale S. 28-29
5. ↑ Remo Bussolon, Aldina Martini: La Vallarsa attraverso la storia: Dalle origini alla Prima Guerra Mondiale p.113
6. ↑ Remo Bussolon, Aldina Martini: La Vallarsa attraverso la storia: Dalle origini alla Prima Guerra Mondiale S. 173-174
7. ↑ Remo Bussolon, Aldina Martini: La Vallarsa attraverso la storia: Dalle origini alla Prima Guerra Mondiale S. 215-216
8. ↑ Renato Bortoli: A 150 anni dalla costruzione della strada Schio - Pian delle Fugazze pp. 57–61
9. ^ Short biography Arnaldo Fusinato (Italian) accessed on September 27, 2018
10. ↑ Renato Bortoli: A 150 anni dalla costruzione della strada Schio - Pian delle Fugazze p. 63