Pontlatzer bridge
Coordinates: 47 ° 6 ′ 20 ″ N , 10 ° 39 ′ 40 ″ E
| Pontlatzer bridge | ||
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| use | Street | |
| Crossing of | Inn | |
| place | Flow | |
| construction | Arch bridge | |
| overall length | 63 m | |
| height | 8.2 m | |
| completion | 1899 | |
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| Above sea level | 863 m above sea level A. | |
The Pontlatzer Bridge (also Pontlatzbrücke ) is a road bridge over the Inn in the upper Tyrolean Inn Valley between Fließ and Prutz, approx. 12 km south of Landeck .
history
At the point of the Pontlatzer bridge, the Roman Via Claudia crossed the Inn. The name is derived from "Pons Ladis", which means bridge from Ladis . Over the bridge, the road coming from Landeck and south along the Inn changed to Reschen and the Engadin from the right bank to the left bank of the Inn.
The bottleneck at the bridge provided an ambush for the defenders against Bavarian troops twice, in the War of Spanish Succession in 1703 and in the Napoleonic Wars in 1809 .
When the Bavarian Elector Maximilian II Emanuel occupied Tyrol in 1703 , a troop of 300 men marching to the Reschen Pass in July was largely wiped out by stone avalanches and by riflemen posted on the slopes . This success with minor own losses was the signal for an uprising, and Max Emanuel was just able to flee Innsbruck on July 26th .
When Bavarian troops marched into Tyrol in 1809, they were caught in a slaughter on July 8th and 9th between the bridges of Pontlatz and Prutz, again with minor losses among the Tyroleans. This battle is counted as one of the three great victories against Napoleon, but it was nowhere near as important as the battle of 1703.
Until 1978, the Pontlatzer Bridge formed the official border between the then judicial district of Ried im Oberinntal and the judicial district of Landeck . The area that was subject to the Ried court is still called the Upper Court today .
The fights at the Pontlatzer Bridge gave names to the Pontlatz barracks in Landeck and the Pontlatzer Strasse in Innsbruck.
bridge
Today's bridge is an iron arch bridge from 1899. It consists of an iron semi-parabolic beam with a clear width of 63 meters, most of which lies under the roadway. The bridge is a listed building . Due to the fact that the Reschenstrasse is continuous in this area on the right bank of the Inn, it is of little importance for road traffic today.
monument
To commemorate the fighting in 1703 and 1809, there is a monument that was erected in 1904 on the Pontlatzer Bridge on the left bank of the Inn. A bronze eagle with outstretched wings and a flag in its claws rises on a natural stone wall plinth. A relief of the Madonna and Child and the inscription “1703 - 1809” are attached to the base. The monument is also a listed building .
literature
- Wolfgang Meighörner : Conflictus turbulentus, clamorosus, sed victorius . An assessment of the events at the Pontlatzer bridge in 1809, in: Sporer-Heis, Claudia (Ed.): Tyrol in its old limits. Festschrift for Meinrad Pizzinini. Innsbruck: Wagner 2008, pp. 139–164.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Gruber, Wiesauer: road bridge, Pontlatzer bridge. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved June 29, 2015 .
- ↑ Gruber, Wiesauer: Monument at the Pontlatzer bridge. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved June 29, 2015 .