Pumhart from Steyr

The Pumhart von Steyr is a giant medieval gun from Styria in Austria and the largest known wrought-iron bombard in terms of caliber .

history

The stone rifle was made in the early 15th century using bar ring technology and is one of the oldest guns in the world. According to today's calculations, it could shoot a stone ball weighing 690 kg with a powder load of 15 kg and an elevation of 10 ° approx. 600 m. Today it is exhibited in one of the artillery halls of the Army History Museum in Vienna and is only open to the public from March to October.

The stone rifle is the oldest preserved gun from the holdings of the Imperial Armory in Vienna. According to the arsenal tradition, it became Emperor Friedrich III. given. Which Pumhart von Steyr is one of a series of Ries Enge shooters that were used in the 15th century siege warfare including the rod ring guns Mons Meg and Dulle Griet Ghent and manufactured in cast bronze Lazy Mette of Brunswick , Lazy Grete of Marienburg and Grose Bochse to count are.

technical description

Type of protection: Bombard
Gun class: giant guns (stone rifles)

Type: wrought iron bar ring gun

Total length: 259 cm

Chamber length: 115 cm

Flight length: 128 cm

Caliber: 76 cm at the end of the flight, 88 cm at the muzzle

Weight: 7100 kg or approx. 8000 kg

Ball diameter: about 80 cm

Ball weight: 690 kg

Load: about 15 kg of black powder

literature

Army History Museum / Military History Institute (ed.): The Army History Museum in the Vienna Arsenal . Verlag Militaria , Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-902551-69-6 , p. 170
Christian Ortner : The “Pumhart von Steyr” , Vienna 2018, online in the HGM knowledge blog .
Volker Schmidtchen : giant guns of the 15th century. Technical top performances of their time . In: History of Technology . tape 44 , no. 2 , 1977, ISSN 0040-117X , p. 153-173 (here: 162-164) .
Bernhard Rathgen: The Gun in the Middle Ages , VDI-Verlag, Berlin, 1928. ( online at archive.org )

Web links

Commons : Pumhart von Steyr - collection of images, videos and audio files

Pumhart in the Army History Museum in Vienna

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Volker Schmidtchen : giant guns of the 15th century. Technical top performances of their time . In: History of Technology . tape 44 , no. 2 , 1977, ISSN 0040-117X , p. 162 .
↑ Volker Schmidtchen: giant guns of the 15th century. Technical top performances of their time . In: History of Technology . tape 44 , no. 2 , 1977, ISSN 0040-117X , p. 163 .
↑ Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Ed.): The Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna. Vienna / Graz 1960, p. 60
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Volker Schmidtchen: Bombards, fortifications, gunsmiths: From the first wall breakers of the late Middle Ages to the siege artillery of the Renaissance . Droste, Düsseldorf 1977, ISBN 3-7700-0471-X , p. 33-32 .
^ Manfried Rauchsteiner , Manfred Litscher (ed.): The Army History Museum in Vienna. Graz, Vienna 2000 p. 94.

[Schmidtchen-162-1] Volker Schmidtchen : giant guns of the 15th century. Technical top performances of their time . In: History of Technology . tape 44 , no. 2 , 1977, ISSN 0040-117X , p. 162 .

[Schmidtchen-163-2] Volker Schmidtchen: giant guns of the 15th century. Technical top performances of their time . In: History of Technology . tape 44 , no. 2 , 1977, ISSN 0040-117X , p. 163 .

[3] Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Ed.): The Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna. Vienna / Graz 1960, p. 60

[Schmidtchen-33-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Volker Schmidtchen: Bombards, fortifications, gunsmiths: From the first wall breakers of the late Middle Ages to the siege artillery of the Renaissance . Droste, Düsseldorf 1977, ISBN 3-7700-0471-X , p. 33-32 .

[RauchensteinerLitscher-5] Manfried Rauchsteiner , Manfred Litscher (ed.): The Army History Museum in Vienna. Graz, Vienna 2000 p. 94.