Ramsau-Molln shooting range
The Ramsau-Molln shooting range ( Spl Ramsau , commonly also Hopfing military training area, etc.) is a shooting range of the Austrian Armed Forces in the southern Traunviertel in Upper Austria .
location
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 38.2 " N , 14 ° 15 ′ 39.4" E
The shooting range is located in the central Steyrtal , southwest of Molln in the village of Ramsau . The training area is in a remote area of Mollner mountains, at the northern foot of Sengsen promontory in unpopulated Hintertal of Hopfing , right on the borders of the National Park Limestone Alps .
The facility is located at 605 m above sea level. A. between the Ramsauer Großestenberg in the northeast (Vorberg: Kaumberg), Schöneck in the east, Rohrauer Großestenberg in the southeast, Hochsengs in the southeast, and Schwarzkogel in the northwest. Before the shooting range, the Urlachbachtal branches off to the west on the left side of the valley , at the southeast end the Niklbachtal runs eastwards to Feichtau .
history
The Hopfing shooting range , as it was originally called, was laid out by the Americans in 1945 and used for infantry shooting training as well as the demining service . Later the B-Gendarmerie was also on duty here. After the end of the occupation, the site was taken over by the newly established armed forces in 1955 and placed on a long-term basis through lease agreements with the landowners.
The facility was originally a simple facility that today could be described as "shooting in the open air". In the beginning there was only one tent camp at the north end of the complex, only the armed forces built barracks (old camp). This became unusable in the 1960s after a landslide due to an earthquake. The warehouse was then rebuilt a good kilometer out of the valley in Hopfing from 1972. From 1970 the facility was also converted to bunker construction, and in 1982 a company building was added. At that time, Ramsau was considered one of the most modern shooting ranges in Europe. Because the armed forces declared the place unsuitable for testing the Voest-Alpine GHN-45 “Bull” gun , a suitable large shooting range in the Reichraminger Hintergebirge was discussed in the early 1980s . Protests against these plans made the national park project for the mountain area popular at the time (cannon production was then relocated to Noricum in Liezen).
After the establishment of the national park in 1996, which completely surrounds the area on the mountain side, and because the Ramsau is an important access point for visitors, it was declared a restricted area in 2002 with controlled transit times. In 2005–2008 the facility was completely renovated, with modern shooting ranges, and including a waste separation system and sewage treatment plant.
Plant and operation
The firing range area covers around 82 hectares, the entire safety zone 150 hectares, the entire leased area up to the national park borders 260 hectares. It is the smallest Austrian military training area.
The facility has nine shooting ranges with the associated infrastructure (weapon information as of 2010):
- three short track systems for target practice with the StG77 , the P80 and the MG74 at 30 meters
- one run up to 200 meters, four up to 300/350 meters, one up to 800 meters
- five cross-running goals and two running goals in a straight run (towards the shooter)
- additional shooting range tank base with a target distance of 1.2 kilometers up to a caliber of 105 mm
- Getting used to and instruction blasting area , training and fragmentation hand grenade throwing system
The accommodations comprise a total of 212 beds.
The Ramsau / Molln shooting range is subordinate to the Upper Austria Military Command (MilKdoOÖ - Upper Austria Troop Training Command TÜPlKdo OÖ). Army sports clubs also train here . In addition, tests are being carried out by the Office for Armaments and Defense Technology (ARWT).
The facility is a restricted area and only accessible to mountain hikers by the hour on weekdays. Conversely, it is temporarily out of service during the autumn hunting season (Ramsau owned by the Federal Forests ).
Since the restricted area is also an important wetland habitat, the armed forces are involved in amphibian protection together with the Upper Austrian Academy for the Environment and Nature of the State. It is excluded from the national park (borders around 700–800 m above sea level), but apart from the direct shooting range, it is part of the associated European protected area (EU03) .
literature
- Gerhard Oberreiter: Ramsau-Molln shooting range. A service facility for the troops. In. Troop service, episode 312, issue 6/2009 ( online , bundesheer.at)
Web links
- Closure times of the hiking trail through the Ramsau / Molln shooting range (on bundesheer.at).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j lit. Oberreiter 2009.
- ↑ Peter Pilz: Die Panzermacher: the Austrian armaments industry and its exports. Volume 10 of Austrian texts on social criticism. Publishing House for Social Criticism, 1982, p. 28.
- ↑ Working Group for Austrian History, Institute for Austrian Studies : Austria in History and Literature Volume 37 (1993), p. 286
- ↑ This also subject to the garrison training area Treffling , the Alpine training ground commander-Obertraun and shooting Alharting .
- ↑ cf. Experiment: Shoot like the ancient Romans. Upper Austria today , June 26, 2017, online on ORF
- ↑ zones B resp. B1, C1 according to LGBl. No. 16/2018 .