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Al Buso
Dossaccio plant

The Paneveggio barrier consisted of the "Albuso roadblock" and the "Dossaccio remote combat plant" and belonged to Subrayon IV of the Austro-Hungarian chain of fortresses against Italy. It is located in the Dolomites and defended the Travignola Valley with access from St. Martin over the Rolle Pass into the Fassa Valley and the Fiemme Valley .
The roadblock secured the Rolle Pass road in direct protection, while the remote combat facility secured the entire area.

Roadblock Albuso

It was also called "Buso", "Al Buso" or "Forte Buso" by the Italians and is now located next to the "Lago di Forte Buso" reservoir, which was built after the Second World War .
The barrier was built in rubble stone masonry in 1889/1892 and was therefore only considered grenade-proof / storm-free despite the modernization that took place in 1912. The barrier was armed with six 9 cm M4 casemate cannons . The facility was not attacked by infantry and the Italian artillery did not cause any major damage. The building, which is in an excellent state of construction, is used and also maintained by an electricity company.

Dossaccio plant

Like its Vorwerk Albuso, it was built in masonry in 1889/1892 and modernized in 1912. The basic artillery equipment was:

At the beginning of the war in 1915, however, the reinforcement consisted only of:

  • 4 × 10 cm M 5 tank mortar

According to the ground plan with a broken front, the work lies on the so-called elephant back (Dossaccio ). It consisted of a battery case with a front trench and a covered postern as an observation post. There was also an armored headlight stand on the right flank and below the system. In 1915/16 the armored domes with the guns were removed and rebuilt a few kilometers north in prepared concrete positions. This artillery position was reinforced by two field cannons.

The now empty gun wells of the plant were filled with concrete and, for purposes of deception, provided with dummy domes made of concrete (are still there), into which tree trunks were stuck.

In 1915 and 1916, the factory artillery was heavily involved in the defense against Italian attacks in the Rollepass and Colbricon area.

Italian artillery attacks with 28 cm howitzers were carried out only half-heartedly; There was almost no damage to the system, only the postern collapsed.

Dossaccio is owned by the state forest administration and can only be entered with permission.

literature

  • Erwin Anton Grestenberger: Imperial and Royal fortifications in Tyrol and Carinthia 1860–1918 . Verlag Österreich ua, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-8132-0747-1 .
  • Moritz Ritter von Brunner: The permanent fortification (The kuk military education institutions) . 7th, completely revised edition, Seidel, Vienna 1909.

Coordinates: 46 ° 18 ′ 14 "  N , 11 ° 43 ′ 25"  E