Feuerschwand barrier
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The Feuerschwand barrier (army designation no. 2408 Fürschwand-Gubel) was a border fortification of the Swiss army . It was located at the Reduite entrance in the Fürschwand-Chnollen area in the canton of Zug . The base of the Reduit Line was built from October 1940, belonged to the operational area of the 6th Division and from 1947 to the Reduit Brigade 24 .
As one of the main bases of the defense front of the 6th Division, the blocking point is a military-historical monument of national importance.
history
During the Second World War , the new army position in the Reduit ordered by General Guisan (Operation Orders No. 11, 12, 13) gave the impetus for the construction of the lock point. The 6th Division was withdrawn from the Limmat position to reinforce the left wing of the 4th Army Corps and was given the task of building the line west of the Etzel - Schindellegi - with its four detachments "Biberbrücke", "Alosen", "Zugerberg" and "Rigi" Gottschalkenberg-Zugerberg-Rigi to hold up to Lake Lucerne and to prevent the opponent from advancing into the Schwyz basin . Advance troops were supposed to prevent an enemy landing on the left bank of Lake Zurich (Oberrieden to Bäch).
The majority of the division was to take up a defensive position behind the Sihl on the Finstersee-Gubel-Allenhaben-Süd exit Zug line, and a department had to close off the area between the Zuger and Vierwaldstättersee lakes with the Oberarth barrier . The order remained unchanged until the end of the reduction period.
The Feuerschwand and Raten barriers formed the section of the reduit border between the Unterägeri barrier and the Schindellegi barrier . This wooded area had some road crossings on which the main road along the Lorze could be bypassed. The blocking points were intended to prevent such a circumvention through an enemy advance from Menzingen in the direction of Ägerisee and Sattel . When building this section of the Reduit Line, the 6th Division took into account its experiences from the Uetliberg Fortress on the Limmat position. From 1940 onwards, more than 150 properties were built in the Canton of Zug within months - carried out by civilian construction companies.
The fortress disposition consisted of several partial barriers, which reinforced the defensive struggle of the infantry regiments and fusilier battalions with tank and infantry obstacles and explosive objects as well as infantry bunkers. They could request artillery fire from the mobile artillery, partly from concrete gun emplacements and from artillery works.
Feuerschwand barrier
The blocking point comprised around 15 infantry units, 10 street barricades and terrain armor obstacles. Flab protection was provided by 20 mm flab cannons in field positions and two flab towers. The construction of the tank obstacles began in October 1940, the bunkers were built from March 1941:
- Shelter Gschwend 3 A 7220 ⊙
- Shelter Gschwend 2 A 7221 ⊙
- Permanent weapon position Infantry Gschwend 1 A 7222: Tank rifle (Tb) ⊙
- Permanent weapon position Infantry Gschwend 2 A 7223: Tb ⊙
- Permanent weapon position Infantry Zinggenbach A 7224: Tb ⊙
- Infantry bunker Gschwend A 7225: 7.5 cm field cannon ⊙
- Shelter Hölloch 1 A 7226 ⊙
- Shelter Hölloch 2 A 7227 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Schurtannen A 7228 ⊙
- Schurtannen shelter 4 A 7229 ⊙
- Schurtannen shelter 3 A 7230 ⊙
- Schurtannen shelter 2 A 7231 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Schurtannenweid A 7232: Tb mobil ⊙
- Infantry bunker Feuerschwand 1 south A 7233: Mg, Lmg / Ob ⊙
- Infantry bunker Feuerschwand 2 North Mg / Ob A 7234: Mg, Lmg / Ob ⊙
Infantry bunker Gschwend 2 A 7223
Infantry bunker Schurtannen A 7228 7.5 cm field cannon
Feuerschwand 1 south A 7233
Feuerschwand 2 North A 7234
- Shelter Gubel A 7235 ⊙
- Explosive object side street Oberägeri-Menzingen M 2653
- GPH Feuerschwand T 3650 ⊙
- Barricade Feuerschwand Bridge T 3650.01
- GPH Schurtannenweid T 3651 ⊙
- Barricade Schurtannenweid Strasse T 3651.01
- Barricade Schurtannen left bridge T 3651.02 ⊙
- Barricade Schurtannen right bridge T 3651.03
- GPH Zinggenbach T 3652 ⊙
- Barricade Zinggenbach T 3652.01
- Barricade Zinggenbach T 3652.02
- GPH Gschwend T 3653 ⊙
- Barricade Gschwend T 3653.01 ⊙
- Barricade Lohmatt Seestrasse T 3667
- GPH Lohmatt upper way T 3667.01
- Barricade Lohmatt Landstrasse T 3668
GPH Feuerschwand T 3650
Schurtannenweid tank wall T 3651
GPH Schurtannen T 3651
GPH Gschwend T 3653
Lockout rates
The Raten barrier (Army designation No. 2413) was connected to the Feuerschwand barrier on the right. She should make a breakthrough over the rates-St. Prevent Jost into the Ägerital and towards the Sattel and vice versa. The Fusilier Battalion 65 occupied eight infantry bunkers with machine guns (MG). The aviator cover was secured with 20 mm flab cannons, one of them on a wooden flab tower.
The partial barrier Altmatt-Schönboden had to stop opponents who had penetrated from the Biberbrücke area. Three bunkers (7.5 cm field cannons, Mg), a 4.7 cm Ik bunker, two Mg bunkers and a small shelter were occupied by the 71 fusilier battalion. In the rear there were two artillery command posts (A 7204, A 7205). Flab Detachment 74 had set up three 20 mm Flab cannons.
- Gottschalkenberg shelter 8 A 7172 ⊙
- Gottschalkenberg shelter 7 A 7173 ⊙
- Gottschalkenberg shelter 6 A 7174 ⊙
- Gottschalkenberg shelter 3 A 7175 ⊙
- Gottschalkenberg shelter 2 A 7176 ⊙
- Gottschalkenberg shelter 1 A 7177 ⊙
- Gottschalkenberg shelter 4 A 7178 ⊙
- Gottschalkenberg shelter 5 A 7179 ⊙
- Lacki shelter 1 A 7180 ⊙
- Lacki shelter 2 A 7181 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Käfigbach 1 North A 7182: Mg, Lmg / Ob ⊙
- Infantry bunker Käfigbach 2 Süd A 7183: Mg, 2 Lmg / Ob ⊙
- Shelter Alosen 2 A 7184 ⊙
- Shelter Alosen 1 A 7185 ⊙
- Bunker for mobile Mg Alosen 3 A 7186 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Alosen A 7187: Mg, Lmg / Ob ⊙
- Alosen Schwand train shelter ⊙
Käfigbach 1 North A 7182
Käfigbach 2 South A 7183
Alosen Schwand train shelter
- Infantry bunker rates 8 A 7188: Mg, Lmg / Ob ⊙
- Infantry Bunker St. Jost Rates 7 A 7189: Mg, Lmg / Ob ⊙
- Infantry bunker rates 6 A 7190: Mg, 2 Lmg / ob ⊙
- Infantry bunker rates 5 A 7191: Mg, Lmg / Ob ⊙
- Infantry bunker rates 4 A 7192: Mg, Lmg / Ob ⊙
- Infantry bunker rates 3 A 7193: Mg, Lmg / Ob ⊙
- Infantry bunker rates 2 A 7194: Mg, Lmg / Ob ⊙
- Infantry bunker rates 1 A 7195: Mg, 2 Lmg / Ob A 7195 ⊙
- Wildspitz shelter 3 A 7155 ⊙
- Permanent mine blockage road Haltsäge ⊙
- Small shelter Finsterseebrücke Bostadel ⊙
- Small shelter Nettenbach ⊙
- Small shelter floor 1 ⊙
- Small shelter floor 2 ⊙
Gottschalkenberg shelter
Infantry Bunker Raten 3 A 7193
Infantry bunker rates 1 A 7195
Infantry bunker rates
- Shelter Schönenboden 4 A 7200 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Schönenboden 3 A 7201 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Schönenboden 2 A 7202 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Schönenboden 1 A 7203 ⊙
- Cavern KP Rank fire control center artillery department (Flst Art Abt) A 7204 ⊙
- Cavern KP Foundling (Flst Art Abt) A 7205 ⊙
Schönenboden shelter 4 A 7200
Infantry bunker Schönenboden 3 A 7201
Infantry bunker Schönenboden 2 A 7202
Infantry bunker Schönenboden 1 A 7203
Cavern KP Rank fire control center artillery department A 7204
- Infantry bunker Altmatt 3 SOB A 7206 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Altmatt 2 A 7207 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Altmatt 1 A 7208 ⊙
Infantry bunker Altmatt 3 SOB A 7206
Infantry bunker Altmatt 3 SOB A 7206
Infantry bunker Altmatt 2 A 7207
Infantry bunker Altmatt 2 A 7207
- Explosive object street Alosen-Raten M 2677 ⊙
- Barricade Altmatt Strasse T 3640 ⊙
- Barricade Bahn Altmatt-SOB T 3641 ⊙
- Barricade Dorfbach-Oberägeri T 3669
- Barricade Strasse Oberägeri-Alosen T 3669
- Barricade Alosen T3670
- Barricade Zigerhüttli-Grindel T 3671 ⊙
- Barricade Waldschlag-Grindel T 3671.01
- Barricade Zwischenbäch-Rämsli T 3672
- Barricade Zwischenbäch-Harüti T 3672.01
- Barricade Ländli T 3673
- Flab Tower
Anti-aircraft guided missile position BL-64 ZG "Bloodhound"
The former anti-aircraft missile position BL-64 "Bloodhound" ⊙ , located between Gubel and Neuhof, is the only surviving one of the six Bloodhound missile positions that were permanently set up in the Swiss plateau and Jura and kept in high readiness without interruption. The plant was in operation from 1964 to 1999. The southern fire unit was then dismantled, while the northern one remained and was placed under monument protection in 2000. Today it serves as a museum and can be visited during guided tours.
Military history foundation of the canton of Zug
The Military History Foundation of the Canton of Zug secures, acquires and maintains structural witnesses from the Second World War and the Cold War period in the Canton of Zug in order to make them accessible to science and the public.
literature
- David Külling, Manfred Hildebrand, Maurice Lovisa: Military monuments in the area of the air force. Ed .: Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport , Bern 2008 (PDF; 7.1 MB).
- Silvio Keller, Maurice Lovisa, Thomas Bitterli: Military monuments in the cantons of Uri, Schwyz and Zug. Inventory of the combat and command structures. Ed .: Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport , Bern 2005 (PDF; 2.1 MB).
Web links
- Website of the Military History Foundation of the Canton of Zug - with all necessary information on visits to the fortresses and the “Bloodhound” museum complex
- Website ZDT - The Military History Foundation of the Canton of Zug is the founder and member organization of the Zuger Depot Technikgeschichte association in the former Neuheim ZG armory
- Bunker friends: Gubel ZG facilities
- Bunker friends: Plant rates ZG
- Bunker friends: Facilities Raten Ost
- Fortress Oberland: Video lock point Rothenthurm SZ
Individual evidence
- ↑ Feuerschwand barrier. In: Silvio Keller, Maurice Lovisa, Thomas Bitterli: Military monuments in the cantons of Uri, Schwyz and Zug. Inventory of the combat and command structures. Ed .: Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport , Bern 2005 (PDF; 2.1 MB)
- ^ Valentin Kessler: The fortifications in the canton of Schwyz . Reprint from the communications of the Historical Association of the Canton Schwyz, issue 95, 2003
- ↑ Fortress Oberland: Lock point Feuerschwand-Gubel ZG
- ^ Military historical foundation of the canton of Zug: Maps of the works
- ↑ Oberland Fortress: Altmatt-Schönboden restricted area
- ↑ David Külling, Manfred Hildebrand, Maurice Lovisa: Military monuments in the area of the air force. Ed .: Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport , Bern 2008 (PDF; 7.1 MB)
- ↑ Matthias Böhni: Appearance on the Gubel. Of sisters and missiles. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 2, 2013, accessed November 2, 2013
Coordinates: 47 ° 8 '8 " N , 8 ° 39' 6.9" E ; CH1903: 692,042 / 221218