Barrier-free gate in Gienstorf
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The barrier point at Gibstorf was a barrier built by the Swiss Army from 1939 to 1940 during the Second World War to prevent the enemy from advancing into the Reuss Valley in the direction of Gotthard .
After the Urdorf closure point, Gibstorf was the most important closure point (“passage obligé” of the Reuss valley axis) of the Limmat position . Gibstorf-Nord is a restricted area of national importance, and Gibstorf-Ost is of regional importance.
history
One month after the beginning of the Second World War , General Guisan ordered the deployment of the army from the standby position to the Limmat position on October 4, 1939, with "Operation Order No. 2". With the connection Sargans - Walensee - Zürichsee - Limmat - Bözberg - Hauenstein , it became the first line of defense of the Swiss Army in an attack from the north. This was fortified from September 27, 1939, including the barrier point at Gibstorf.
The narrow area at the northern edge of the village of Gibstorf between the Reussinsel and the Gibstorfer Horn was considered a weak wing of the 3rd Army Corps . Units of the 8th Division fortified the narrow area from 1939 to 1940 with a tank barrier and a bunker line. The southern banks of the Aare and Reuss were secured with five bunkers and explosive objects in the railway and road bridges over both rivers. The Gibstorf-Nord Barrier was connected to the fortifications in the Gibstorfer Horn area (Gibstorf-Ost Barrier).
After the fall of France at the end of June 1940, the army command ordered the suspension of almost all fortification work, as the Limmat position had lost its importance for the time being and the general had decided to withdraw the bulk of the army to the Reduit .
From the autumn of 1940 to 1943, 250 Polish soldiers were interned in Gibstorf who were forced to go to Switzerland during the western campaign . They were employed in road building and the cultivation battle . Only the Steigstrasse detention facility and tombs in the cemetery remain from the former Polish camp.
During the Cold War , the lock was strengthened and modernized. It belonged to the operational area of Field Division 5 .
Barrier-free gate in Gienstorf
- Vogelsang infantry bunker A 4076 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Vogelsangstrasse A 4077 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Reussinsel-Nord A 4078 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Reuss-Insel Süd 1 A 4079 Mg, observer, round rifle gallery ⊙
- Infantry bunker Reuss-Insel Süd 2 A 4080 Ik, Mg, observer ⊙
- Schächlistrasse infantry bunker ⊙
- Hand grenade throwing stand Winterhalde A 4092 ⊙
- Infantry bunker / observer «Bobbi» Unter dem Horn A 4093 ⊙
Vogelsang infantry bunker A 4076
"Bobbi" infantry bunker at Gibstorfer Horn A 4093
Observer tower at Gibstorfer Horn
Give-away Horn shelter
- Infantry bunker Rieden-Nord A 4101, Ik, observer, 12 men ⊙
- Infantry bunker Rieden-Süd A 4102 ⊙
- Birchmatten infantry bunker A 4103 Ik, Mg, observer ⊙
- Birchhölzli shelter A 4104 ⊙
- Observer Birchmatten A 4105 (Sch Mot Kan Bttr 116) ⊙
- Pak garage Brunnacker A 4110 ⊙
- Shelter Steig A 4111 ⊙
- Pak garage Steig / Eichhözli A 4112 ⊙
- Pak garage Eichhölzli A 4114 ⊙
- Shelter Stettberg A 4115 ⊙
- Bolleren A 4117 ⊙ shelter
- Lattice tower artillery observer with shelter, Hornebni ⊙
- Mg bunker «Julia» Sand ⊙
- Mg bunker sand ⊙
- Command post, Mountain Infantry Regiment 19 Eichhölzli ⊙
- Artillery observer Erli ⊙
- Accommodation cavern for 120 men ⊙
- Tank barrier GPHhabenstorf-Nord 1940, reinforcement 1944 ⊙
- Tank lock 1944 with two shelters ⊙
Tank barrier GPHhabenstorf-Nord 1940/44
Mg bunker "Julia"
Explosive object railway bridge Reuss
Polish soldiers' graves
Lock point Baden
The blocking point in the Baden area was part of the main line of defense of the Limmat position. The partial closures in the middle section of the 8th Division had the order to prevent an advance and ascent to the plateau of the Gibstorfer Horn.
In 1939/40 troops of the 8th Division built armories, observers, a crew shelter and a tank barrier along the wooded slope above the Limmat (Kappelerhof) and in the Eichtal (Münzlishausen). In 1941 they fortified the narrowing of the main street Brugg – Baden west of the Kappelerhof with an anti-tank obstacle.
The Baden-Münzlishausen blocking point is considered a blocking point of national importance.
Partial lock Flueholz
- Bunker A 4065 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Österliwald A 4066 ⊙
- Infantry work / artillery observer / Bat KP Flueholz A 4068 ⊙
- Shelter at Hägelerstrasse A 4070 ⊙
- Lmg stand A 4071 ⊙
- Lmg stand Obere Ruschenbach A 4072 ⊙
- Field position east on A 4072 ⊙
- Field position west at A 4072 ⊙
- Field position without A number ⊙
- Lmg stand Obere Ruschenbach A 4073 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Im Schlipf A 4074 ⊙
- Lmg stand Unterrauschenbach A 4075 ⊙
Infantry work / artillery observer / Bat KP Flueholz A 4068
Bunker West A 4068
Bunker West A 4068
Bunker East A 4068
Partial closure Eichtal
- Pak garage Eichtal A 4060 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Eichtal A 4061 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Eichtal A 4062 ⊙
- Pak garage Eichtal A 4064 ⊙
- Observer Eichtal / Allmend A 4063 two domes ⊙
Observer Münzlishausen A 4063
Infantry bunker Eichtal A 4062
Ik / Pak garage Eichtal A 4064
GPH Baden Eichtal T 2045
Partial closure of Meierhof
- Ik garage Meierhof A 4033 ⊙
- Meierhof shelter A 4034 ⊙
- Ziegelhütte shelter A 4035 ⊙
- Observer Meierhof A 4038 two domes ⊙
- Observer redwood A 4042 three domes ⊙
- Pak garage Weiherhau A 4043 ⊙
- Weiherhau shelter A 4044 ⊙
- Shelter Kreuzlibero A 4045 ⊙
Blocking point Dättwil Neuenhof
The Zurich Mountain Infantry Regiment 37 had to block the crossings (including drivable forest paths) from the Limmat Valley to the Reuss Valley between Baden and Oberrohrdorf in the right section of the 8th Division . On the front slope south of the Limmat, bunkered armaments for machine guns and infantry cannons as well as a continuous wire barrier were built.
- Infantry bunker Spittelau Ik, Mg, Ob, 18 men, 8 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Spittelau 9 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Spittelau Dättwil: two MG, 12 men, 10 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Spittelau 11 ⊙
- Concrete shield infantry weapons Spittelau 12 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Spittelau 13 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Spittelau 14 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Spittelau 15 ⊙
- Concrete shelter Spittelau 16 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Spittelau two Mg 17 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Spittelau 18 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Stockrain Neuenhof 2 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Stockrain Neuenhof 3 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Stockrain Neuenhof 4 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Stockrain Neuenhof 5 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Stockrain Neuenhof 6 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Stockrain Neuenhof 7 ⊙
- Observer Rüsler Neuenhof ⊙
Machine gun bunker Stockrain, Neuenhof AG
Spittelau bunker for two machine guns and a crew of 12, Dättwil AG
Spittelau bunker for infantry cannon, machine gun, observer and 18-man crew
Spittelau bunker for two machine guns
literature
- Walter Lüem u. a .: The position of the Limmat in World War II , Baden-Verlag, Baden 1997, ISBN 3-85545-105-2 .
- Max Rudolf, Andreas Steigmeier : Guide to the Limmat position from the Second World War. Baden-Verlag, Baden 1998, ISBN 3-85545-114-1 .
- Stefan Michel: Bunker from the Second World War: about the rich military-historical heritage in our region . Baden New Year's Papers, Volume 92, Baden 2017.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Silvio Keller, Maurice Lovisa, Patrick Geiger: Military historical monuments in the canton of Aargau. DDPS 2006 (PDF; 7.9 MB).
- ↑ Swiss website with documentation of Swiss and German operational planning: Limmatstellung 1940 ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Jacqueline Keller: “From the history of the community in Gibstorf”. Dorf- und Vereinsblatt 3/2011 page 29 (Docplayer)
- ↑ Fortress Oberland: lock-up point Gibstorf
- ↑ Fortress Oberland: ground plan of infantry bunker Reussinsel-Süd
- ↑ Max Rudolf, Andreas Steigmeier: Guide to the Limmat position from the Second World War. Baden-Verlag, Baden 1998, ISBN 3-85545-114-1
- ↑ Oberland Fortress: Baden blocking point
- ↑ Stefan Michel: Bunker from the Second World War: about the rich military-historical heritage in our region. Baden New Year's Papers, Volume 92, Baden 2017