Lock point Wägital
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The lock point Wägital (Army designation No. 2414) was a defensive position of the Swiss Army . It is located at the former entrance to the Reduite in Wägital in the canton of Schwyz . The Reduit Line was built from 1941, belonged to the operations area of the 7th Division and from 1947 to the Reduit Brigade 24 .
history
The 600 or so combat structures that were built in the canton of Schwyz from 1939 to 1945 were integrated into barriers and bases and equipped with different types of weapons depending on the order. The 6th and 7th divisions planned different types of bunkers with the same function, which were mostly built by local builders.
As part of the Réduit national, these systems were intended to prevent the 6th and 7th divisions from being pushed through the pre-Alpine part of the canton of Schwyz into the Schwyz basin and from there on towards the Gotthard .
In January 1941 the 7th Division of the 4th Army Corps received the following order: Block the access to the Wägital and cover the upper Sihl valley and the Einsiedeln area with a heavyweight at the Etzel base. Lock line on the Linth Canal and security on the upper Lake Zurich. The existing bases are to be used. Further bases are to be set up as support for the mobile defense at the heights between the upper Lake Zurich and the upper Sihl Valley.
The "Kampfgruppe Pfiffegg" had to block access to the Wägital at the confluence of the Trepsenbach in the Wägitaler Aa with a fusilier company, a Mitrailleurzug and two infantry cannons and to prevent an enemy push into the Sihlsee area between Pfiffegg and Stoffel. The Wägital barrier formed the section of the Reduit border between the Etzel barrier , the Oberegg combat group and the Linth battalion with the Reichenburg-Mösli barrier (no. 2425).
The fortifications consist of street barricades , anti-tank obstacles in the form of tank ditches and tank walls, anti-tank bunkers, machine gun bunkers, shelters, artillery command post caverns, artillery bunkers and permanent artillery gun beds. They continued to operate in the post-war years and were equipped with newer types of weapons.
Lock point Wägital
The closure point Grütt-Vorderthal / Sonne-Wägital (No. 2414/2415) in the Wägital had to prevent a transition over the Sattelegg to the Sihlsee and into the Schwyz area. In addition to three bunkers, numerous street barricades and two artillery positions had been created.
- Infantry bunker Grütt-Strasse A 6965: 2 machine guns (Mg), 2 light machine guns (Lmg), 2 observers (obs) ⊙
- Infantry block Grütt-Gross (including shelter) A 6966: Panzerabwehrkanone (Pak) 2 Mg, Lmg, 3 Obs ⊙
- Infantry bunker Grütt-Chalet A 6967: Mg, Lmg, Ob ⊙
Infantry bunker Grütt-Strasse A 6965
Infantry plant Grütt-Gross A 6966
Infantry bunker Grütt-Chalet A 6967
Bunkered observation post for water alarm dam wall
- Barricade Mühle-Siebnen T 3539 ⊙
- Barricade Rempen-Vorderthal T 3540 ⊙
- Barricade Hackenruten-Vorderthal T 3541 ⊙
- Barricade Grütt Vorderthal Strasse T 3542 ⊙
- Barricade Schrah-Innerthal T 3543 ⊙
- Barricade Dam South T 3544 ⊙
- Explosive object street Innerthal-Siebnen M 2883 ⊙
former barricade Rempenbrücke
former barricades on both sides of the Wägitalersee dam
Artillery position Bannwald
The artillery positions were armed with 10.5 cm howitzers.
- Artillery position Bannwald 1 A 6960 ⊙
- Artillery position Bannwald 2 A 6961 ⊙
- Artillery position Bannwald 3 A 6962 ⊙
- Artillery position Bannwald 4 (dismantled) A 6963 ⊙
Artillery position Bannwald 1 A 6960
Artillery position Bannwald 2 A 6961
Artillery position Bannwald 2 A 6961
Artillery position Bannwald 3 A 6962
Artillery position Kirchplatte
- Kirchplatte artillery position: A 6970 ammunition cavern ⊙
- Artillery position Kirchplatte A 6971 ⊙
- Artillery position Kirchplatte A 6972 ⊙
- Artillery position Kirchplatte A 6973 ⊙
- Artillery position Kirchplatte A 6974 ⊙
Artillery position Kirchplatte A 6971
Artillery position Kirchplatte A 6972
Artillery position Kirchplatte A 6973
Artillery position Kirchplatte A 6974
See also
literature
- Valentin Kessler: The fortifications in the canton of Schwyz . Reprint from the communications of the Historical Association of the Canton of Schwyz, Issue 95, 2003.
- Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport (Ed.): Military monuments in the cantons of Uri, Schwyz and Zug. Inventory of the combat and command structures. [1]
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fortress Oberland: Sperrstelle Wägital SZ ( Memento from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ bunker friends: Equipment Sun
- ↑ bunker friends: Equipment Vorderthal
Coordinates: 47 ° 8 '3.8 " N , 8 ° 53' 6.7" E ; CH1903: 709,738 / 221390