Locking point Zugerberg
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The Zugerberg locking point (Army designation no. 2410) was a border fortification of the Swiss Army . It is located at the former entrance to the Reduite on the Zugerberg in the canton of Zug . The northernmost base of the Reduit Line was built from 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 Reduit Line, 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 The 6th Division was withdrawn from the Limmat position to reinforce the left wing of the 4th Army Corps and received the order with its four detachments "Biberbrücke", "Alosen", "Zugerberg" and "Rigi" the line west of the Etzel - Schindellegi - Gotschalkenberg-Zugerberg-Rigi to hold up to Lake Lucerne and to prevent the enemy 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 Sihl on the Finstersee-Gubel-Allenhaben-Süd exit Zug line, and a detachment had to block the area between Zuger and Vierwaldstättersee with the Oberarth barrier . The order remained unchanged until the end of the reduction period.
The Zugerberg blocking point formed the section of the reduit border from Lake Zug over the Zugerberg to the Unterägeri blocking point. This should prevent an opposing push over the wooded pre-alpine Zugerberg towards Arth-Goldau . 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 civil construction companies, of which a third was in the Zugerberg area.
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 were able to request artillery fire from the mobile artillery, partly from concrete gun emplacements and from artillery works in the canton of Schwyz . Anti-aircraft batteries had to protect the barriers against air attacks. On the wooded Hünggigütsch stood two camouflaged wooden towers that carried 20 mm flab cannons at the height of the tops , the concrete bases of which are still there today.
The Reduite entrance on the Zugerberg was secured with an anti-tank obstacle in the form of a double tank ditch (Vorderer and Hinterer Geissboden) with a distance of 300 meters. For anti-tank defense , several bunkers in the barrier were equipped with a 7.5 cm field cannon model 03 on a parallel lever mount. Concrete shelters were created for the shock troops. In the 1950s, the bunkers Zugerberg 1 A 7257 in the Hintergeissboden and Zugerberg 2 A 7254 in the Vordergeissboden each received a modern anti-tank gun 50 with a caliber of 9 cm on a pivot carriage and shaped charge ammunition .
The Zugerberg Barrier was initially occupied by the 26th Infantry Regiment and finally by the Mountain Fusilier Company III / 149 and the Factory Company 48.
Locking point Zugerberg
The fortifications consist of street barricades , terrain armor obstacles (GPH) 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 beds for the reception of field guns of caliber 7.5 cm:
- Shelter Hünggigütsch 1 A 7249 ⊙
- Hünggigütsch shelter 4 A 7250 ⊙
- Hünggigütsch shelter 3 A 7251 ⊙
- Hünggigütsch shelter 2 A 7252 ⊙
- Hünggigütsch 5 shelter (first aid) A 7253 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Zugerberg 2 Nord A 7254: anti-tank guns (anti-tank guns), observer (observer) ⊙
- Infantry cannon shield (Ik shield) Vordergeissboden A 7255 ⊙
- Shelter Zugerberg 3 A 7256 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Zugerberg 1 south A 7257: Pak, Ob ⊙
Infantry cannon shield Vordergeissboden A 7255
Infantry bunker Zugerberg 2 North A 7254
Hünggigütsch shelter 4 A 7250
Infantry bunker Zugerberg 1 south A 7257
- Command post Pandur A 7258: Type KP ⊙
- Shelter Nollen 1 A 7259 ⊙
- Shelter Nollen 2 A 7260 ⊙
- Small tunnel shelter A 7261 ⊙
- Flab tower made of wood for 20 mm cannons (Hünggigütsch A) ⊙
- Flab tower made of wood for 20 mm cannons (Hünggigütsch B) ⊙
- Schaeftboden train shelter ⊙
- GPH (trench) Geissboden T 3660 ⊙
- GPH (rails) Geissboden T 3660
- Barricade Geissboden to the left of the bridge T 3660.01
- Barricade Geissboden to the right of the bridge T 3660.02
- Barricade Geissboden Bridge T 3660.03
- GPH Front Geissboden T 3661 ⊙
- Barricade front Geissboden T 3661.01
- Bubble mountain T 3662
- Barricade Zug-Schönegg Guggital T 3663
- Barricade Hünggigütsch below T 3664
- Barricade Hünggigütsch below T 3664.01
- Barricade sand sheets T3666
Tank trench front Geissboden T 3661
Flabturm Hünggigütsch at the shelter A 7250
Felsenegg rail barricade
Zugerberg tank ditch behind Geissboden T 3660
Lock point Unterägeri
West of the Lorze against the Zugerberg is the Unterägeri barrier (army designation no. 2412), the continuation of the Feuerschwand-Schurtannen barrier line. They had to prevent an opposing advance from Menzingen and Baar towards Ägerisee . The Sigristboden locking point (also Sibrischboden, army designation no. 2411) was integrated into the Unterägeri locking point in the mid-1980s.
- Infantry bunker Sigristboden 1 Ost A 7245 ⊙
- Pak-Ik-Garage Sigristboden A 7246 ⊙
- Permanent weapon position Infantry Ik-Schild A 7247 ⊙
- Infantry bunker Sigristboden 2 West A 7248 ⊙
Infantry bunker Sigristboden 1 East A7245
Infantry cannon garage Sigristboden A 7246
Infantry cannon shield Sigristboden A 7247
Infantry bunker Sigristboden West 2 A 7248
- Explosive object Hauptstrasse Unterägeri-Neuägeri M 2652
- Barricade Waldheim Strasse T 3656
- Barricade inside spinning mill T 3657
- GPH Büttenloch T 3658 ⊙
- Barricade Büttenloch Strasse T 3658.01
- Barricade Büttenloch Bridge T 3658.02
- GPH Sigristboden T 3659 ⊙ ⊙
- Barricade to the left of the bridge T 3659.01
- Barricade to the right of the bridge T 3659.02
- Barricade Lorzentobel Bridge T 3702
- Barricade Tobelweg T 3703
- All winds barricade T 3705
- Barricade Allen winds T 3706
Tank wall Sigristboden West T 3659
Tank wall Sigristboden West T 3659
Tank wall Sigristboden Nordost T 3665
Concrete parapet at A 7247
Partial closure of Hinterwald-Windegg
The Hinterwald-Windegg barrier was occupied by the Fusilier Battalion 106 and was supposed to stop infantry advancing through the Lorzetal or from the Menzingen plateau towards Ägerisee and Zugerberg.
- Teufländibach shelter A 7236 ⊙
- Hinterwald infantry bunker 1 A 7237 ⊙
- Hinterwald infantry bunker 2 A 7238 ⊙
- Hinterwald infantry bunker 3 A 7239 ⊙
- Command post Philippsburg A 7240: crew room ⊙
- Infantry bunker Philippsburg A 7240: Mg stand ⊙
- Infantry bunker Windegg A 7241: Opposite bunker to Philippsburg A 7240 ⊙
- GPH outer spinning mill T 3654 ⊙
- Barricade outer spinning mill T 3654.01
- Barricade Teufländibach T 3655
Command post KP Philippsburg A 7240
Philippsburg infantry bunker MG stand A 7240
Infantry bunker Windegg A 7241
Artillery position Bucklen
The former artillery position of the field artillery department 16 is at Bucklen ( field names ) in the lower Hürital in the municipality of Unterägeri. It comprises four open concrete positions for 7.5 cm field cannons 03/22 as well as two shelters:
- Artillery position Bucklen West A 7262 ⊙
- Small shelter Bucklen A 7263 ⊙
- Artillery position Bucklen Ost A 7264 ⊙
- Artillery position Illenberg West A 7265 ⊙
- Small shelter Illenberg A 7266 ⊙
- Artillery position Illenberg Ost A 7267 ⊙
Artillery position Schüsselbach
The former artillery position of the field artillery department 16 is at Im Fang (field name) near the Schüsselbach in the middle Hürital in the municipality of Unterägeri. It comprises two open and two covered concrete positions for 7.5 cm field cannons 03/22 as well as a shelter:
- Artillery position Schüsselbach 1 Im Fang Ost A 7268 ⊙
- Artillery position Schüsselbach 2 Im Fang West A 7269 ⊙
- Small shelter Schüsselbach Im Fang A 7270 ⊙
- Artillery position Schüsselbach 3 Ost A 7271 covered ⊙
- Artillery position Schüsselbach 2 West A 7272 covered ⊙
Artillery command post "Pandur" A 7258
Artillery position Bucklen
Small shelter Schüsselbach Im Fang A 7270
Barrack Hürital West
Artillery position in Warth-Morgarten
The covered artillery positions of the heavy howitzer battery 178 are located near Schornen, Warth in the village of Morgarten (municipality of Oberägeri ). They were armed with 15 cm field howitzers 16:
- Artillery position Wart-Morgarten 1 A 7373 ⊙
- Artillery position Wart-Morgarten 2 A 7374 ⊙
- Artillery position Wart-Morgarten 3 A 7375 ⊙
- Artillery position Wart-Morgarten 4 A 7376 ⊙
Artillery position Wart-Morgarten 1 A 7373
Artillery position Wart-Morgarten 2 A 7374
Artillery position Wart-Morgarten 3 A 7375
Artillery position Wart-Morgarten 3 A 7375
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
Web links
- Website - with all the necessary information about visits to the forts 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 armory of Neuheim / Z
- Little porcupine: Unterägeri lock, Philippsburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zugerberg locking point . In: 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. Pp. 32-33
- ^ 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
- ^ Military-historical foundation of the canton of Zug: Interactive fortress map
- ↑ Oberland Fortress: Zugerberg Lock Point 2410
- ↑ Oberland Fortress: Blocking point Unterägeri 2411
- ↑ Oberland: Bucklen artillery position
- ^ Oberland Fortress: Artillery position Schüsselbach
- ^ Fortress Oberland: Artillery position Wart SZ
Coordinates: 47 ° 6 ′ 26.3 " N , 8 ° 34 ′ 52" E ; CH1903: six hundred and eighty-six thousand seven hundred and seventeen / 217997