Chiusa roadblock
The Chiusa road block (it .: Forte della Chiusa ) was a fortification that was built by the Austro-Hungarian military administration between 1849 and 1851. The task was to block the Adige Valley Road in the Veronese Klause in the municipality of Dolcè . It is located at an altitude of 115 meters above sea level.
After Veneto fell to Italy after the Third Italian War of Independence in 1866 , the lock was taken over by the Italian army. Since it was important to keep this strategic position occupied, the system remained in an active status and was armed with two guns.
In 1960, the part of the barrier around the passage was demolished to enable the Brenner State Road SS 12 to be widened. Which also runs past here railway route of the Brenner railway now leads east of the separation barrier through a rock tunnel. A rest area was later built immediately south of the barrier.
The main building of the barrier was a two-story casemate , which was made in stone cut from Veronese marble . The inner walls were made of bricks. Both the road, and the running here railway line passed the locking mechanism through the same gate, while an established for central defense Poterne had to pass. Both the front gate and the one in the throat were provided with a drawbridge. The ground floor had four artillery holes, while the upper floor had eight. This arrangement was also present in the valley side. A semicircular tower at the same height was added to the casemate block on the river side. The ceiling of the structure, which did not reach up to the rock wall, but continued up to there in a lowered gun platform, is covered with a layer of earth, so it was not equipped for the installation of guns.
The water was supplied by a deep well that was connected to the Adige .
For the time being, the remains of the roadblock are left to their own devices.
Footnotes
- ↑ kuk - i.e. Austro-Hungarian only existed from 1867
literature
- Augusto Garau: Forti - Rocche e Castelli della Provincia di Verona. Provincia di Verona Turismo
- Vittorio Jacobacci: La piazzaforte di Verona sotto la dominazione austriaca 1814–1866. Cassa di Risparmio di Verona, Vicenza e Belluno 1980
- A. Sandrini & P. Brugnoli: Architettura a Verona dal periodo napoleonico all'età contemporanea. Banca popolare di Verona, Verona 1994
Coordinates: 45 ° 33 ′ 49 ″ N , 10 ° 49 ′ 33 ″ E
