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The term Verhau (also known as Verhack ) is used to describe an obstacle consisting of mostly bulky parts. It is usually used for defense purposes.

nature

Big mess out of trees
Wire entanglement and trench, 1940

Defensive hedges (so-called bridges ) were created in ancient times to protect places of refuge for the rural population living in unpaved individual farmsteads, hamlets and villages. For this purpose, forest edges were planted with thorn bushes, the branches of which were regularly bent inward and trimmed (“beaten”, “chopped”). The forests behind it became inaccessible to mounted troops and even to foot soldiers if they did not find the secret entrances.

The actual entanglement, however, is only temporary. Mostly it is cut up (" beaten up ") trees, bushes, thorn bushes, hedges ( Hag ) and woodwork, more recently also reinforced with barbed wire ( wire entanglement , also barbed wire entanglement ), which are created in the run-up to fortifications and entrenchments as the first obstacle to attack during hostile clashes become. For this purpose, barriers were created in the main and fore trenches, along the foot of the so-called Contrescarpe (this is what the outer trench slope is called in fortifications) or to block ravines , forest and village entrances. The wider the barrier, the more effective the obstacle it was. In order to make it more difficult to clear out entrances, the trunks were fastened with stakes that were driven in front of and between the branches.

In the field of forestry , a tangled tree is also used as a wind throw .

species

  • The tree entanglement consists of cut trees, the tops of which are thrown crosswise over one another in the direction of the attacker.
  • A shrub fence consists of scruffy, if possible thorny branches.

See also

literature

  • Michael Schoene, Military Manual , p. 206

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.dwds.de/?kompakt=1&sh=1&qu=Verhau
  2. ↑ You have to imagine the 'impenetrable' rose hedge in the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty as such a mess.
  3. ^ Christian Aschoff: retro-bib - page from Meyers Konversationslexikon: Verhau - Limitation .
  4. ^ Editors waldwissen.net - FVA: Working methods in storm wood .