Plätzwiese plant

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Plätzwiese plant
Plätzwiese plant, full side view (summer 2018)

The so-called barrage Plätzwiese (in the Austro-Hungarian military administration on the border with Italy with two exceptions instead of “fort” the designation “lock” or “work” was used) is located at 2040  m altitude on the high plateau Plätzwiese near the Dürrensteinhütte . It lies exactly on the border of the South Tyrolean communities Toblach and Braies . Task of the work was with the work Landro securing the Höhlensteintals / Stollatals and thus access to the Pustertal , especially as the village and the boiler of Cortina d'Ampezzo had been abandoned in May 1915 by the Austrians and initially only the Montepiano the Breakthrough prevented. It belonged to the system of Austrian fortifications on the border with Italy .

Plätzwiese, ruins of the outer fort on the Strudelkopfsattel northeast of the barrage

Built in 1889/94, it was already out of date when the First World War broke out and still served its purpose. Only superficially informed about the true state of the Austrian fortifications was the Italian high command not able to assess the situation properly and took the old walls (and not only this) from the Valle Delle Campe with grenades heavy artillery. Since the guns had already been dismantled and placed in field positions, the result was only extremely mediocre - two 30.5 cm shells that had been pierced right from the start made the plant incapable of fighting, but this was not noticed on the Italian side.

When the war broke out, the factory was armed with two 15 cm anti-tank mortars and eleven machine guns. For mobile defense there were two 9 cm field cannons outside the actual plant . The crew consisted of a department of the San Candido No. III rifle regiment and parts of the fortress artillery battalion No. 1 (Vienna).

In the Italian period, some renovations and additions were made by private hands, which have significantly changed the original condition.

Today the Dürrensteinhütte's emergency power generator is located in the factory. The listed building was structurally secured in 2011 and 2012.

literature

  • Erwin Anton Grestenberger: Imperial and Royal fortifications in Tyrol and Carinthia 1860–1918. Verlag Österreich ua, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-8132-0747-1 .
  • Rolf Hentzschel: Austrian mountain fortresses in the First World War. The Folgeria and Lavarone plateaus. Athesia, Bozen 1999, ISBN 88-8266-019-2 , ( Athesia workshop. Non-fiction book ).
  • Wilhelm Nussstein: Dolomites. Austrian fortresses in Northern Italy. From the seven municipalities to the Flitscher Klause. Mittler, Hamburg et al. 1997, ISBN 3-8132-0496-0 , ( military history travel guide ).
  • CH Baer: The struggles for Tyrol and Carinthia - eleventh volume. Hoffmann publishing house, Stuttgart 1917

Web links

Commons : Werk Plätzwiese  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
  • Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
  • Austrian Society for Fortress Research: Plätzwiese plant

Coordinates: 46 ° 38 ′ 30.1 ″  N , 12 ° 11 ′ 43 ″  E