Tombio plant

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The Tombio plant was part of the system of Austrian fortifications on the border with Italy .

It was the northwestern barrage of the Riva fortress and was located on Monte Tombio (841 m) about one kilometer west of the hamlet of Varone. It was supposed to seal off the valleys northwest of Lake Garda and also to fight enemy artillery on Lake Ledro and in the Valle dei Concei . It was also able to artillery cover the transitions over the mountain range from the Rochetta (1521 m) via the Cima Scapia (1886 m), Corno di Pichea (2138 m) to the Dosso del Torta (2151 m). This corresponds to the entire course of the front east of the Valle dei Concei (abandoned by Austria-Hungary) .

The plant was built in concrete between 1907 and 1910 based on the model of the works at the level of the seven municipalities ( Verle and Lusern ) and was therefore no longer up to date with the latest fortress technology when the construction work was completed. The battery block and the accommodation block were not yet separated, and the distance between the armored turrets, with a distance of just twelve meters (from center to center), no longer met the latest requirements. On the back slope of the plant there was a sloping concrete surface to catch the rainwater for the cistern. In the rock caverns driven and at least one brick hut also two with also part of the complex, machine guns equipped Vorwerke , of which the one with the main station by a Poterne was connected. In support of the hamlet of Pranzo, there was still a field-like road block pushed to the northwest (today's provincial road SP 37).

The fort was armed with four 10 cm M.9 tower howitzers and four M 07/12 machine guns in the main block and eight M 07/12 machine guns each in the outworks.

The entire complex is badly damaged and overgrown. The site is privately owned.

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  1. ↑ The area of ​​the plateau of Lavarone / Folgaria was already referred to in the Austro-Hungarian military jargon as seven municipalities, which geographically was before the actual plateau of the seven municipalities.

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  • Erwin Anton Grestenberger: Imperial and Royal fortifications in Tyrol and Carinthia 1860–1918 . Verlag Österreich ua, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-8132-0747-1 .
  • 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 ).
  • Vienna War Archives

Coordinates: 45 ° 54 ′ 42 ″  N , 10 ° 49 ′ 2 ″  E