Intermediate plant Mero

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Intermediate plant Mero

The intermediate plant Mero (it. Merlo ) is located 1838 meters above the Tonale pass road on the northern slope of the Val di Sole in the province of Trento .

The Mero plant secured the uncovered area of ​​the Strino plant two kilometers below in the Tonale barrier , which was in the artillery fire area of the Presanella plant , but required cover against infantry attacks from the Tonale pass due to various blind spots .

Mero was built in 1905 and modernized from 1910 to 1912. According to the task at hand, the armament consisted of only eight machine guns, originally of the M 93 type, which were later replaced by the 07/12 type machine guns . The work was only shell-proof, i. That is, it could only have withstood field cannons up to 15 cm caliber for a certain time, but not fire from howitzers or mortars of the same caliber.

After 1920 the Italian army had the facility blown up.

literature

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

Coordinates: 46 ° 16 ′ 32 ″  N , 10 ° 37 ′ 35 ″  E