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Festung Nauders

Austria · 19th century

Founded
1834
Style
Neoclassicism
Heritage status
Listed objects in Austria
Location
Nauders
Coordinates
46.9133°, 10.4929°
Links
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Festung Nauders in Austria
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Description

The Straßensperre Nauders, also called Sperre Hochfinstermünz, is a fortification two and a half kilometres north-west of the village of Nauders at the Finstermünz Pass in North Tyrol. The complex was erected in the period from 1834 to 1840 on the site of an old defensive wall and was the oldest manned fortification on the Austrian side in the course of the First World War.

The Festung Nauders lies in a gorge on the outer radius of a double bend and is therefore considered practically unassailable. It is the only old Austrian fortification of the southern chain of barrier forts that is still on Austrian soil. The work was not involved in any fighting and is therefore very well preserved. Today the museum “Festung Nauders” is housed in the fortification; the narrow point of the road passing by is called the Finstermünz Pass.

Machine-translated from “Straßensperre Nauders” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Festung Nauders ranks #5,840 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #153 of the 316 mapped in Austria. Founded 1834, it is older than 10% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 782 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,174 times in the last 60 days, more than 60% of the atlas. 7 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Innsbruck, 79 km away. See how Austria compares in the castle statistics.

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