Kluže

The Kluže Fortress is a fort near the town of Bovec in northwestern Slovenia.

The original fortress was built in 1472 near Bovec on the road between Cave del Predil and Carinthia. Its likely original purpose was defence of Friuli against the Turks. In the course of the 16th century Bovec came under Austrian authority as a result of the wars between Venice and the Habsburgs. However, for the time being it remained as an ecclesiastical dependence of Cividale and Aquileia. At the end of the 18th century, it was entirely under Austria's administration, and remained so until 1918.

In 1796 and 1797 fighting took place around the fort, as Napoleon's army pushed through the Koritnica gorge. Napoleon's forces took the fort in 1797 by placing artillery at a higher elevation (where Fort Hermann now stands). The fortress was then destroyed. The current fort was built upon the site by the Austrians in the late 19th century. Fort Hermann, covering the higher elevation, was built at the same time. The two are linked by a trail and a tunnel. Fort Hermann was heavily damaged and rendered unusable by Italian artillery bombardment in 1915.

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Kluže steht weltweit auf Platz 2.701 von 5.479 im Burgen-Bekanntheitsranking des Atlas und Nr. 16 der 21 in Slowenien verzeichneten. Gegründet 1472, ist es älter als 52% der datierten Objekte des Atlas — eines von 224 Atlas-Objekten, die im 15. Jahrhundert gegründet wurden. Sehen Sie im Burgen-Statistik, wie Slowenien abschneidet.

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