Iron as a coveted raw material
After the war, material from the facilities was removed and used for other purposes:
According to Alfons Fischnaller (*1928), Italian companies were looking for permission to extract and transport the iron from the covers of the trenches, which also happened. Teiser also extracted iron from the concrete. Leo Messner, plasterer (1912-1967), is said to have worked some of it in his forge. Max Schrott, Leitner (1882-1966), told his sons that older men had broken the iron from the trenches at Plattner Hölle. He had given them a Marende, so that they left the last part of the canopy, which is still preserved today. It was to serve as a tool shed for the adjacent vineyard.
Partly the rods were embedded in concrete and partly connected with an iron plate with a T-shaped slit and buried.
These iron plates were used, among other things, as hinged doors for simple ovens.
blasting
Josef Fischnaller (1929-1994) ‘Schneider-Sepp’ and Peter Fischnaller (1925-2002) ‘Torggler’, on the other hand, recounted that after the war the military had the trench covers blown up: No one should be able to hide here anymore.
The location and condition of the ceiling parts found during the excavation of the trenches at Wetterkreuzhügel in 2017 actually point to professional demolition. From the original cover of the plant at the Wetterkreuz, only a two-meter-long section has been preserved today.
Forest without trees
Johann Prader, vulgo ‘Prader Hansele’ (1911-2007) told his son Hubert that in the 1940s he could only buy a piece of forest on the hood because it was so cheap there. The reason for the low price was that there were no trees. So he bought a forest without trees. The naturally barren and dry hill had been cut down for the construction of the trenches and for the necessary clear view. Since the area was used by the Teisern as cattle pasture, this condition remained for a long time.
Open pastures alternated with light forest. Even in the 1960s cattle were kept up to the hood, which is still remembered by many Teisers today. Today, the area is populated with tall trees from the ‘Raste’/Mesner Boden.
Air-raid shelter
hideout
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