Tailer's Family - journeying!
Project: Austria - Salzburg
Hohensalzburg Castle.
The Firing Gallery. evolved in 1498 was built at the same time the "Hohen Stock" was furnished as a royal palace. It was intended to provide reinforcement of the old encircling wall directly adjoining the mountain precipices. The cannons in the embrasure recesses date back to the Thirty Years' War. Built with a 20cm calibre, they were classified as heavy artillery, covering a range of some 2.5km and were used for firing "bombs" - hollow metal shot filled with gunpowder. The fuse (hemp cord soaked in acetate of lead, which retained its red-hot glow no matter how strong the wind blew) caught fire immediately on discharge and caused the charge to explode on impact. Later armourers filled these bombs with fragments of lead to produce a leaden "squirt", the dreaded "case shots". whose supercharge inflicted ghastly injuries on the enemy over a wide area. Cannons of this calibre were ideal for use as fortress artillery in the bombardment of military camps and advancing armed units.
Project: Austria - Salzburg
Hohensalzburg Castle.
The Firing Gallery. evolved in 1498 was built at the same time the "Hohen Stock" was furnished as a royal palace. It was intended to provide reinforcement of the old encircling wall directly adjoining the mountain precipices. The cannons in the embrasure recesses date back to the Thirty Years' War. Built with a 20cm calibre, they were classified as heavy artillery, covering a range of some 2.5km and were used for firing "bombs" - hollow metal shot filled with gunpowder. The fuse (hemp cord soaked in acetate of lead, which retained its red-hot glow no matter how strong the wind blew) caught fire immediately on discharge and caused the charge to explode on impact. Later armourers filled these bombs with fragments of lead to produce a leaden "squirt", the dreaded "case shots". whose supercharge inflicted ghastly injuries on the enemy over a wide area. Cannons of this calibre were ideal for use as fortress artillery in the bombardment of military camps and advancing armed units.