Ha i raggiunto la Cima Cad\u00ec, collocata sulla dorsale che divide la Valle del Serodine dalla Valle dell’Albiolo. Durante la Prima Guerra Mondiale questa posizione assunse notevole importanza perch\u00e9 fronteggiava le linee Monticelli e del Monte Tonale Orientale; ancora oggi lo testimoniano le numerose opere militari disseminate sulla vetta e sui costoni laterali. Gli avvenimenti bellici di maggior rilevanza in questa zona sono quelli avvenuti nell\u2019estate del 1918. Il 13 giugno di quell\u2019ultimo anno di guerra gli austriaci sferrarono infatti sulla Sella del Tonale una grande offensiva che nelle loro intenzioni doveva portarli direttamente nella Pianura Padana. Tale importante azione, denominata \u201cLawine Expedition\u201d (Spedizione Valanga), interess\u00f2 direttamente le prime linee italiane di Cima Cad\u00ec e del Serodine.
\nSottoposti al violento tiro delle artiglierie austriache, i reparti italiani riuscirono tuttavia a contenere l\u2019offensiva. I soldati imperiali erano notevolmente provati da 4 anni di guerra, e ancor pi\u00f9 drammatiche erano le condizioni di privazione della popolazione civile.
\nLa successiva azione italiana del 13 agosto 1918 insanguin\u00f2 ancora il territorio circostante la Cima Cad\u00ec.
\nLa cresta, che collega questa posizione con il Monte Tonale Occidentale, era interamente percorsa da un lungo sentiero di arroccamento che dava accesso a varie grotte ricovero e a postazioni d\u2019artiglieria.
\nUna bellissima caverna, collocata a 2501 metri di quota sul versante orientale della Cima Cad\u00ec, ospitava un vecchio cannone da 87B che puntava in direzione delle posizioni austriache dei Monticelli e della Conca Presena.
\nPantaleo Casazza, un mezzadro di 37 anni originario della provincia di Cuneo che fu inviato su queste montagne e destinato principalmente a lavori di fatica, cos\u00ec scriveva alla moglie con un italiano alquanto stentato nel dicembre del 1916:
\n\u201cCaramia Rosina oggi stesso mi tocca predere il lavoro e sitrata tutto per laneve, sitrataportar legna viveri munizioni dalla matina alla sera su da questi monti e tutto per neve e per tormenta e per chi non conosce i monti e innutile parlarci e cosi si trova la milizia territoriale non alpericolo del nemico ma molto delle Valanche perch\u00e9 si tratta ditener sempre sgobro il passaggio su da queste rocce a circa 3000 metri\u201d.
\nNella primavera del 1917 Casazza ottenne una sospirata licenza, ma dovette presto far rientro alla sua compagnia. Scrivendo nuovamente alla moglie, le manifest\u00f2 tutta la sua afflizione per le condizioni ambientali estreme nelle quali si trovava:
\n\u201cAmata mia Rosa non poi in maginarti la fetto che mi afatto apena giunto qui. In questa neve con unfreddo in calcolabile rasomilia che linverno sia in cominciato apena a desso mi fa unpo dafetto perche opassato un mese in quel paradiso e poi aver daritornare in questo in ferno\u201d.<\/p>\n","modified":"2021-07-06T09:01:39","color":"","icon":"","noDetails":false,"noInteraction":false,"zindex":"","imageGallery":[{"src":"https:\/\/stelvio.wp.webmapp.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PNS0905_2-1024x576.jpg","id":2475,"caption":""},{"src":"https:\/\/stelvio.wp.webmapp.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PNS0905_3-576x1024.jpg","id":2478,"caption":""}],"image":"https:\/\/stelvio.wp.webmapp.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PNS0905-1024x576.jpg","audio":"https:\/\/stelvio.wp.webmapp.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PNS_IT09_0905.mp3","taxonomy":{"webmapp_category":[11]},"accessibility":{"mobility":{"check":false,"description":"","level":"accessible_independently"},"hearing":{"check":false,"description":"","level":"accessible_independently"},"vision":{"check":false,"description":"","level":"accessible_independently"},"cognitive":{"check":false,"description":"","level":"accessible_independently"},"food":{"check":false,"description":""}},"reachability":{"by_bike":{"check":false,"description":""},"on_foot":{"check":false,"description":""},"by_car":{"check":false,"description":""},"by_public_transportation":{"check":false,"description":""}},"locale":"it","source":"https:\/\/stelvio.wp.webmapp.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poi\/2654","wp_edit":"http:\/\/stelvio.wp.webmapp.it\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=2654&action=edit","translations":{"en":{"id":3348,"name":"PNS0905 Cima Cad\u00ec","web":"https:\/\/stelvio.wp.webmapp.it\/\/pns0905-cima-cadi\/?lang=en","source":"https:\/\/stelvio.wp.webmapp.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poi\/3348","description":"
You are now at Cima Cad\u00ec, on the ridge which separates the Serodine and Albiolo valleys. During World War One this position was of considerable importance because it faced the Monticelli and Mount Tonale Orientale lines, as is still today testified to by the large numbers of fortifications along the peak and its lateral ridges. The most important war time events in this area were those which took place in the summer of 1918. On 13 June that year the Austrians attacked the Tonale col in a large scale offensive which was designed to take them directly onto the Po plains. It was called the Lawine Expedition (Operation Avalanche) and saw fighting on the front Cima Cad\u00ec and Serodine lines.
\nSubjected to fierce Austrian artillery fire the Italian divisions managed to contain the offensive all the same. The Empire’s soldiers had been considerably worn down by four years of war and the shortages suffered by the civilian population was even more dramatic.
\nThe subsequent Italian action of 13 August 1918 shed blood in the Cima Cad\u00ec area once again.
\nThe ridge which linked this position with Mount Tonale Occidentale was entirely traversed by a long fortified footpath which gave access to a range of cave shelters and artillery emplacements.
\nA wonderful cavern at 2501 metres on the east side of Cima Cad\u00ec hosted an old 87C field gun directed at the Austrian Monticelli and Presena basin positions.
\nPantaleo Casazza, a 37 year old sharecropper from Cuneo province, was sent to this area and mainly tasked with heavy manual work. This is what he wrote to his wife in faltering Italian, in December 1916:
\n\u2018Dear Rosina, just today I had to set to work and everything was covered by snow. I had to take timber, food and ammunition from morning to night up these mountains and with snow all around and bad weather. People who don\u2019t know the mountains can\u2019t understand and so the territorial militia is not in danger from the enemy but from avalanches because it is a matter of keeping access to these rocks at around 3000 metres open at all times.\u2019
\nIn spring 1917 Casazza obtained much hoped for home leave but he soon had to return to his company. Writing to his wife once again he showed all his suffering for the extreme environment he was obliged to stay in.
\n\u2018My dear Rosa, you can\u2019t imagine how terrible I felt as soon as I got here. In this snow, in this impossible cold, where it feels like the winter has just started now, I\u2019m suffering because after spending a month in that paradise and now having to go back to this hell.\u2019<\/p>\n","audio":"https:\/\/a.webmapp.it\/stelvio.wp.webmapp.it\/media\/audios\/2654_en.mp3"},"de":{"id":2835,"name":"PNS0905 Cima Cad\u00ec","web":"https:\/\/stelvio.wp.webmapp.it\/\/pns0905-cima-cadi\/?lang=de","source":"https:\/\/stelvio.wp.webmapp.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poi\/2835","description":"
Sie haben die Cad\u00ec-Spitze erreicht, die auf dem Bergr\u00fccken liegt, der das Serodine-Tal vom Albiolo-Tal trennt. W\u00e4hrend des Ersten Weltkriegs war die Spitze sehr wichtig, da sie den Linien der Monticelli und des \u00f6stlichen Berges Tonale gegen\u00fcberstand; davon zeugen noch heute die zahlreichen milit\u00e4rischen Anlagen, die auf dem Gipfel und auf den Seitengraten verstreut sind. Die wichtigsten Kriegsereignisse hier fanden im Sommer 1918 statt. Am 13. Juni des letzten Kriegsjahres starteten die \u00d6sterreicher eine gro\u00dfe Offensive am Tonale-Sattel, die sie nach ihren Absichten direkt in die Po-Ebene f\u00fchren sollte. Diese wichtige Milit\u00e4rhandlung, die \u201eLawinen-Expedition\u201c genannt wurde, betraf direkt die italienischen Frontlinien auf der Cad\u00ec-Spitze und am Serodine.
\nUnter dem heftigen Beschuss der \u00f6sterreichischen Artillerie gelang es den Italienern, die Offensive einzud\u00e4mmen. Die Kaiserlich-k\u00f6nigliche Armee war durch 4 Jahren Krieg ersch\u00f6pft, noch dramatischer erging es der Zivilbev\u00f6lkerung.
\nBei der darauffolgenden italienischen Offensive am 13. August 1918 wurde es auf der Cad\u00ec-Spitze wieder hart gek\u00e4mpft.
\nDer Bergr\u00fccken, der die Spitze mit dem westlichen Berg Tonale verbindet, wurde von einem Verbindungsweg durchlaufen, der Zugang zu verschiedenen Unterstandsh\u00f6hlen und Artilleriestellungen bot.
\nEine wundersch\u00f6ne H\u00f6hle, die sich in 2501 Meter H\u00f6he auf der Ostseite der Cad\u00ec-Spitze befindet, beherbergte eine alte 87B-Kanone, die in Richtung der \u00f6sterreichischen Stellungen auf den Monticelli und in der Senke von Presena zeigte.
\nPantaleo Casazza, ein 37-j\u00e4hriger P\u00e4chter aus der Provinz Cuneo, der in diese Berge abkommandiert wurde, um hier haupts\u00e4chlich als Arbeiter Dienst zu nehmen, schrieb im Dezember 1916 in einem eher unbeholfenen Italienisch an seine Frau:
\n\u201eMeine liebe Rosina, wegen des Schnees war heute so viel Arbeit, dass ich den ganzen Tag Holz, Lebensmittel und Munitionen \u00fcber diese Berge hinauf und herunter schleppen musste, und sogar bei Schnee und Sturm. Wer die Berge nicht kennt, kann nicht verstehen. Und so geht es der Territorialmiliz, die eher die Lawinen als den Feind zu f\u00fcrchten hat. Auf diesen Felsen in 3000 Meter H\u00f6he m\u00fcssen wir Tag und Nacht arbeiten, damit der Weg schneefrei bleibt\u201c.
\nIm Fr\u00fchling 1917 durfte Casazza endlich nach Hause, aber er musste bald wieder zu seiner Kompanie kehren. In einem weiteren Brief an seine Frau schrieb er seine ganze Verzweiflung \u00fcber die extremen Umweltbedingungen im Gebirge nieder:
\n“Meine liebe Rosa, du kannst dir gar nicht vorstellen, welche Schwierigkeiten ich hatte, hierher zu kommen. Es liegt so viel Schnee und es ist so kalt, als h\u00e4tte der Winter erst begonnen. Der Monat bei dir f\u00fchlte sich an wie im Paradies, und ich war so betr\u00fcbt, in diese H\u00f6lle zur\u00fcck zu m\u00fcssen\u201c.<\/p>\n","audio":"https:\/\/a.webmapp.it\/stelvio.wp.webmapp.it\/media\/audios\/2654_de.mp3"}},"web":"https:\/\/stelvio.wp.webmapp.it\/poi\/pns0905-cima-cadi\/","addr:street":"","addr:housenumber":"","addr:postcode":"","addr:city":"","contact:phone":"","contact:email":"","opening_hours":"","capacity":"","ele":2606},"geometry":{"type":"Point","coordinates":[10.570523,46.276073]}}