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Artillery and accessories

The artillery collection has 704 exhibits: wall guns, mortars, cannons, falconets as well as various accessories:bullets, calliper gauges, calliper compasses, loading shovels, loading sticks, casing cleaners and casing scrapers.

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In addition to the two falconets that date from around the year 1500, the armoury also houses three cannons from the 17th and 18th centuries. Amongst some of the oldest exhibits is a forged barrel made in Sebald Pögl’s workshop in Styria as well as three volley guns from the final years of the 15th century.

Mortar

Mortars served as heavy siege weapons, from which cast balls or stone balls were thrown against the town walls or fortifications.

Signal mortars

Signal mortars were used as way of warning people about the prospect of enemy invasion.

Double-barrelled volley gun

Amongst the oldest weapons in the armoury are three double-barrelled volley guns dating from the end of the 15th century.

Matchlock muzzle-loading wall gun

Wall guns are muzzleloaders that can be loaded from the front with bullets or gunpowder. They are unusually long, large-calibre weapons. 

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