in Innsbruck On 19 June 1703, Bavarian troops besieged
Kufstein. Fires broke out on the outskirts of the town, which engulfed the town itself, destroyed it and reached the
powder store of the supposedly impregnable
fortress. The enormous supplies of gunpowder exploded and Kufstein surrendered on 20 June. That same day, the Tyrolese surrendered in
Wörgl; two days later
Rattenberg was captured and
Innsbruck was cleared on 25 June without a fight. But the Bavarians then suffered reverses at the hands of the Tyrolese on 1 July at the
Pontlatzer Bridge in the upper
Inn Valley, at the
Brenner Pass and near Innsbruck. On 26 July,
Saint Anne's Day, Tyrol was freed again and Maximilian Emanuel retreated to Bavaria via
Seefeld in Tirol. In 2011, during construction work in
Pfons in the
Wipptal valley, graves were uncovered, which were presumably those of Bavarian soldiers, who were not buried in the cemetery, but in threes near the river bank. The theory rests on clues that were mentioned in the local chronicle of
Matrei am Brenner. == Tradition ==