Demolition in Croisic
Sad news from the demolition front again. A very rare L 406 on the Croisic peninsula will be demolished or at least altered. In 2010 new houses already closed in but now the bunker has to disappear (completely or under a new house). The faith of the Vf bunkers around this one is unknown. A […]
In: Demolition/Disappearing, France, News · Tagged with: "L 406", atlantikwall, atlantique, blockhaus, bretagne, bunker, croisic, demolition, luftwaffe, mur, sloop
Allen Gewalten zum Trotz sich erhalten
Two years ago I’ve posted about the Fl 250 anti-aircraft headquarters in Saint-Marc near Saint-Nazaire. Back then more than 400 letters from all over Europe ended up at the office of the Service Territorial d’Architecture et du Patrimoine. However, there was no reaction to any of these letters, although they were surprised by the big […]
In: Demolition/Disappearing, France, News · Tagged with: atlantique, blockhaus, bunker, demolition, fl 250, Flak, kriegsmarine, loire, marineflak, mur, patrimoine, saint-marc, saint-nazaire, sauvegarde
L 410 around the Füherhauptquartier Wolfsschlucht 2
The Füherhauptquartier Wolfsschlucht 2 is known for its enormous variety of bunker designs. There are local designs for machine gun turrets and plates and one can discover Luftwaffe Regelbauten never built anywhere else. A not so rare Luftwaffe design is the L 410, a command bunker for small Flak batteries. However near Margival this type […]
In: Articles, Bunkersite update · Tagged with: blockhaus, bunker, command, Flak, führerbunker, innenbereich, l 410, laffaux, leichte, luftwaffe, margival, neuville-sur-margival, regelbau, vauxaillon, zug
It has begun.. Stp Pommern will be demolished
Today I got the unfortunate news that demolishing works have started on the bunkers of the beautiful and famous Stützpunkt 120 “Pommern” on the beach south of Wissant. 2,5 years ago the local government decided to demolish the bunkers. Now, all the bunkers on the beach including the iconic Regelbau 600 with stairs, 630 in […]
In: Demolition/Disappearing, France · Tagged with: baye, blockhaus, demolition, pas-de-calais, pommern, wissant
German bunkers in Romania
On the coast of Constanza in Romania near the old casino some MG bunkers were built during the war. One of them is a Tobruk bunker, covered with a hood and attached to an underground tunnel system. More on bunkers in Romania. See http://aedificium.rockhall.ro/
In: Eastern Europe, News · Tagged with: "World war two", army, blockhaus, bunker, german, pillbox, roemenië, romania, tirpitz, tobruk
Remains of M19 mortar found on Guernsey
Seen on Axis History. Festung Guernsey has completed another very successful dig at Stp. Langenberg. This time we were at the Type 633 M19 bunker to see what was buried in the extensively damaged turret room. Once all of the backfill and blown up concrete had been removed we were pleasantly surprised with large parts […]
In: Channel Islands, News · Tagged with: 633, atlantikwall, blockhaus, bunker, channel islands, guernsey, langenberg, m19, maschinengranatwerfer, mortar, perelle, remains
Alarming messages from Denmark
Ok, the story appeared on an engineers website but still it’s an alarming message. Without mentioning any historical value of the bunkers, Poul Erik Faurholm of CMP Demolition A/S makes a cold calculation on how the bunkers could be demolished. The only question is: “Who’s going to pay for this all”. I hope Danish government officials have […]
In: Demolition/Disappearing, Denmark, News · Tagged with: atlantikwall, blockhaus, bunkers, demolition, denmark, economy, heritage, history, monumenten, monuments, value
Bunker near Arcachon unearthed
Two years ago we mentioned the renovation of an anti-tank bunker in the south west of France. In May of 2012 the plans were finally put into action. The bunker’s armoured plate was behind bricks but still there including the protecting lifting plate in front. The ball mount for the 4.7cm Festungspak 36 (t) is […]
In: France, News · Tagged with: 506b, ar 234, arcachon, atlantikwall, blockhaus, gramasa, gujan-mestras, les landes, pays basque, regelbau, type, westwall
Bunker for sale in Audresselles
In Audresselles, on the sea wall, a 612 casemate is for sale. Attached is a house. http://www.immobilier-lariviere.com/456352/56862465/detail,sento.htm?lang=fr
In: France, News · Tagged with: ambleteuse, atlantikwall, blockhaus, bunker, koop, sale, vendre
Bunkersite.com update: new house style
We’ve been working on our new house style for quite a while. It’s a painstaking job but we’re getting there. What has been updated in the past months? In the Altantikwall part all of Norway, Belgium, Channel Islands and France are now converted. The same goes for Other Locations except for Poland. With the conversion […]
In: Bunkersite update · Tagged with: atlantikwall, blockhaus, bunker, bunkersite, casemate, two, update, war, westwall, world