amiral bunker of pignerolle near angers france

[rice241]

hello, I live in angers in france,and I'm looking for informations and pictures from castle of pignerolle,base of fdu west of Amiral Donitz and the description of the 11 bunkers around the castle, and particularely the Amiral bunker,thanks a lot for answering me.

[rice241]

I used to collect informations on this sites:

[/url]http://centroeu.com/uboote/fotos.html
[/url]http://www.uboatwar.net/angers.htm#Map

but i need more informations.thanks

[rice241]

picture from http://www.uboatwar.net

[S_haule]

Dear Ris,

I think that A. Chazette published an article about Pignerolle in a former issue of 39/45 magasine.

Regards,

S. Haule

[rice241]

merci S_haule je regarde

[jbb20p7]

Hello Ris ,

In a Memorial Album About Kriegsmarine from Heimdal Editions , they talk about Pignerolles

I think Alain Chazette could help you
Call it

Bye
Jibi

[rice241]

thanks jbb20p7

[dirk Peeters]

here some new info for pignerolles

as we can see many barracks where bult here (B is Barack) some of them wher wooden construction

(photo private archive not my own)
some where of bricks or concrete
Here one when they are destroying it

[dirk Peeters]

the last picture i think was a double floor bunker and it could be a communication bunker as we see many antennas on the roof

picture of 1948

picture 1954

here the two unknown bunkers at the entrance
One coulb be a 502 the other seems a VF but that s not for sure and the zisterne for water is next the "502"

[dirk Peeters]

Now what about the command post here with also his many antennas on the roof
picture of 1948
we see the shadows of the antennas still in place in 1948
also remarquable the command post is surrounded with concrete barracks (style Margival)
The barracks cover also the entrance defences
here we see the entrance defences almost free of the barracks

as wee see (1971) the roof is repaered and all antennas (and fixations ) are removed and here they are destroying the last barracks
That Command post is not one bunker but three different ones connected toghether we see the joint good on the above pictures
one part of this huge complew was for the machines (can we speak of an E werk here ?
here is the plan (sorry no full optioned plan that we keep for ourselves)

here the two entrances defences which one is incorporated in the barrack so this one seems not in use ...

[dirk Peeters]

here the plan of the defences

That s all for the moment of this remarquable site

[dirk Peeters]

one of our Belfra team members in action (Dirk Verstraeten) in Pignerolles

Surely we are planning a new tour there
Dirk

[dirk Peeters]

I can say of all the other bunkers here not one is alike they are all different
Dirk

[dirk Peeters]

on this detail we see the particular entrances of this bunker
its 2 m thick but the entrances are not that protected strange
this is only so for one bunker

Dirk

[dirk Peeters]

here one of the few surviving "Zisternes"

Dirk