Gun bunkers in granite

[jopaerya]

Hello

At some places of the Atlantikwall there made use of granite tunnels and only small amounts of concrete
to constucted a bunker , typical examples are , Fort du Roule , Fort de Aleth , Pointe du Grouin and at Biarritz .

I am looking for these kind of bunkers that were build solitairy just like the one in the sector Mo ( Bretagne )
and Brest , does somebody know more of these typical bunkers . They could only build in sectors were solid
granite was available .

Regards Jos

[JTG]

Two in Jersey

http://bunkersite.com/locations/ci/jersey/670-cath.html
http://bunkersite.com/locations/ci/jers ... etacq.html

Not quite the same but lovely anyway!

http://bunkersite.com/locations/ci/jers ... orb-1.html

Another plug for AvB!

John

[jopaerya]

Thanks John

Here a other one from the KVA Morlaix .

Photo= Dirk Peeters

Regards Jos

[AvB]

More pictures

[AvB]

More Varnes Fyr, on Lista.

[Ba 70 Alex]

Hi Jos, hi all!

you have here some photos from Ba51 Pointe Sainte-Barbe -Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France-, and here the rock is not granite (in fact it's flysch -a courious sedimentary geological formation...-), so it seems that granite was suitable but not necessary.

Regards

Alex

Ba51 Saint Jean de Luz 01.jpg (113.69 KiB) Viewed 2247 times

Photo SHM from the book "Atlantikwall mythe ou réalité" (A. Chazette ...)

Ba51 Saint Jean de Luz 02.jpg (100.33 KiB) Viewed 2247 times

Ba51 Saint Jean de Luz 03.jpg (146.32 KiB) Viewed 2247 times

[jopaerya]

Thanks Arthur and Alex

Great picture's , of these sort of bunkers . Here a other one's from Ba 41 ( Miramar ) .

Regards Jos

[fortrees44]

Here another one in Ba 34.

Regards fortrees44

[Ba 70 Alex]

Hello all,

I knew this tipe of subterranean construction as "Kaverne" (Cavern), but in Alain Chazette's book :"Armements et & Ouvrages de forteresse -Mur de l'Atlantique- Volume 2" they appear named as "Stollen" (Tunnel).

In the Bayonne area (Ba) there are four Stp. of this type of building: Ba 34 -Pointe Saint Martin, Biarritz-; Ba 40 and Ba 39 -Atalaye, Biarritz-; Ba 41 -Miramar, Biarritz-; Ba 51 -Pointe Sainte Barbe, Saint Jean de Luz- and in Ba 60 -Pointe Sainte Anne, Hendaye- germans began drilling the tunnels but their construction remained unfinished.

Regards,

Alex

Ba 41 Miramar -Biarritz-.jpg (82.79 KiB) Viewed 2185 times

[20P7]

Hello Jos and others,

allready in 1939 there was a order given by the OKH about the replacement of concrete by rock. In this paper dated 31.05.1939 there are detailed explanations how much to reduce the outer walls of bunkers in strenght A and B. Even if this paper was ment to be used by the Festungspioniere building the Westwall it was also the basement for other regulations given later on during the war. The dimensions are in short terms:

A buildings outer walls may be reduced to 2 m and B buildings outer walls may be reduced to 1 m. This reductions may not start before a strength of rock of 1,5 m deepness. The foundation may be reduced to 30 cm.

Please find attached some other examples of bunkers build into the rock.

Regards

Daniel

[JTG]

Arthur,

did you investigate the bunkers on the North headland of Fécamp Harbour?

Or anyone else, know whether they are "tunnelled"?

Saw them there yesterday but only passing through: three or four above each other, possibly a couple of PakK 4.7s?

John

[Heim62]

Hello,
among various buildings, the north Cliffs of Fécamp "côte de la Vierge", called Fe09 by the Germans, got 1x 676, 1x 630 and 1x 612.

RV

[jopaerya]

Hello

Here a other nice example of a H.K.B. ( 4 x 12.2 cm K 390 (r) ) at La Rove ( Sudwall )

Photo = Sudwall Forum

Regards Jos

[20P7]

Hello Jos,

HKB La Rove is really a nice one. Did you charter a small aircraft to take this aerial shot? We entered this battery in 2005 old-fashioned by feet

http://www.atlantikwall-research-norway ... r-AR-15189

Regards Daniel

[moonraker]

hello,

is missing! stollen to 669 wn MO07 louanec !!!



Uploaded with ImageShack.us

a small gift for jos, I do not think a person is the picture of the tip 612 of the castle was inside. I managed entry ay!



Uploaded with ImageShack.us

PS:of course jos was well on my next visit in Holland or dirk will give you all my photos but for now there is nothing.