Fortifications of Imperial Germany

[DaSk]

Hello!

Does anybody has got any information of Wallmaister houses? Plans, drawings, some information about this buildings? I will be very grateful for help.

Regards

DaSk

[JKernwerk]

Never heard of those.
What do they look like?
JK

[jopaerya]

Looks the old Festen were integrated in the defence of Metz in 1944 , sorry it's very blurry
but you can see the Festen Kronprinz and Kaiserin . ( document = http://www.germandocsinrussia.org/ )

Regards Jos

[ErwinZ]

Ahh the good old Prussian area. The time where they actually invented the term 'bunker'.

[nordfriese]

Hi!

Don't forget the north:

http://english.slks.dk/index.php?id=29824
http://www.fortress-scandinavia.dk/Sik_ ... /index.htm
http://verdenskrigensspor.dk/en/
http://www.team-schack.dk/siknord2.htm
http://www.damals.de/de/8/Vergessene-Be ... howDetails
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicherungsstellung_Nord

Best wishes
Rolf

[CNOCK]

Hi,

for Sturm78
Leitstand Belgian coast:
Battery Deutschland (4 x 38 cm) at Bredene

regards,

Cnock

[forttravel]

Searching for other subject I found in Jacar archive a set of documents attached to treaty of Versailles annexes under the tittle Ausrüstung der Batterien der Festung xxx mit Handhabungsgerät, Werkzeugen usw. for following areas; Pillau, Swinemünde, Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Borkum, Norderey. Each one has a list of existing batteries with its armament.

[forttravel]

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[forttravel]

Postcard from Pillau, typical Ringkannone VPL emplacement on brick made fort/battery.

[Bunkerfreak]

Ow! i just discovered this thread! i'm studying the Kaiserliche Fortifikation Antwerpen (KFA) for some years now, i have a LOT to share!

Nice to see the bunkers in Strasbourg! that MG/Scheinwerfer looks a lot like those build here in Antwerpen. (some 700-800 Kaiserliche bunkers are still remaining arround Antwerpen.)

[Bunkerfreak]

An Infanterie and Artillerie-beobachter in the Westabschnitt of the Festung Antwerpen (1916 - 1917):

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[Bunkerfreak]

Serious guys, i have to select them, because it is for me like you guys have to present the best of the entire Atlantikwall into one thread:

Here you see an "Unterschlupf für 16 Mann", (U14) in the 3.I.regimentsabschnitt of the Nordabschnitt Antwerpen. We opened this bunker last summer (at work) with a crane because all ww1 and interbellum bunkers on Belgian soils where closed up with 1m thick masonry walls somewhere in 1943 - 1944 by order of the German forces.

We found two PIAT At-grenades inside (remains from the battles between Canadian forces and the 67 AK in 1944. 67AK was defending the entrance to Walcheren from this point, (Northern Antwerpen). Besides the WW1 bunkers, this area have a huge history on and between both world wars.

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[Bunkerfreak]

besides the Kaiserliche betonbauten, we also have a lot of remains from the Kaiserliche troops inside the old Fortresses of Antwerpen: At Fort Ertbrand (Kapellen) you can find this very nice "Gott mit Uns" from WW1

Traditorebatterij -- 28 07 2013 BFA (131).JPG

if anyone have more documents about the Kaiserliche Fortifikation Antwerpen, please feel free to share them with me

Tom Oliviers,
Bunkerfreaks Antwerpen

[Bunkerfreak]

Besides the KFA, we also visited the KFM (Metz), which contains also a LOT of kaiserliche fortifications:

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[Bunkerfreak]

Another WK1 Wellblech, thisone is a double wellblech (two next to each other), maybe the predecessor of the VF 7d (?)

You can find thisone at the Batterie Hospitalwald in the Festung Metz

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