Zeebrugge StP Barbara HKB

[dirk Peeters]

The Leitstand of Barbara is known
the map

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[dirk Peeters]

verified pictures

Leitstand 01 01a.jpg (78.62 KiB) Viewed 1055 times

Leitstand 01 01b.jpg (40.99 KiB) Viewed 1055 times

the front

we see here the "new" added part or the bunker with the 2 m walls
here the old Leitstand without the new one

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Leitstand 01 03.jpg (8.39 KiB) Viewed 1055 times

[dirk Peeters]

another one

Leitstand 01 04a.jpg (27.62 KiB) Viewed 1054 times

here the leitstand in 1946

the 502 beside the Leitstand (in construction here)

on the map i above we see no other construction as the 502 (nr 26) and the leitstand (nr 24)
whein i look at the aerial picture there is something od

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the 502 is measured by the belgian army

[dirk Peeters]

we see another observationpost beside the three already there

on this wartime picture we see nothing

Leitstand 01 01a.jpg (78.62 KiB) Viewed 1053 times

on the picture of 1946 we see it

anybody has more info ? or other pictures ?
on the aerial picture of 1944 we see it
red ciircle (posted above)
but is looks already destroyed about 1953

[dirk Peeters]

i ve just seen that the belgian plan contains errors
Going to try to remove them

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Dirk

[dirk Peeters]

here is a plan with use of the pictures and respecting the wall thickness of the "type 1" obs (as in Duinbergen , de Panne aso)

[dirk Peeters]

remarquable that the type 1 in Middelkerke has on the same spot as this one herea "notausgang"
perhaps the germans has made the same here at Barbara (a type 1 with emergency exit )

[dirk Peeters]

some more pictures

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love to see a plan of the building in bricks
this is also a two storey building

[dirk Peeters]

two more

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Leitstand 01 05a.jpg (77.25 KiB) Viewed 1015 times

[pierrot]

Hello Dirk,

The small observation post is the Nr 25 on the full plan of the position. It is still visible on the aerial of 1948 hereunder.
About the bunkers west of the Leuvenstraat (Nr 17 to 29), autorisation for demolition has been released by the Belgian Army on 14-02-1952 and a demolition request order has been issued by the Ministery of Public Works on 12-04-1952. I just know Aanneming Braet got the contract to demolish those constructions but I didn't find the detailled report of this work in the Public Archives.
In the Archives "War damages compensation) (Oorlogsschade), I found just a document with the measurements of part of the Leitstand. Maybe it can help to correct your plan.

Gr.

Pierrot

[dirk Peeters]

thanks Pierre
i don t understand that the "nahkampfraum is not visible .....
but it looks good
they give 8m60 , i got 8m40 ... so
they give 19m50 for the longest
i came out on 20m20
maybe the observationslit is not 2 meters but also 1m70
then it comes to 19m90
i ll think there is still an error
because the walls are only 1m66 a 1 m70 for the thick one

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