Atlantikwall in Zeeland.

#11 of Murphy's law:

The water in the bunker is always deeper then you think!

 

Wilkie's law; always wear high-leg boots!

 

Addendum to the post about the 2nd 608:

The armoured steel doors seem to be either of the Stahltür 431P01 or the Stahltür 434P01 type. Thinner, interior gas tight doors are Gasschutztür 19P7 (the ones with a little, fireresistant sekurit glas, spyhole) and Gasschutztür 723P3.

 

The third R608

 

Bunker nr 09-628, the first R622 Doppelgruppenunterstand.
















The second R622 Doppelgruppenunterstand.

 

The third R622

 

Links broken while editing!

 

The four Verstärkt feldmässig 52A.

Link to Jean Puellinckx' ground plan:
Regelbau


The first Vf52A Gruppenunterstand.












The second Vf52A.










The third Vf52A.








The fourth Vf52A.

 

Amazing condition with some of the stencil painting still intact. It would certainly be interesting to go back there with a pair of wellies.

 

Double post!

 

Stützpunkt Lohengrin, located on the southern edge of the village of Zoutelande, had six bunkers:

1 X 120 Artilleriebeobachtungsstand mit Panzerturm = artillery observer with armoured tower.
1 X 143a Artillerie Beobachterstand mit kleinem Art. Beob. Turm = artillery observer with small observation tower
2 X 501 Einfacher Gruppenunterstand = group shelter
2 X 502 Doppelgruppenunterstand = double group shelter

The RB 120 has been destroyed, all the others are still intact. I haven't been able to locate Bunker nr 022-259 though, maybe next time I will have better luck.


Bunker nr 022-249 a 502 Doppelgruppenunterstand. Not accessible, it lies on private land.

Link to the plan:
Regelbau







Bunker nr 022-248 a 502 Doppelgruppenunterstand is a museum, it's on my list for visiting in september 2012.












Bunker nr 022-252 a 143a Artillerie Beobachterstand mit kleinem Artillerie Beobachtungs Turm is another museum.

Link to the plans:
Regelbau

















The external shaft leading up from the emergency exit.




The armoured cuppola for the artillery observation periscope, it is of the type: Kleiner Artillerie-Beobachter 462P01.






The original iron bar door that closed off the bunker, it's a Gittertür für Zugänge 491P2 type.

 

Bunker nr 022-253 a 501 Einfacher Gruppenunterstand.

I was searching for this bunker for nearly half an hour until I discovered that it was only about ten meters below the footpath!

Link to the floorplan:
Regelbau







I think I don't need to give any explanations anymore. Please note the different type of armoured door though, it seems to be a two part Stahltür 434P01.

 

Wow! As I have been trying to look at each pic in a rapid manner---the length of this inflicted a true taxing of my available memory for the processor and only survived by some rapid shots of data to the hard drive....which had to be recovered for me to regain sight of the photos again. Needless to say I had to wait a bit for my slow system to recover to be able to view these pics. It was very interesting to see how well these facilities have survived. As many of us are not there.....it is harder to imagine what was constructed for war from book descriptions and much more true to scale to get a view of what was there from these pictures. Thank you for presenting them.

 

During this summers stay in Nord Beveland I went hunting for some more Atlantikwall Bunkers. On my first trip I returned to the Stützpunkt Lohengrin to visit the two Museum Bunkers.
First comes the Bunker Nr. 022-252 Regelbau 143 Artillerie Beobachtungsstand mit kleinem Artillerie Beobachtungs Turm.


The stairwell leading into the Bunker's entryfloor.




View from the entryfloor into the gaslock, behind the second door lies the readyroom for the crew. Of course the wooden door is not original, note the inclined entry defense loophole on the left side wall.




Original writing on the wall of the gaslock. Jegliches Anschliessen von elektrischen Geräten gefährdet die Gesamtanlage und ist daher verboten = "The connection of any kind of electrical apparatus is prohibited as it endangers the functioning of the whole complex




Groundplan of the RB143.




View from the gaslock into the readyroom for the crew.




The original gastight door.




The gaslock as seen from the readyroom.




View from the readyroom into the flanking defense.




The flanking defense loophole.










The emergency exit.








The inside of the readyroom, originally there were cots, a table with benches or chairs as well as an oven in this room, also
missing is the airfilter that would have been to the right of the emergency exit.




The workroom, where the plotting tables would have been, as seen from the readyroom.




The entrydefense loophole in the workroom.




View of the workroom from the base of the observation cuppola.




The ladder leading into the armoured observation cuppola.




The observation cloche as seen from below.






The inside of the observation cloche.

 

Another fruitful visit with some great photos. Thanks for posting!

 

Bunker Nr. 022-148 the second museum bunker of Stp. Lohengrin is a Regelbau 502 Doppelgruppenunterstand













A locking mechanism has been added to the original armoured door, note the original bunker toilet in the gaslock.



Bereitschaftsraum = "Ready Room"




Gastight door.








The right hand ready rooms has been returned into it's original state.




An original Bunkerofen.




The Lüfter" ="Airfilter"










The second, left hand ready room is filled with original german commo equipment, small arms and other paraphernalia.




A periscope that could be mounted in an small observation cloche adjacent to the furnished, right hand ready room, the cloche is not accessible as the furnished part is fenced off.

 

There are supposed to be four FA Unterstand shelters at Stp. Lohengrin, I located two of them, both are on private ground so I couldn't get decent pics of the shelters.



This is the best picture I could get.




The shelter must be somewhere behind the hedgerow in the background.

 

I love this place; who needs travel agents to decide where to go on holiday next year?!

 

I really enjoyed and appreciate these photos--If I ever get back to the Netherlands, there's obviously places like this to visit! Thank you SKYLINEDRIVE for your work on this

Do you know the situation regarding German-built flak towers in Holland? Were there any/many?

 

Good that you like it my friends, I will carry on!

@ Schwarzfeder: Afaik as I know there were no Flak-Türme in the Netherlands.