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By Jens Andersen Hanstholm, northern Danmark.
The bunker museum includes one of the gun sites of
the 38 cm battery "Hanstholm II" and the whole the 17 cm battery
"Hanstholm I".
The museum bunker of "Hanstholm II" was
built during 1940-41 and housed a 38 cm S.K.C/34 in a "land turret"
(Bettungsschiessgerät C/39). The bunker covers an area of about 3.000 m2 and
housed the 90 man crew, machine rooms, bath room, toilet and ammunition rooms
with about 160 shells and charges.
The museum bunker has partly been restored back to
it's original state. Unfortunately the big gun has not been preserved, but a 15
cm S.K. C/28 has been placed in the area as an exhibit. Also parts of the
ammunition railway has been restored, so that it is possible to take a ride on
it through one of the gun sites and an ammunition bunker.
At Easter 2002 a new exhibition building at the
museum bunker will be opened. The building, a prize winning project, is in it
self very interesting architectonically. In the new building an exhibition
about the Atlantic Wall in Hanstholm and Denmark is in being prepared. One of
the most important exhibits will be an automatic mortar; M 19, which has
recently been recovered from an Regelbau 633 in Agger/DK.
The "Battery I" is an unmanned open-air
museum in which most of the bunkers of the battery has been made accessible.
The battery was established april 1940 in open emplacements. From the summer
of 1942 until spring 1944 19 permanent bunkers were buildt in the battery ( 4
x M 270, 4 x R 502, 1 x R 501, 1 x M 162a, 2 x Fl 242, 2 x M 145, 1 x Fl
277).
Opening hours:
March-October: 10.00 - 16.00 June, July, August: 10.00 - 17.00 The old munitions train runs every day during the summer months and week 42 or by arrangement
Contact:
Museumscenter Hanstholm Molevej 29 DK-7730 Hanstholm Phone: ++45 97 96 17 36 Fax: ++45 05095 e-mail: MCHkanon@post8.tele.dk
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