Aeschiried artillery plant
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The Aeschiried artillery plant (army designation “Sand” A 1966–1969) is located in the Aeschiried district of the municipality of Aeschi near Spiez on the left bank of Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland . The plant belonged to the operational area of the 3rd Division and from 1947 to the Reduit Brigade 21 . The work was created from 1942 and was abandoned as a weapon position in 1947.
history
The impetus for the construction of the plant was given by the new army position in the Reduit ordered by General Guisan (Operation Orders No. 11, 12, 13). The 3rd Division (Bern Division) was withdrawn from the Limmat position and moved from the Fricktal to the new operational area on both sides of Lake Thun.
By order of March 1941, the 3rd Division formed the division artillery groups (Div Art Gr) I on the right and II on the left bank of Lake Thun. The firing positions of Division Artillery Group II were in the Faulensee-Krattigen-Reichenbach-Aeschi-Hondrich area. The Heinrich command post was the central fire coordination / fire control center with command and observation posts for the artillery works around Lake Thun.
In mid-1942, the shell of four bunkers for artillery pieces began in the vicinity of the 300 meter Feldmoos shooting range (sand pits). The bunkers were camouflaged as agricultural buildings (stables). They were not connected to each other with tunnels. Individual facilities (collective mask protection) were still unfinished in March 1945.
- Artillery bunker A 1966 ⊙
- Artillery bunker A 1967 ⊙
- Artillery bunker A 1968 ⊙
- Artillery bunker A 1969 ⊙
The armouring consisted of four 10.5 cm fortress guns (Kan 35) on parallel lever mounts . The system was operated in 1940 by the heavy motor cannon battery (Sch Mot Kan Bttr) 136 and from 1941 by the Sch Mot Kan Bttr 128.
Aeschiried radio center
Because of the exposed location (air raid), the bunkers were abandoned as weapons positions in 1947 and used for other purposes. With the formation of the special service in the intelligence and defense (UNA) subgroup (successor P-26 and Project 27 ), a radio center (transmitter / receiver equipment) was established in Hentschenried from around 1965 and in Aeschiried from 1979. The radio center consisted of three Siemens 1 kW shortwave transmitters with a long-wire antenna and a broadband dipole antenna . The receiving system was equipped with a Watkins-Johnson receiver and two spatially separated receiving antennas. The radio center should enable the central management to contact the various resistance zones and any exile location of the Federal Council.
literature
- Hans-Rudolf Schoch: The heavy motor cannon units . In: The Krattigen Artillery Works A1952 . Frutigen 2015.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Fortress Oberland: Artillery Bunker Aeschiried BE A1966–69
- ↑ Fortress Oberland: Secret connections from Aeschiried
- ^ HS publications: publishing house for publications on Swiss fortifications, bunkers and fortresses, Frutigen
Coordinates: 46 ° 38 '54.2 " N , 7 ° 42' 15.8" E ; CH1903: six hundred twenty thousand three hundred and forty-five / 166386