Battery Waddens

The Waddens Battery was a fortress to protect the mouth of the Weser in Waddens . With the jumps at Großwürden , Groß-Fedderwarder, Blexen and the jump on the Oberahnschen fields, it is one of the five French jumps in Butjadingen .

construction

The battery was located in an upstream fort , which was connected by a dam to the sea dike at the Waddenser pump.

history

Work on the batteries in Butjadingen began in the autumn of 1810. The primary purpose of the facility was to enforce the continental barrier against England, ie to prevent smuggling. It should also make it more difficult for enemy troops to land.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Frank Gosch: fortress construction on the North Sea and Baltic Sea. The history of the German coastal fortifications until 1918 . 1st edition. Mittler, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-8132-0743-9 , pp. 51-64 .
2. ↑ Gustav Rüthning: Oldenburgische history . tape 2 , 1911, p. 374 ff .
3. ^ Wilhelms Janßen: The Vareler harbor . 1993, p. 66 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 45.2 ″  N , 8 ° 26 ′ 10.9 ″  E