Bunker 599

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Bunker 599
View from the bunker to the lake

Bunker 599 is an installation in the area of ​​the city of Culemborg in the Dutch province of Gelderland . It is a bunker cut into two parts with access to a small artificial lake.

bunker

Bunker 599 was part of the 700 bunker New Dutch Waterline , a line of defense that was intended to prevent German troops from advancing towards the fortress of Holland by flooding large areas between the Zuiderzee or IJsselmeer and Waal . It is of the Groepsschuilplaats Type P bunker type and was built in 1940 to provide protection for 13 soldiers. It lies at the foot of the Diefdijk, which forms the border between the provinces of Utrecht and Gelderland, about 150 meters south of Autobahn 2 from Utrecht to 's-Hertogenbosch .

installation

Bunker 599 is an installation by the Dutch landscape architecture firm RAAAF together with the Atelier de Lyon, which was completed in 2010. A wire saw was used to cut out a segment a good meter wide in the middle of the bunker in 40 days. A staircase leads down from the dike to the bunker and a concrete slab path runs between the bunker halves to a footbridge over an artificial lake, which is intended to remind of the planned flooding of the area. The bunker and jetty are freely accessible.

The installation received the Dutch Design Award - Best Exterior in 2011 and the AR Emerging Architecture Award in 2013 .

Bunker 599 has been a Rijksmonument since 2014 . It is also part of the nomination of the New Dutch Waterline as a UNESCO World Heritage Site .

Web links

Commons : Bunker 599  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

proof

  1. ↑ a b Alyn Griffiths: Movie shows concrete bunker cut in half by RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon at www.dezeen.com on December 11, 2013, accessed on April 29, 2019
  2. ^ Bunker 599 - Landscape project in the Netherlands at www.baunetz.de from November 5, 2010, accessed on April 29, 2019
  3. ↑ Rose Etherington: Winners of 2011 Dutch Design Awards announced on www.dezeen.com on October 22, 2011, accessed on April 29, 2019
  4. ^ Joint Winner - Bunker 599 by RAAAF & Atelier de Lyon on emergingarchitecture.architectural-review.com, accessed on April 29, 2019
  5. ↑ Monument number: 531728 te Culemborg on monumentenregister.cultureelerfgoed.nl, accessed on April 29, 2019
  6. ↑ UNESCO nomination dossier: Nieuwe Hollandse Waterlinie - Uitbreiding va de Stelling van Amsterdam , accessed on April 29, 2019

Coordinates: 51 ° 56 ′ 9.4 ″  N , 5 ° 9 ′ 12.6 ″  E