Dauensfelder battery

Third entrance to Wilhelmshaven

The Dauensfelder battery was as part of the fortress plan Wilhelmshavens a battery to protect the Prussian naval base in Wilhelmshaven . It was at the place of the III. Driveway integrated in the dike.

history

The Dauensfelder Battery was one of the first fortifications in Wilhelmshaven. Construction of the battery began in 1873 and construction work was completed in 1876. At first it was armed with 13 guns between hollow trusses . The battery was later armored with eight heavy guns (24 cm). It was canceled in 1900/1901, as the III. Driveway was built. The flanks of Fort Heppens were reinforced with the guns .

literature

• Friedrich August Greve: The air defense in the Wilhelmshaven section 1939-1945. 2nd Navy Flak Brigade. Hermann Lüers, Jever 1999, ISBN 3-9806885-0-X
• Herman Frobenius : History of the Prussian engineer and pioneer corp from the middle of the 19th century to 1886, Berlin 1906.

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. ↑ ^{a b} Herman Frobenius: History of the Prussian engineer and pioneer corp from the middle of the 19th century to 1886 . Berlin 1906, p. 223, 351 .
3. ^ Friedrich August Greve: The air defense in the Wilhelmshaven section 1939-1945. 2nd Navy Flak Brigade . Hermann Lüers, Jever 1999, ISBN 3-9806885-0-X , p. 9 .
4. ^ 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 .