Flak battery Sande

The flak battery was located in what is now the wooded area on the sea dike.

The heavy flak battery Sande was a bunkered position of the naval flak in the west of the Jade Bay during World War II .

Location and structure

The battery was located behind the sea dike north of the battery site between Cäciliengroden and the Bundeswehr shooting range . Today the area is privately owned and overgrown.

Organizational integration

Position of the flak batteries in the Wilhelmshaven section

The German Bight Coast Commander was responsible for the coastal defense . The battery belonged as part of the II. Marine Flakbrigade to the Wilhelmshaven section. The flak battery belonged to the Marine Flak division 232, whose Flakuntergruppenkommando Hafen was in the Westwerft.

history

In 1939, the Sande flak battery was equipped with four 10.5 cm anti-aircraft guns. With its four gun bunkers, it was the first of its type. The bunkers had a side length of 9 × 9 meters and a height of 7 meters, so that they could shoot over the sea dike. The ammunition bunker was on the approach to the battery site on today's Mariensieler Strasse. The high-level gun bunkers were equipped with dummy windows and grilles for camouflage. However, the bunkers and outbuildings of the facility were clearly visible from the air. In the late summer of 1940 the guns were fitted with shields. The battery had a radar of the type Würzburg an FuMG-Flum.

post war period

After the surrender, the bunkers were blown up by the occupying forces. Today there are still rubble from these bunkers.

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 , p. 115.

Web links

• Flakbatterie Sande on www.luftschutzbunker-wilhelmshaven.de, with historical photographs and aerial photographs.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} 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. 115 .
2. ^ Friedrich August Greve: The air defense in the Wilhelmshaven section 1939-1945. 2nd Navy Flak Brigade . Hermann Lüers, Jever 1999, p. 48 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 29 '30.7 "  N , 8 ° 3' 2.5"  E