Schortens anti-aircraft battery
The heavy flak battery Schortens was a bunkered position of the naval flak in the west of Wilhelmshaven during the Second World War .
Location and structure
The Schortens flak battery was located on Schooster Strasse directly west of Fort Schortens, which was built during the First World War . It was on the eastern edge of Schortens in the direction of Schoost . The battery consisted of four artillery bunkers which were arranged around a central control station , which was not used. To the east between the facility and the fort there was a machine bunker with a 2 cm anti-aircraft gun . In the west between control station 2 and the battery was a bunker with a 2-cm anti-aircraft quadruplet . Control room 2 was located about 80 meters west of the bunker battery. Even further to the west was the position of a Würzburg radar . To the north of the battery was a canteen building with a common room. The infantry factory in the old fort was used as an ammunition bunker.
Organizational integration
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 252, whose Flakuntergruppenkommando West was in Heidmühle .
history
8.8 cm - In Fort Schortens
The first anti-aircraft battery was established in 1938 and 1939 as a field position in Fort Schortens. The four 8.8 cm guns were exchanged for four 10.5 cm guns in the fall of 1940 . However, when the construction work for the new bunker began in October 1941, these were returned to Wilhelmshaven for modification. So that 8.8-cm guns were used again.
10.5 cm expansion
At the end of June 1942, the Schortens battery bunkers were completed. At this time, the new 10.5 cm guns were installed and the alignment equipment was installed on the control rooms. Due to electronic problems, the battery could only be reported for action on July 26, 1942 with three guns. The fourth gun followed on August 8, 1942.
End of war
At the end of the war, two 8.8 cm anti-aircraft guns from the cruiser Köln , which was sunk in the Wilhelmshaven construction port , had been installed, but they were no longer used.
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 , pp. 174f.
Web links
- Flak battery Schortens on www.luftschutzbunker-wilhelmshaven.de, with photographs.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e 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. 174 f .
- ^ Friedrich August Greve: The air defense in the Wilhelmshaven section 1939-1945. 2nd Navy Flak Brigade . Hermann Lüers, Jever 1999, p. 48 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '22.3 " N , 7 ° 56' 0.5" E