Siebetshaus anti-aircraft battery
The Siebetshaus heavy flak battery was a bunkered position of the naval flak in Jever during the Second World War .
Location and structure
The Siebetshaus heavy flak battery was located in Fort Siebetshaus, built in 1915, between Heidmühle and Jever. The facility consisted of four bunkered positions for the anti-aircraft guns, which were arranged around a central control station . To the south of the fort was a building with a common room, kitchen and office. Outside the fort on the east side was an accommodation barrack.
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 Siebetshaus
The Siebetshaus heavy flak battery reported operational readiness with four 8.8-cm anti-aircraft guns from the Baltic Sea area on September 20, 1939 . At first the guns were positioned in makeshift positions. In the following year, the battery was to be expanded into a bunker battery. For this purpose, concrete gun beds as well as a new control station and a machine bunker were to be created. The most important work was completed at the end of 1940. Subsequently, the accommodations and the common room in the facilities of the old fort were expanded, because they no longer met the standards of the time. Since almost all trades were represented among the soldiers, the work could be carried out by yourself. The battery had a large vegetable garden which brought in considerable income.
10.5 cm expansion and shutdown
The battery was converted to 10.5 cm guns in February 1943 , which were reported as ready for action on February 27. In January 1944 the battery was shut down in favor of the unarmored Raederschleuse battery . Another reason was that the batteries in Schortens and Sillenstede were already equipped with 12.8 cm guns and, due to the associated greater range, could take over the air defense at Siebetshaus. On January 29, 1944, the battery crew left their positions and took over the new 12.8 cm battery in Hohemey .
Use until the end of the war
After the departure of the original crew, an operating team from the Navy Flak Division 232 moved a 3.7 cm anti-aircraft gun to Fort Lage. This stand was destroyed by a bomb hit on October 15, 1944.
post war period
The facility was blown up after the war. There are still some remains of concrete. Today there are residential houses on the site at the end of Lerchenweg in Moorwarfen .
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. 178f.
Web links
- Siebetshaus flak battery at 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. 178 f .
- ^ Friedrich August Greve: The air defense in the Wilhelmshaven section 1939-1945. 2nd Navy Flak Brigade . Hermann Lüers, Jever 1999, p. 48 .
- ↑ Siebetshaus heavy flak battery. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '21.7 " N , 7 ° 55' 14.6" E