Fort Altona

Location of Fort Altona

The Fort Altona was part of the fortification plan Wilhelmshaven . The outer fort is located north of Fort Rustersiel .

Location and structure

Position of the forts to protect Wilhelmshaven.

The fort was built as a closed lunette . The facility was designed for two platoons of infantry (~ 80 men). It has an almost rectangular floor plan. It is surrounded by a wall with a height of 2.5 to 4 meters and a graft about 12 meters wide. There is an entrance to the south. Fort Altona was connected to Fort Rustersiel via Möwenstraße, and a narrow-gauge track ran on the eastern side of the road.

history

Fort Altona from the southwest, the complex is surrounded by a dense population of trees.

The outer fort Altona was part of the fortress Wilhelmshaven . It was supposed to repel attacks from the land side towards Wilhelmshaven and was designed as a howitzer battery. The outer fort Altona was built in 1902/03.

A radio transmitter was set up here by the Reichsmarine in the 1920s . Today the area is used as a campsite .

Armament

In 1903, the Altona howitzer battery had four 28-cm howitzers that were set up on beds. They were built in a straight line along the water. The bedding was separated from each other by solid traverses made of earth and hollow trusses made of concrete.

Fort Altona from the southwest, in the foreground the graft, behind the wall of the facility

literature

• W. Brune (ed.) 1986: Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon A – JS 36.
• Wulf, Friedrich-Wilhelm 1996: Archaeological monuments in the independent city of Wilhelmshaven. Material booklets on the prehistory and early history of Lower Saxony, series B 1 esp. 151 card no.105.

See also

• Site of the local camping club.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon AJ . S. 36 .
2. ^ 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 .
3. ^ Wulf: Archaeological monuments in the independent city of Wilhelmshaven. Material booklets on the prehistory and early history of Lower Saxony . 1996.
4. ↑ Doris Wilkens: A ring of fortifications should protect Wilhelmshaven from attacks. Fort Rustersiel changed life in the small Sielort . In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung (ed.): Heimat am Meer . tape 12/2016 . Wilhelmshaven June 11, 2016, p. 46 f .
5. ^ 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 .
6. ^ 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 .
7. ^ Rudi Rolf: The Atlantic Wall: the buildings of the German coastal fortifications 1940-1945. Biblio, Osnabrück 1998, ISBN 3-7648-2469-7 , p. 17 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 19.2 "  N , 8 ° 5 ′ 12.8"  E