Fort Blauhand

Scope of Fort Blauhand with infantry work

Photo of Fort Blauhand from the southeast, the fort is overgrown.

The Fort Blauhand was a fortification to protect the naval port of Wilhelmshaven .

Location and structure

Position of the forts to protect Wilhelmshaven.

Fort Blauhand is located southwest of Blauhand . It was built as a closed bezel . The facility was designed for two platoons of infantry (~ 80 men). The system was 180 meters long and 120 meters wide. Today the southwest part of the moat is still preserved.

history

Fort Blauhand was built in 1915/16 during the First World War . To the north of the facility there were still three batteries during World War I, the Ellens flak battery, the Blauhand flak battery and the Blauhand battery. During the Second World War it was reactivated as a Blauhand anti-aircraft battery for the air defense of Wilhelmshaven .

Web links

• Flakbatterie Blauhand at www.luftschutzbunker-wilhelmshaven.de, with photographs.

Panorama of the area around Fort Blauhand

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. ^ 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. ^ 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. 168 f .

Coordinates: 53 ° 26 ′ 27.2 "  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 49.2"  E