Fort Hooksiel

Fort Hooksiel with central infantry station

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

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). The floor plan of Fort Hooksiel approaches a trapezoid . It has a length of 210 meters from southwest to northeast, the width is 110 meters. The graft , which is still in good condition today, carries water and is 10 to 30 meters wide. In the north-west of the facility, two small sections of the former wall can still be seen, which is 1.2 meters high. An infantry plant was located in the center of the complex.

history

View over the Fortgraben

Fort Hooksiel was laid out in the second half of the 19th century as an outer fort of the strategically important war port of Wilhelmshaven. During the Second World War , the Hooksiel anti-aircraft battery was installed in Fort Hooksiel .

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. ^ 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. 191 f .

Coordinates: 53 ° 38 ′ 2.1 ″  N , 8 ° 1 ′ 38 ″  E