Fort Jungfernbusch
The Fort Jungfernbusch (also Fort Heidmühle) was a fortification to protect the naval port of Wilhelmshaven .
Location and structure
The fort was built as a closed lunette . The facility was designed for two platoons of infantry (~ 80 men). The facility was 180 meters long and 100 meters wide. It was in Schortens between Mühlenweg and Bebelstraße. Today hardly anything can be seen of the facility.
history
Fort Jungfernbusch was built before the First World War . The Jungfernbusch flak battery and the Jungfernbusch battery lay south of the fort. During the Second World War the one FuMG 303 Freya Type 41 G (fB) was set up here. To protect this facility, there were several 2-cm anti-aircraft weapons on the facility.
Web links
Fort Jungfernbusch , on www.bunker-whv.de, with numerous pictures.
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 .
- ^ 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 .
- ^ 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. 274 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '17.6 " N , 7 ° 56" 10.7 " E