Fort Moorwarfen
The Fort Moorwarfen 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). It was east of Jever . To the north, the Great Moorwarder Tief was connected. Today the site of the fort is partially built over with the Jever bypass. The system was 200 meters long and 90 meters wide.
history
Fort Moorwarfen was built before the First World War as an outer fort of the strategically important war port of Wilhelmshaven. The Moorwarfen flak battery was located south of the fort during the First World War, and the Flörenkamp flak battery to the south-east of the fort. During World War II, a 150 cm was here searchlights for naval flak installed. In 1945 the facility was blown up.
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 .
- ↑ Flak positions in the Wilhelmshaven area and the immediate vicinity. Retrieved November 15, 2019 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '11.8 " N , 7 ° 56' 2.8" E