Fort Niens

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

Fort Niens was on the left side of the picture.

location

Location of the six Butjadinger forts behind the water obstacles.

The fort was built as a closed lunette . The facility was designed for two platoons of infantry (~ 80 men). It was about 180 × 120 meters in size. The moat no longer exists today.

Position of the forts to protect Wilhelmshaven.

history

Fort Niens was laid out in 1916 during the First World War . The facility had bunkers. During the Second World War , the 6th light flak training company was relocated to the Niens infantry factory in December 1940 . At that time the fort still consisted of old bunkers and a living barrack. The living conditions were initially poor because heating the bunker and supplying drinking water were difficult. The training company's shooting range was initially set up with four shooting ranges on the dike near Langwarden . In the first months after the company's entry, the bunkers were renewed. In May 1941, 80% of the course participants were affected by an intestinal infection, which is why drinking water was brought in from Nordenham in a tanker from now on . Due to the poor hygiene, teaching had to be temporarily stopped in July 1941 in the Niens infantry factory.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fortress inventory (c) Martin Klöffler. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
  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. ↑ "In between" / Bunker in Weser-Ems-Land / Ammerland / Wesermarsch / Nordenham / Oldenburger Land - Hatten - Hude - Stuhr - Weyhe - Schönemoor - Wüsting - Wardenburg - Ganderkesee - Großenkneten - Huntlosen - Kirchweyhe - Dünsen - Wildeshausen - Hasbergen - Flak protection Bremen - air defense HB-Del air bases and deployment ports / Delmenhorst / Cloppenburg / Emsland / Grafschaft Bentheim / Nordhorn / Osnabrücker Land Nord / Oldenburger Münsterland / Diepholz. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
  4. ^ 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. 99 ff .


Defense structures to protect Wilhelmshaven


Coastal batteries

Battery Horumersiel • dike battery Schillig • Meadow battery Schillig • Watt Battery Schillig • dike Eckwarderhörne battery • Battery Mellum • Fort Heppens • Groden battery • Dauensfelder battery • Left wing Battery • Battery Nordmole • Battery Südmole

Landside defense works

Large forts: Fort Mariensiel • Fort Schaar • Fort Rüstersiel Small forts: Commander's post Crildumersiel • Fort Hooksiel • Fort Tammhausen • Fort Altona • Fort Wehlens • Fort Sillenstede • Fort Moorwarfen • Fort Siebetshaus • Fort Jungfernbusch • Fort Schortens • Fort Dykhausen • Fort Hohemey • Fort Blauhand • Fort Ellenserdamm • Fort Meedengroden • Fort Wehgast • Fort Nordendergroden • ( Infantry factory Vareler Hafen ) • Fort Stollhammerdeich • Fort Iffens • Fort Mitteldeich • Fort Sinsum • Fort Fedderwardersiel • Fort Niens

Flak batteries - World War II

Flakbatterie Tirpitzhafen • Flakbatterie sands • Flakbatterie Schaar • Flakbatterie Kirchreihe • Flakbatterie Geniusbank • Flakbatterie Rüstersiel • Flakbatterie Tirpitzschleuse • Flakbatterie Raeder lock • Flakbatterie Schweiburg • Flakbatterie Seefeld • Flakbatterie Vareler port • Flakbatterie Dangast • Flakbatterie Blauhand • Flakbatterie Hohemey • Flakbatterie Schortens • Flakbatterie Siebetshaus • Flakbatterie Sillenstede • Flakbatterie Hooksiel • Flakbatterie Horumersiel • Flakbatterie Schillig • Flakbatterie Mellum • Flakbatterie Langwarden • Flakbatterie Tossens • Flakbatterie Eckwarderhörne • floating Flakbatterie Arcona • floating Flakbatterie Medusa

Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 30.2 "  N , 8 ° 20 ′ 28.9"  E