Fort Sillenstede
The Fort Sillenstede 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 fort is located northeast of Sillenstede. It has an oval dimension of 200 × 140 meters.
history
Fort Sillenstede was built in the second half of the 19th century as an outer fort of the strategically important war port of Wilhelmshaven. There was an infantry factory and an ammunition bunker on the site. South of the fort there was a flak battery and the Sillenstede battery as early as the First World War , both of which were built as earth positions. In 1939, the Sillenstede heavy flak battery was installed on the site .
Web links
Fort Sillenstede , on http://www.festung-wilhelmshaven.de
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. 182 f .
Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 54.3 " N , 7 ° 59 ′ 27.3" E