List of preserved buildings of the Siegfried Line

This article lists some structures on the Siegfried Line , as far as they have been preserved or their function can be clearly recognized. The objects are listed in a rough line from north to south and are divided into the individual programs for the construction of the Siegfried Line.

Geldern position, section Brüggen-Kleve

Westwall section Kleve
- Three bunkers of the type Regelbau 102V near Kranenburg - Nütterden
- Standard construction 102V at Kessel
Westwall section Goch
- Five bunkers of the Regelbau 102V type near Goch
- Regelbau 58-c near Niederkrüchten - Elmpt, shortly before the border crossing on the right of the A52

Border guard program

Bunker for the installation of a cannon for anti-tank defense near Aachen-Bildchen
Garage to accommodate an anti-tank cannon near Simmerath
Bunker near Simmerath
Garage to accommodate a cannon for anti-tank defense at Monschau -Konzen

Years of construction 1936–1938 ("Pioneer Program")

Rhineland-Palatinate
- Trier-Saarburg district
  - Westwall Museum Wiltingen B1-1 SK MG-Schartenstand
  - Westwall Museum, Conc
Saarland
- Merzig-Wadern district
  - B-Werk Besseringen
  - Bridge protection bunker Mettlach (standard building B1-1 combined with standard building B1-18)
  - Bridge security bunker Besseringen (double machine gun slot stand, machine gun slot stand, PAK slot stand)
  - Bridge protection bunker Merzig (removed above ground)
  - Regelbau 105B8 (modified) in Besseringen
  - Regelbau 121B8 (modified) in Besseringen
  - Regelbau 121B8 (modified) in Mettlach
  - Regelbau D2 in Beckingen (2 pieces)
  - Standard building C-1 in Merzig
  - Regelbau C-7a near Beckingen (well-preserved ruin)
  - Standard building B1-1 (with yard covering, notch plate missing) in Mettlach
  - Standard building B1-1a (with courtyard covering) in Mettlach
  - Standard building B1-1 above the Saarschleife (with courtyard covering and stone camouflage, 2 pieces)
  - Standard building B1-1 (with courtyard covering) in Besseringen
  - Standard building B1-1 (with yard covering) near St. Gangolf
  - Standard building B1-2a (early design) above the Saar loop (damaged)
  - Standard building B1-2a (modified) in Besseringen
  - Regelbau B1-5a (modified) in Mettlach (3 pieces)
  - Standard building B1-5a (special construction) in Mettlach
  - Regelbau B1-5a in Merzig (4 pieces)
  - Regelbau B1-5a in Besseringen (3 pieces)
  - Standard building B1-5a near Fremersdorf train station
  - Standard building B1-7a in Mettlach (museum bunker)
  - Regelbau B1-7a in Besseringen (3 pieces)
  - Standard building B1-20 in Besseringen
  - Standard building B1-20 near St. Gangolf
  - Standard building B1-22 near St. Gangolf
  - Regelbau B1-23 in Besseringen (2 pieces)
  - Regelbau B1-24 in Mettlach (2 pieces, one of which has a 3P7 dome)
  - Standard building B1-25 in Besseringen
  - Regelbau 522B01 near Besseringen (variant of Regelbau B1-25 in B-old)
  - Three-story special construction near Mettlach
- Saarlouis district
  - MG-Schartenstand (border guard) in Oberesch

Limes program 1938

North Rhine-Westphalia
- Bunker ruins near Niederkrüchten, behind the kart track
- Panzergraben (rest) in the forest opposite the Tüschenbroicher Mühle, Wegberg
- Bunker ruins near Dahlheim-Rödgen
- Bunker ruins on Burgberg Castle Wassenberg
- Protected concrete garage / barn in Wassenberg, Rosenthal
- Three wet anti-tank trenches in the Wurmtal near Geilenkirchen
- Tank obstacle south of Geilenkirchen consisting of concrete and U-profiles made of Czech booty material
- Observation station at Herzogenrath -Bank
- Four spacious various visible residues cusp lines at Aachen -Eilendorf and Münsterbusch
- A bunker as a special structure within Burgau Castle near Düren - Niederau
- Bunker of the type Regelbau 10a (Bunker 371) on the Burgberg near Hürtgenwald - Bergstein
- Bunker of the standard building type 31 (Bunker 370) below the castle hill near Hürtgenwald-Bergstein
- Sanitary bunker of the type Regelbau 32 near Simonskall , the house on the roof of the bunker did not serve to camouflage the bunker, as is often claimed, but was only built in the 1950s.
- Bunker group in the forest area " Buhlert "
  - Two group shelters for standard building type 10 (bunkers 131 and 132)
  - Double group shelter, standard building type 11 (bunker 139/140)
  - MG bunker standard construction type 23 (bunker 135)
  - A bunker for water supply
- Group shelter Regelbau 10 with a house built after the war at Simmerath- Hechelscheidt
- Bunker for water supply near Dahlem - Baasem
- Double group shelter Regelbau 11 at Baasem
- MG-Schartenstand Regelbau 1 B1 / 1 near Berk (Dahlem)
- Bunker under the Dahlem-Kronenburg educational institution
- MG-Schartenstand, modified standard building 23 on the Vennquerbahn
- Two group shelters Regelbau 10a near Dahlem- Kronenburg
- Bunker southeast of Osburg near Landesstraße 151 (formerly Bundesstraße 52 ) on the Grünbrücherschneise
Saarland
- Merzig-Wadern district
  - Regelbau 1 (with open mouth notch) in Bietzen
  - Standard building 1 (with open mouth gap) "Anton" museum bunker near Besseringen (removed)
  - Regelbau 2 in Beckingen
  - Regelbau 10 in Saarhölzbach (4 pieces)
  - Regelbau 10 in Mettlach (2 pieces)
  - Regelbau 10 in Besseringen (4 pieces)
  - Regelbau 10 at St. Gangolf
  - Regelbau 10 in Merzig (8 pieces)
  - Regelbau 10 (with a fighting area attached) in Merzig
  - Regelbau 10 (with a fighting area on top) in Mettlach
  - Regelbau 10 (with covered entrance courtyard) in Merzig
  - Standard building 10 (with trough-type courtyard) in Merzig
  - Regelbau 10 in Harlingen
  - Regelbau 10 in Bietzen (3 pieces)
  - Regelbau 10 in Saarfels
  - Regelbau 10 in Haustadt (2 pieces, 1 museum bunker)
  - Regelbau 10 in Düppenweiler
  - Regelbau 10a in Mettlach (4 pieces)
  - Regelbau 10a (with a fighting area attached) in Besseringen
  - Regelbau 10a in Merzig (9 pieces)
  - Regelbau 10a (with covered entrance courtyard) in Merzig (4 pieces)
  - Regelbau 10a in Bietzen (3 pieces, 1 museum bunker in B-Neu)
  - Regelbau 10a in Beckingen (6 pieces)
  - Regelbau 10a in Düppenweiler (museum bunker)
  - Regelbau 10b1 in Mettlach
  - Regelbau 10b1 in Merzig (2 pieces)
  - Regelbau 11 in Saarhölzbach
  - Regelbau 11 in Besseringen (2 pieces)
  - Regelbau 11 in Merzig
  - Regelbau 11 (with a fighting area attached) in Merzig
  - Regelbau 11 (with covered entrance courtyard) in Merzig
  - Regelbau 11 (without fighting area) in Brotdorf (2 pieces)
  - Regelbau 11 in Düppenweiler (3 pieces)
  - Regelbau 19 in Beckingen
  - Regelbau 19 in Mettlach
  - Standard building 23 (with covered entrance courtyard) in Mettlach
  - Regelbau 23 in Merzig (3 pieces)
  - Regelbau 23 (with covered entrance courtyard) in Merzig
  - Regelbau 31 in Brotdorf
Baden-Württemberg
Regelbau 11 in Neuried-Altenheim (Emilie Bunker)
- Extensive bunkers and fortifications on the Isteiner Klotz
Well-preserved camouflage bunker Regelbau 10a in Neumühl (Kehl)

New building program 1939 (Aachen-Saar program)

Saarland
- Merzig-Wadern district
  - Regelbau 102v in Rimlingen
  - Regelbau 105b in Beckingen (5 pieces)
  - Regelbau 105d in Beckingen (2 pieces)
  - Regelbau 106b in Beckingen
  - Regelbau 108b in Beckingen (2 pieces)
  - Regelbau 110 (with entrance structure and tunnel) in Merzig (5 pieces, 1 museum bunker)
  - Regelbau 114a in Beckingen (museum bunker)
  - Regelbau 114b SK in Saarfels
  - Regelbau 115b in Merzig
  - Standard building 115d near Orscholz (construction canceled, only basement completed)
  - Tunnel system with five rooms on Kieselberg near Merzig
  - Regelbau 120b SK (front slope with covered access) near Harlingen (ruin)
  - Special construction with six-notch tower 20P7 and group in A (two-storey) above the Fremersdorf train station
  - Shelter in Rimlingen
- Saarlouis district
  - Regelbau 104d in Bous

War rulers

Saarland
- Merzig-Wadern district
  - Regelbau 51a at Oberleuken (at least 4 pieces)
  - Regelbau 51a near Orscholz
  - Regelbau 501 in Sinz (2 pieces, 1 museum bunker)
  - Regelbau 501 near Sinz (2 pieces)
  - Regelbau 501 near Tettingen (2 pieces)
  - Regelbau 502 at Oberleuken
  - Regelbau 506 in Besseringen
  - Regelbau 509c in Besseringen (2 pieces)
  - Standard building 509c (with courtyard covering) in Merzig
  - Regelbau 395 ("Heinrich") in Beckingen
  - Heinrich SK in Rimlingen (1 piece)
  - Double Heinrich SK in Rimlingen (1 piece, slightly damaged)
  - SK shelter in Rimlingen

Others

Various shelters and machine gun loop stands reinforced field-wise (Vf) on Orscholzriegel
Various visible remains of five-point cusp lines west of Aachen
Armored walls on the Aachener Schneeberg and on the Aachen- Visé railway line

Observation station at Aachen-Schleckheim

Five-point hump line at Aachen-Köpfchen

Bunker in the Iterbachtal near Walheim

Bunker in the Aachen forest near Entenpfuhl - Regelbau SK6 / a

Regimental command post near Aachen-Brand - Regelbau 117

Five-point hump line in the area of the Hotel Relais Königsberg

Bridge construction of the five-section hump line at the Dreilägerbach dam

Bunker for the water supply near Lammersdorf -Jägerhaus

Various visible remains of five-point hump lines between Lammersdorf and Monschau

Remains of a movable barrier near Lammersdorf

Two armored concrete shields at Hellenthal -Wahlerscheid

Bunker for water supply at Hellenthal-Wahlerscheid

Four- and five-point cusp lines running parallel between Hellenthal -Hollerath and Ormont

Rhineland-Palatinate

Westwall museums Wiltingen: MG Schartenstand and artillery observer
different cusp lines between Brandscheid and Eschfeld
intact group shelter near Roth / Our
B-Werk Katzenkopf near Irrel ( Westwall Museum Irrel )
A-Werk Gerstfeldhöhe in the Pirmasens district of Niedersimten ( Westwall Museum Pirmasens )
Westwall Museum Bad Bergzabern
Siegfried Line Museum "Villa Gartenlaube" in Konz
Three-story tower integrated into a building and discovered in 2014 during demolition work with two fighting stalls on the Kreuzberg near Zweibrücken .

Saarland

Cusp line near Winterbach in Saarland

Westwall bunker in leases
Westwall bunker Rentrisch
Halberg position with bunker WH 316
Five-point hump line near the B 41 between St. Wendel and Bliesen and parts of it in Hofeld-Mauschbach and Baltersweiler
Five-point hump line near the Harschberger Hof on the federal road 269 between St. Wendel and Winterbach
Bunker near Hofeld-Mauschbach

to bathe

Bunker standard building type 10 in Rastatt
Bunker standard construction type 32 in Dettenheim-Rußheim (supported by the association Bunkermuseum Dettenheim eV)
Bunker standard building type 11 "Emilie" in old people's home (privately managed, museum)

West air defense zone

Bunker at Vettweis-Ginnick
Type K bunker in Isweiler near Frauwüllesheim
Bunker at Nideggen- Schmidt
Position at Kirspenich
Position at Dahlem
Water bunker near Kommern
Pz bunker near Bouderath
heavy flak position in full expansion near Zingsheim

literature

Dieter Bettinger, Martin Büren: The West Wall. The history of the German fortifications to the west in the Third Reich. Vol. 1. The construction of the western wall 1936–1945, Vol. 2. The technical execution of the western wall. Biblio, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1458-6 .
Jörg Fuhrmeister: The West Wall: past and present. Motorbuch, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-613-02291-5 .
Dieter Robert Bettinger, Hans-Josef Hansen, Daniel Lois: The Westwall from Kleve to Basel. On the trail of German history. 2nd Edition. Nebel Verlag, Eggolsheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-89555-414-8 .
Manfred Groß: The Siegfried Line between the Lower Rhine and Schnee-Eifel. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7927-0644-X .
Doris Seck : Saarland war years. Volume 2: Westwall Company. Book publisher Saarbrücker Zeitung, Saarbrücken 1985, ISBN 3-922807-05-4 .

Web links and individual references

↑ demolished on August 10, 2011 by the state road construction office in the course of the B51 bypass

↑ Investigation of the ruin by Wijnands (VEWA eV) / Lang Dec. 2014, the building was wrongly mistaken for a 120d up until then.

^ Otterbach section , Westwall Museum Bad Bergzabern

↑ Westwall ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Local History Working Group Rentrisch eV @1@ 2

↑ Foerdergruppe Bunker WH 316 ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Der Regelbau 10 , Historischer Verein Rastatt eV
^ Museum bunker Emilie on Facebook. Retrieved April 17, 2017 .

[1] shed on August 10, 2011 by the state road construction office in the course of the B51 bypass

[2] Investigation of the ruin by Wijnands (VEWA eV) / Lang Dec. 2014, the building was wrongly mistaken for a 120d up until then.

[3] Otterbach section , Westwall Museum Bad Bergzabern