Schützenmulde

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A Schützenmulde (also Schützenkuhle ) is the smallest military earth fortification or position for a soldier. The shallow depression in the ground, roughly the size of the soldier who is supposed to find protection in it, can be quickly excavated with just a folding spade and is mostly temporary. With the excavation, a low earth wall is raised around the hollow, mainly in the enemy direction. The soldier is only protected from sight and shallow fire from handguns or fragmentation while lying in the firing point. Especially in wet and cold weather it is necessary to pad the surface.

Gun hollows are dug out when the time, the situation or the ground does not allow for foxholes or even more extensive protective structures to be created. In 1963, the then printed edition of Der Reibert said, “Schützenloch für Liegende Schützen (Schützenmulde)”.

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  1. ↑ The friction . Mittler & Sohn, Frankfurt a. Main 1963. p. 408.