Maginot Line Bunkers #10 Batterie Strengwald

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Strengwald Batterie is a two gun battery that was equipped with 240mm guns with a range of 17-18km, aimed at the Rhine bridges in the Basel region. The battery is located to the left of casemate #109 and is shown as three black triangles. It has five shelters and a 40cm railway track to feed the guns from the ammunition shelters


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Northern Gun Emplacement, now used as a sort of lecture room.

Inside the North Gun stores shelter

Ammunition store

Door to Ammunition store

Inside ammunition store

Inside South Gun stores shelter

South Gun emplacement, with ready ammunition shelter on right. Someone has put a roof on.

Left side ready ammunition store

40cm railway track to the gun emplacement

40cm railway track from the ammunition store to the guns, there was a turntable to get the wagons with the shells into the gun emplacement

Ventilation shaft to the gunners shelter

Gunners shelter

Armoured door to the gunners shelter

Inside the gunners shelter, ducting for comms on the left floor. Seating brackets along the wall, they still swing out.

MG position at the door

Gunners shelter

 

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Image of one of the 240 mm guns, long gone now.