M.K.B. Schelde/Stp Tobruk
Stp Flugplatz
Situation on April 11&22 2005, updated March 1 2008
M.K.B. Schelde/Stp Tobruk
Nothing much is left here: This was the
place were 4xS412 type of bunkeres were build. These were the same
type as the 'Grösser Kurfurst' bunkers near Cap Griz Nez in France.
They were never installed with guns as the Germans didn't have the time
to make them operational. These bunkers and others have all disappeared
but some remnants are left over. The battery is locate near 't Zwin,
a nature reservate.
The nature reservate isn't freely accessible
but can be visited by paying a entrance fee.
Google Earth Overlay with the location of of the S.412 and other bunkers. Click on this image and use it as a 'kmz' file directly in Google Earth.
The 4xS.412 bunkers should have been equiped
with 4X28cm S.K.C/34 guns but this never happened due to the liberation
of this area in sepbember 1944.
Bunkers
4x S.412
R622
3xR656
and planned: S446, 4xS.448a, R657, R658, R611, 3xR622, R638, 4xR656
The concrete roads are mostly still in there.
Some
remains.
Left: a special type of Tobruk.
Right: some bunker remains near the statue.
Other views of the Tobruk.
Gun emplacement.
Some concrete tracks close to the gun emplacement.
Some ruins of the Stp Flugplatz site.
A mast in the dunes, possibly standing on a bunker beneath the sand.
Partially covered by dunesand, the complete bunker, a R612, which is still visible and belonging to Stp Flugplatz.
Some direct hits on this one. Drawing of a R612 by (c)Rudi Rolf (www.rudirolf.name)
Original
fence ?
Just at the border with The Netherlands
and also the border of 't Zwin an emplacement for a gun.
Not clear which one.
Stp Flugplatz
This part was equiped with a R612(still
exists), 6xVf2a, 2xFf2a(S) and 2xVf7a. I believe there is at least
one Vf2a left in the dunes.
Stp Flugplatz is situated north of the
M.K.B Schelde or Stp Tobruk battery.
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Comparison picture, now and then.
Emplacement for 7.5cm fieldgun. Here's
the border between Belgium-Holland. The other side is Cadzand.
Traces of old defence structures(?) at the gun emplacement position.
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Some remains of brick trenches still visible in the dunes, this is still Stp Flugplatz.
Remains at Stp Tobruk.
Same
location as above.
Don't
know what this was.
Probably one of the four places where the S412 were located.
Bunker which was part of the Hollandstellung during WWI but maybe also used during WWII.
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Inside the bunker there are some fading
drawings. I've made some color enhanced pictures of it.
Some text and what appears to be a Spanish
soldier from around 1500.