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The Heavy Andholm Battery.
The Battery is
composed of one 24 cm gun.
The Battery is very much like the battery in Rugbjerg Plantage, except the
platform is missing. There is only a deep hole in
the ground. This earlier this lead to the mistake that the battery was never finished.
However this is not true.
The battery was an enbedded gun, the so
called B-Geschütze. The railway lead direct to the hole,and a crane now could lift
the gun
from the wagon to the steel platform.
When the gun was mounted, the train left
again but could later return and remove the gun.
This mounting was used at guns of calibres 21 – 38 cm. But it took to long
time if the front was
moving. For a defence line the system was sufficient.
B-geschütze or Bettungs-geschütze was used by Germany, when they didn’t
have real rail way guns. The first railway guns
(E-geschütze E=Eisenbahn)
was used by Germany from 1916.
The Construction was not demolished like so many others.
It was situated on private property at the
owner would not allow it to be destroyed, because he
wanted it to remain as a memory of the time.
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B-geschütze
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Mounting B-geschütze |
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