Main artillery: Six 15,5 cm K.416(f)
Ready for battle: September 1942
This battery was similar in weapons and artillery to HKB 5./981 Floröy.
Of the six gunpositions, only four remains, due to a new road in the area.
A tunnel, going from gunposition five in the north of the site, is coming out in the battery's rear area (south).
The tunnel was not concreted and not finished. One can still see remains of wood in the tunnel,
used when blasting forward in the rock. Two small halls in the tunnel, layed with bricks,
contained ammunition for some of the cannons, while the other cannons had their
own ammunition storage nearby, either in a bunker or in a room blasted into the rock
behind the guns. The command bunker was a light construction, and is situated in the hills
above the battery. Behind this bunker, three Flak positions (4 cm Flak), belonging to
Flak Zug Eltevik (M) from the Navy, was situated. A large minefield with a total of 2456 mines
was surrounding the battery, and during the clearance after the war, a German Feldwebel
lost his life due to an accident with the mines. The battery was closed down after the war, and the
guns sold as scrap. Still today parts of the gun barrels are left in the positions.
The site is very accessible, a road goes straight through it, and is in good condition, apart
from the before mentioned gun position, and a few of the bunkers that are tried closed
with concrete and bricks. The part of the tunnel that comes out in the battery's rear area,
is partly filled with water, but with high boots it is possible getting in there, or you can enter
from the other side. It is not attacked by heavy under- and overgrowth, so everything
is clearly visible. The only inhabitants in the battery now, are some sheeps and goats seeking
shelter from the weather in the bunkers.
The ammunition rooms inside the tunnel
Remains of building work inside the tunnel
Position for 15,5 cm. K.416(f). Note the barrel.
Another gunposition
Another gunposition. Note rooms in the rock behind the emplacement
Close up of the remains of a barrel
Entrance to a bunker
The control bunker
The control bunker. What a view they had...
Position five. From here there is an entrance to the tunnel
Remains of gunposition four. A new road is laid over it
