On the right the groundplan of the room just under the emplacement.
Atlantic wall in the Netherlands
German fortifications close to Eindhoven.
Close to Eindhoven two locations are known.
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AA-battery at Vooraard (Veldhoven)
At this location three emplacements can be found. We only visited two of the emplacements.
(C.N.J Neisingh, thank you for the drawings and the information about the location.)
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On the right the groundplan of the room just under the emplacement. |
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In the summer of 1944, the Germans moved a installation to listen to the allied radio from Noordwijk-hout to Geenhoven. Geenhoven is a very small village north of Valkenswaard. Valkenswaard is a village about 3km south of Eindhoven.
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this bomb-free area are 3 meters thick.At the outside of the walls a wall
of bricks was placed. In the wall of bricks some fake-windows were made.
You can't see this is a bunker before you are inside. The part with the
smaller walls contains a living-room. On the upper floor bedrooms were
made for the crew.
On the drawing above a view on the house from the south.
This is a picture of the Farm-house. The highest roof covers the bunker. The part on the left containes a livingroom (room 3 on the drawing). on the upper floor there are sleeping rooms The numbers on the drawing:
On the pictue above the holes in the wall, for the cables.
What can you see through the window? Yep, it is concrete ! The walls were covered with bricks to let it look like this was a real farmhouse. When the allied found out that this building was a radio-station their forces were so close that they dicided not to do an air-attack. |
The picture below is taken in the room with the fresh-air installation.
The drawing below is a ground-plan of the building.
View through the rooms in the strong concrete part of the bunker. |
