Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel was a French fort used by the Germans as an observatory (PDT) looking over the town of Cherbourg. As you will see many bunkers are blown up and it is very overgrown with brambles, in 2007.
Cherbourg.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
1 x FCP Leitstand.
2 x Flak.
3 x Vf.
1 x Barracks.
1 x Vf WC.
French fortress remains.
Very Vf WC.
2cm Flak 30 that may have been up here.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Blue circle: entrance.
Green circle: French fort.
Red Square: French building.
Blue square: fire control post (PDT).
Blue arrows: route in.
Red arrow: access to French fort.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
The entrance to the site.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Kabelschaltstelle - Cable switch room.
Plan.
Cabling.
Armoured German cable.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
French, probably the original batterie offices.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand -control room or control post, probably controlled the firing of many guns in the area around the harbour.
That I know, this is the only Schnabelstand type in the Lower Normandy
area. For Schnabelstand's see (Beaks & Beaches, Ben Muller & others).
I suppose nobody told Steven Spielberg when he made "Saving Private Ryan".
Plan from Morine Etienne.
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Leitstand -control room
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand -control room
Looking into the observation space.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand -control room
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand -control room
To the right a set of steel steps to get onto the roof.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand -control room.
View from the roof.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand -control room.
The rear.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand -control room.
Plan of the upper floor level.
Observation - computing room - Officer of the watch, room.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand -control room.
The rear.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand -control room.
There are two windows that would have had steel shutters on to allow natural light into the bunkers office rooms on the upper floor.
Plan.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand -control room.
View looking in.
Plan.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand -control room.
Steel door possibly a 434P1 type.
Plan.
434P1 type.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand -control room.
Plan.
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Leitstand - control room.
Shower room.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand - control room.
details
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand - control room.
Plan.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand - control room.
Officers watch room.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand - control room.
Officers watch room.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand - control room.
Computing room.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand - control room.
Observation.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand - control room.
Observation.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand - control room.
Observation from outside.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand - control room.
Observation the view.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Leitstand -control room.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
French military boundary marker.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
French forts of Cherbourg.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Very damaged area.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Very damaged area.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
DANGER everywhere up here.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Protected building.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Protected building.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Looking over the wall.
Probably a wooden hut placed inside.
Wooden building.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
this could have been the French batterie offices.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
French batterie offices.
Inside.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
French batterie offices.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
It looks like a bomb crater.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel
Screw picket for barbed wire.
Screw pickets.
Wn243 Le Lande St Gabriel