The battery’s B1 gun emplacement is located close to the road. This bunker, too, was designed for a large-caliber 406mm naval gun with a range of 56 kilometers.
Like the B2, this is also a museum, Hel Museum. We didn’t visit; the gate was open, but it was closed when we visited. Although we can’t say much about the condition of the gun emplacement, we wanted to bring it to your attention.
The following text comes from the Hel Museum;
The Hel Museum is an ethnographic and natural history museum. It occupies the area inside and around the B1 “Anton” 406 mm gun emplacement in the former German Schleswig-Holstein complex, built in 1941. The entire facility (like the other facilities in the Hel Museum Complex) is a Class 0 military monument, meaning it is among the most valuable historical monuments of world importance. After the end of World War II, the facility passed into Polish hands, and from 1965 until 2010, it housed the Hel Communications Hub, subordinate to the 9th Coastal Defense Flotilla of the Polish Navy.
Visit
We can’t provide much information for visitors; you can park your car right outside. Check the museum’s website for more information. And please let us know if you’ve been there and we can share more information for other readers.
For the other two gun emplacements you can follow the links below:
Gun emplacement 2 (with museum)
And the last one, Gun emplacement 3
And don’t forget to visit the fire control tower.
Gun emplacements location on the Schleswig-Holstein battery, gun emplacement B3 occupied by a paintball club on top, B2 with the gun battery museum in the middle and B1 with the Hel Museum at the bottom.
