Just south of the coastal battery Malo-Terminus lies Widerstandsnest Darmstadt. A Regelbau 219 lies on the beach and has been brilliantly renovated by an artist.
This small resistance point had one Wellblech shelter, a small personnel shelter, and one Regelbau type 219 bunker.
AOK 15, KVA B, KV.Gr. Dünkirchen
The widerstandsnest was under control of AOK 15 – Armee Ober Kommando 15 (Eng. Army High Command 15) and was part of section KVA B – Küstenverteidigungsabschnitt B (Eng. Coastal Defense Section B), Küstenverteidigungsgruppe Dünkirchen (Eng. Coastal defense group Dunkirk).
AOK 15 commanded coastal defense from the island Walcheren in the Netherlands all the way south until the mouth of the Seine in France.
Coastal Defense Sector B in France stretches from the border with Belgium, with the former French base at Anna, along the coast to the fortress of Dunkirk and its important port. West of the port city, the coastal defense sector continues past the Vauban fortress of Gravelines to the gates of Calais with the Waldam Battery.
Regelbau 219 and Doppelschartentand
This bunker with type number R 219 was a bunker with a double notch for enfilade fire along the beach with two embrasures in a 60 degrees angle. There were two types of these bunkers, the R 219 and the Doppelschartentand,. The R 219 had an combat compartment facing the opposite side – 180 degrees opposing openings,. The Doppelschartentand type was used in the Netherlands and had a tobruk, machine gun stand, integrated in the bunker and had a combat compartment under the same angle as its embrasures, 60 degrees.
In total 15 of these combined bunker types were under AOK 15 control.
The bunker in our photos, on Leffrinckoucke’s beach, is a Regelbau 219 type with opposite gun openings for flanking fire.
Visit
walk from the boulevard towards the north and you see both W.N. Darmstadt, the Regelbau 219, and the M.K.B. Malo-Terminus within a few minutes.
