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Day 2 of 14 and a visit to Ouvrage Rohrbach another Maginot line bunker system, a lot of these places are now in private hands and offer visits,
if you can arrange an English visit it ends up as a one on one private guided tour, The guy who showed us round was epic,
You want the light off - no problem
You want to crawl down the drainage tunnel - no problem
You want to climb up in to the turret - help yourself
Built in 1938 and one of the last set of Maginot line bunker systems built, it has 3 main combat blocks the lift still works in Block 1 and all the
diesel engine generators work as well.
Picture time.
Combat block 1
Top of the 30m lift shaft - I took the stairs all 97ft down.
Power plant room
Looking back towards Block 1 on our way to Block 2
It`s a bloody long walk between Block 1 and 2 (Block 3 is out of bounds)
The drainage and emergency exit tunnel
Inside the artillery turret (It all works)
Right bunker fans that will do for this one, thanks for looking all comments are most welcome.
There is a metric bucket load more pictures on my FlickR page so head on over to -
Ouvrage Rohrbach
Cheers Newage
Day 2 of 14 and a visit to Ouvrage Rohrbach another Maginot line bunker system, a lot of these places are now in private hands and offer visits,
if you can arrange an English visit it ends up as a one on one private guided tour, The guy who showed us round was epic,
You want the light off - no problem
You want to crawl down the drainage tunnel - no problem
You want to climb up in to the turret - help yourself
Built in 1938 and one of the last set of Maginot line bunker systems built, it has 3 main combat blocks the lift still works in Block 1 and all the
diesel engine generators work as well.
Picture time.
Combat block 1
Top of the 30m lift shaft - I took the stairs all 97ft down.
Power plant room
Looking back towards Block 1 on our way to Block 2
It`s a bloody long walk between Block 1 and 2 (Block 3 is out of bounds)
The drainage and emergency exit tunnel
Inside the artillery turret (It all works)
Right bunker fans that will do for this one, thanks for looking all comments are most welcome.
There is a metric bucket load more pictures on my FlickR page so head on over to -
Ouvrage Rohrbach
Cheers Newage
