Hospital Bunker
At the drive up at the farm, there forms at the right side a hospital bunker. The pillbox stood overground, the walls were all more than 1m wide! In contrast of the other bunkers are here no elephant plates been used, instead they used heavy iron brays for the roof. On the top of the pillbox there was 1m lay ground for camouflage and relief of the boms,... The bunker was built at night because it would be less notable! The farm buildings of now stands +/- 60m further of the original farm. This bunker was clearred in the summer of 1961, before there were human rests of witch became there had been picked up then still presently by the municipality service.
Dimensions of the pillbox:
| Wide: | 8 m |
| Length: | 42 m |
| Hight: | +/- 3 m + low ground |
| Muur dikte: | 1 m |
| Dimension window opening: | +/- 40 op 40 cm |
| Number of chambers + dimension: | 6 rooms, 7m op 7m, with each a window opening + air breach |
Groundplan of the pillbox:
In 1961, was the pillbox clearred entirely where remains there still now 1/3 of the scrap pieces. The scrap pieces were picked up for building roads, and fundation for houses.
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