Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Batterie d'artillerie Wesel Flakberg
Les Mathes, Charente-Maritime, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La batterie avec tous ses ouvrages (cad. B 4804 à 4813) : inscription par arrêté du 24 juillet 2002
- Protection dates
- 2002/07/24 : inscrit MH
- Type
- batterie d'artillerie
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 20e siècle
- Dates
- 1942
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Lieu-dit
- le Canton de la Bonne Anse
- Commune
- Les Mathes
- Département
- Charente-Maritime
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.70226, -1.21826
- Mérimée reference
- PA17000045
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1769 map "134 Ile d'Oleron." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Ancienne base antiaérienne aménagée par les allemands lors de la construction du Mur de l'Atlantique. Elle se composait de six pièces de 75 mm M33f et reçut plus de 200 tonnes de bombes. Cette batterie ne possédait que des plates-formes en bois camouflées de branchages.
English translation
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History
Former anti-aircraft base set up by the Germans during the construction of the Atlantic Wall. It consisted of six 75 mm M33f guns and received more than 200 tonnes of bombs. This battery had only wooden platforms camouflaged with branches.
Nearby in the register
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- Phare de la Coubrephareunder 1 mi
- Batterie Muschelbatterie d'artillerie2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.