Peel-Raamstelling - S-Casemate nr. 5

Casemate Type S. These are most commonly built casemates in Limburg. They were simple, light and cheap combat emplacements with three embrasures. They were located between 200 and 400 meters apart. Because of the protruding masking hooks, they were also called "porcupine" or "spider head." There was only one light machine gun with which to fire frontally at the enemy and sideways to protect other casemates. Soldiers could fire the machine gun from the inside over a 190-degree field of fire, but they were not very safe behind 80 cm of concrete and large embrasures. Meijel stories reveal that the concrete was not allowed to be made with the acidic Peel water and that the nails of the formwork were not allowed to be reused. The casemates were filled with sand and bricked up by order of the Germans.

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Source

• Text: Stichting Dorpsoverleg Meijel
• Photos: Joost Verheijden