Bunker Mi1 Micheroux

Bunker Mi 1 is one of 3 bunkers of sector Micheroux (Mi). Sector Mi is part of de 2nd line of defense for the city of Liège (PFL 2, la Position Fortifiée de Liège). This line consists out of 62 bunkers.

These 3 bunkers hold an advanced position in the line in between the nearby fort of Evegnée and fort Fléron. La Position Avancée Micheroux.

To the north-easternside the sector is limited bij the sector Fléron-Evegnée (FE) holding 8 bunkers. To the west,there is another advanced position, sector Magnée (Ma) which holds 4 bunkers, and the sector Chaudfontaine-Fléron (CF) with 12 bunkers.

Bunker Mi 1 is located at the border of a piece of forest and a grassland. It is one of the larger type of bunkers. and was equipped with a 47 mm canon en a machine gun.

The walls and ceiling of the bunkers from the PFL were standard 1.30 m. thick and of reinforced concrete. They had to be able to withstand shells of 150 mm. To illustrate, the caliber of shells a Königstiger could fire was caliber 88 mm. Thus, only heavier caliber field guns could penetrate the concrete and potentially destroy the bunker.

The bunkers were built in the 1930s.

After the war, when the bunkers lost their strategic value for the Belgian army, the plots of land on which they stood were sold. All the metal of the hatches and doors was sold as scrap metal. Hence the that most bunkers are now on private plots.

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Source

• Text: Ed Lewandowski
• Photos: Ed Lewandowski
• La Position Fortiée de Liège, Coenen & Vernier