Bunker BV 17-2 Juslenville

This is Bunker BV 17-2 from de sector Becco-Vesdre (BV) of the 1st line of defense for de city of Liège, la Position Fortifiée de Liège (PFL 1).

The bunker is within 100 m. distance with bunker BV 17-1. The bunkers of sector BV are part of the nearbij fort Tancrémont.

The bunker is located at a backyard of a private plot. The bunker is used by two sheep as night shelter. The gunopening can not be seen due to the groundwall to allow the sheep to practise their climbing skills. The iron door is missing. All the iron on the bunkers (shutters and doors) were sold as scrap after the war when the bunkers were no longer in use for de defense of Belgium.

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. Hence the that most bunkers are now on private plots.

(With permission ! of the owner of the plot, who was by chance was outside feeding the sheep, I was allowed to enter the plot and take some photographs at the plot itself. But only wiht great precaution for the sheep.)

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Source

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