Bunker FE 6 Retinne

This is bunker FE 6 at Retinne.

The bunker is part of sector Fléron-Evegnée (FE) from de 2nd line of defense for the city of Liège. La Position Fortifiée de Liège 2, PFL 2. The bunker is at 900 m form fort Evegnée.

The bunker is located in a field and is overgrown with srcubs. Only the doorway is well visiable. And the bunker can be visited. See the gunopening (and to the left the granade launcher fot handgranades) inside for defence when the outher door was forced and the men were at close combat and had to defend their lives. (In general all bunkers in these lines were equipped with tow doors.)

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 Fortifiée de Liège, Coenen & Vernier