Bunker BV 20-2 Pepinster

This is Bunker BV 20-2 at the road to Pepinster.

Bunker BV 20-2 is part of the sector Becco-Vesdre (BV) of the 1st line of defense for de city of Liège, la Position Fortifiée de Liège (PFL 1) and belongs to fort Tancrémont.

Becaus of heavy overgrowth wit ivy the bunker was not easy fot find and perfectly camouflaged.. Because of its square shape I eventialy found it.

When after the war the bunker were no longer in use for the defence of Belgium, the iron door and shutters were sold as scrap. The entrance of the bunker is 3 m. below ground level.

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