Bunker EB 1 Evegnée

This is bunker EB 1 at an open field at the village of Evegnée and is part of a farm.

Bunker EB 1 is part of the sector Evegnée-Barchon (EB) of the 2nd line of defense for de city of Liège, la Position Fortifiée de Liège (PFL 2) and belongs to the forts of Evegnée and Barchon.

This is the last bunker of this sector that still exists. The other 7 bunkers were demolished when motorway E42 was constructed (there is a possibility that bunker EB 2-2 still exists). The bunker would have a 47 mm anti-tank cannon and a machingun.

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