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Bunker CTF 14 Wégimont

This is bunker CTF 14.

The bunker is located within the sector Fléron-Evegnée of the second line of defense for the city of Liège, la Position Fortifiée de Liège 2, PFL 2.

CTF stands for 'Centraux téléphoniques' which can be translated as a bunker for telephone exchange. The bunker was not intended as a bunker in de line of defense or shelter. Within the PFL area there were 34 CTF-bunkers. They provided communication between the forts and the bunkers.

typical for this kind of bunkers is that they do not have gunopenings. On first sight one might think dat the opening next to the door was for a cannon or machinegun. But this is an escape hatch. At the backside this bunker had a gunopening, Some of the CTF's would have one. Most not. The bunker is reused and had a new door- and windowframe. CTF 14 has the rebrick camouflage patern so it would look like the surrounding houses in the area. It was built to look like a house.

Telephone lines were burried as deep as 2 meters in between bunkers and the forts. Outside the forts the lines were burried even as deep as 6 meters. Out of precaution for the expected shelling of the forts with heavy artillary. At this depht the lines would be less vurnerable for the shells.

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Source

  • Text: Ed Lewandowski
  • Photos: Ed Lewandowski