Bunker CS 7 Fraiture

Rue de Fraiture, 4140 Fraiture

Belgium Liège Fraiture

This is bunker CS 7 from the Comblain-Sougné sector of the 1st line of defense of the city of Liège, la Position Fortifiée de Liège 1 (PFL 1).

This was the last sector of the PFL 1. This sector ran west into sector Sougné-Becco (SB). Sector CS consisted of 31 bunkers to the south and west of the once planned but never built Fort de Sougné-Remouchamps.

The bunker is located in the middle of a meadow. It a smaller bunker with one gun opening for a machine gun. Over the years, the bunker has been partially covered by soil so the entrance is below ground level. A lookout has been placed on the bunker by the landowner.

Around the bunker, the concrete pilasters to which the barbed wire was attached are still in tact, but they all fell down through the years (see photo 2). Also still present is one of the 4 plot posts used to demarcate the military plot. Post DN-4 which stands for Defense National, post 4.

Photo 4 shows the lookout the bunker had from its firing direction. A perfect view of the surrounding area.

The walls and ceiling of the bunkers from the PFL line are 1.3 meters thick of reinforced concrete. They could withstand shelling with 150mm shells.

When the bunkers lost their strategic value for the defense of Belgium after the war, the metal of the hatches and doors was sold as scrap metal. Also, most of the plots on which they stood were sold, so many bunkers are now on private plots.

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