Bunker CS 10 Aywaille

This is bunker CS 10 from the Comblain-Sougné sector of the 1st line of defense for 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 bunkers were built in the early 1930s.

The bunker is located in on a PRIVATE LAND, an estate, in a forest plot on the Amblève river and a meadow. The estate and the bunker are NOT visitable! Only because I happened to run into the owner of the plot when I was searching for this bunker in the woods near his large estate and got in to a conversation with him, I was invited by him to his estate. He was surprised that I knew of the existence of the two bunkers on his property. He pointed them both out to me and told me how he used to play around them as a child.

This bunker is really beautifully camouflaged. The front is completely dressed with natural stone. This camouflage even extends into the purpose-built walls with gate next to the bunker, so that from the other side of the Amblève where the main road also runs, it looks like a normal barn made of natural stone and therefore fits perfectly into this environment. No further attention was paid to the rear to save money. Another example of beautifully executed camouflage is bunker MN12 at Aubel.

The bunker is equipped with one gun opening for a machine gun. It is located on the south side facing the Ambléve and the road. The bunker is no longer accessible, the door opening has been bricked up. The walls and ceiling are 1.3 meters thick on all sides and of reinforced concrete. They could withstand shelling with 150mm shells.

The metal shutters in front of the gun opening were removed after the war. These were sold as scrap metal when the bunkers had lost their strategic value for the defense of Belgium.

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Source

• Text: Ed Lewandowski
• Photos: Ed Lewandowski