Bunker NV 9 Berneau

This is bunker NV 9 from sector Neufchâteau-Visé from the 1st line of la Position Fortifiée de Liège (PFL) and belongs to fort Neufchâteau. It is the 9th bunker from this sector.

It is one of the fort's 17 defense bunkers. The other two are observation bunkers and therefore equipped with a turret.

The bunker is located in a meadow and is almost completely overgrown with blackberry bushes and nettles. Bunker NV 9 is one of two bunkers in this sector that has two gun openings. The other is bunker NV 19. The plot still has the original concrete fence posts where the steel entrance gate used to be (photo 4). The plot was surrounded by barbed wire stretched between the concrete posts.

As with most bunkers, the steel hatches, doors and the entrance gate have been removed. When the bunkers lost their strategic value to the Belgian army after the war, they were sold as scrap metal.

The walls of the bunkers from the PFL line were 1.3 meters thick, and of reinforced concrete. They could withstand shelling with 150 mm shells. They were equipped with two steel doors. Only a few bunkers were connected to the power grid. Most had to be lit with storm lamps.

The bunkers were built in the early 1930s.

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Source

• Text: Ed Lewandowski
• Photos: Ed Lewandowski
• La Position Fortifiée de Liège, Coenen & Vernier.