Bunker VM 35 Manaihant

In een weiland, Manaihant

Belgium Liège Manaihant

Bunker VM 35 is located in the Vesdre-Manaihant sector of the 1st Defense Line of La Position Fortifiée de Liège, PFL 1.

The bunker has been almost completely overgrown over the ages. Only a small part of the bunker's concrete is still visible. Due to the abundant bushes, nettles and blackberry bushes, making height differences in the landscape not visible, the bunker is not approachable. Only a photo can be taken from a distance.

For this reason, only the general information about the PLF's bunkers can be given.

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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