Bunker NV 10 Berneau

This is bunker NV 10 from sector Neufchâteau-Visé from the 1st line of la Position Fortifiée de Liège (PFL) and belongs to fort Neufchâteau. It is the 10th 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 to a meadow in the forestborder and is almost completely overgrown with blackberrybushes and nettles, making it difficult to find. The bunker appears to have wardamage. At the artillery opening, the bunker appears to have taken a direct hit, and the walled entrance and entrance to the bunker have dozens of bullet holes. The bunker still has its original louvered door as its interior door. The exterior door, a barred gate, is gone.

The plot was surrounded by barbed wire stretched between the concrete posts. Remnants of this can still be seen among the vegetation.

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

The walls of the bunkers from the PFL line are 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