Bunker NV 11 Berneau

This is bunker NV 11 from sector Neufchâteau-Visé from the 1st line of la Position Fortifiée de Liège (PFL) and belongs to fort Neufchâteau. It is the 11th 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 the middle of a meadow and is almost completely overgrown with brambles and nettles making it difficult to find.

The bunker still has both original doors. The barred gate as entrance and the louvre door as inner door. These doors were open in order to discharge fumes released during the firing of the machine gun. The original shelf supports and hooks are also still present.

The plot was surrounded by barbed wire stretched between the concrete posts. Remnants of this can still be seen among the vegetation. It was all thrown together in a large pile in front of the entrance to the bunker.

As with most bunkers, the steel shutters and 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 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