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Landfront Flushing: A cable-lock system in the part of Nieuw Abeele.
Photo 3: The low entrance.
Photo 4: The cable entry.
Photo 5: This cable entry can also be seen in the cable terminal, on the wall above a print of a K.E.V. (Cable and difference cabinet).
There is also a second cable connection on the Abeelseweg. This is located on private property and is not accessible to the public.

A piece of the description on the information board at the beginning of the Bunkerpad at the Stromenweg in Middelburg, where this cable shackle in the Vlissingen part of Stp. Krimhild hears.

Abeele's defense
The backbone of the land front was formed by machine gun casemates; a formidable weapon that entered the First World War. Its effectiveness meant that the Germans also frequently used the machine gun in the Atlantic Wall. Abeele formed an important position a short distance from the Walcheren Canal. At the end of 1942, bunkers and combat casemates were built on Nieuwe Vlissingseweg, Abeelseweg and along the Vlissingse watercourse. It concerned a command bunker, four casemates for machine gun, a gun bunker and a garage bunker for a piece of anti-tank gun. The combat bunkers were all on the flat farmland and were camouflaged with ground slopes. This gave them the appearance of a mound. The command bunker and the garage bunker at the Piramidehoeve were camouflaged as a house to allow them to blend in with the nearby buildings. The bunkers where you are now are machine gun casemates of the type 630. The official name is "Schartenstand für MG". The outer walls and roof of the bunkers are made of two meters thick reinforced concrete, the side wall on the side of the canal was made heavier to three meters. These were bombproof structures that each devoured more than 700m3 of concrete. The machine gun was placed behind an enormously heavy and expensive panster shield weighing twenty tons. The ratio between the cost of the machine gun and the construction costs for the bunker setup seems to be quite out of balance with this.

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Source

• Text: Mia van den Berg / Stichting Bunkerbehoud
• Photos: Mia van den Berg