{"id":638,"date":"2023-06-01T04:13:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T04:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xn--hrtgenwaldmarsch-jzb.com\/?p=638"},"modified":"2024-08-30T07:35:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T07:35:49","slug":"bunker-im-waldgebiet-buhlert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xn--hrtgenwaldmarsch-jzb.com\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"Bunker im Waldgebiet Buhlert | Bunker in the Buhlert forest area"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Die Bunker im \u201eBuhlert\u201c z\u00e4hlen zu den wenigen noch ann\u00e4hernd vollst\u00e4ndig erhaltenen Westwallbunkern. Sie wurden im Zuge der zweiten Ausbauphase des Westwalls 1938 errichtet. Anfang Februar 1945 besetzten aus Westen zur\u00fcckweichende deutsche Einheiten der 272. Volks-Grenadier-Division kurzfristig diese Anlagen. Am 5. Februar erfolgte die Einnahme durch amerikanische Soldaten der 78. US-Infanterie-Division auf ihrem Vormarsch nach Schmidt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bei den erhaltenen Bunkern im Buhlert handelt es sich um zwei Gruppenunterst\u00e4nde und einen Doppelgruppenunterstand, einen Maschinengewehrbunker und einen Wasserbunker. Letztgenannter liegt 1,2 km \u00f6stlich der anderen an der Quelle des Fringsklafterbaches. Der Doppelgruppenunterstand mit der noch lesbaren Nr. 139\/40 besteht aus sechs R\u00e4umen, von denen die beiden gr\u00f6\u00dferen als Bereitschaftsr\u00e4ume f\u00fcr 27 Mann ausgelegt waren. Zur Talseite ist im Westen ein \u201eKampfraum\u201c mit MG- und Gewehrscharte angeh\u00e4ngt. Die beiden Gruppenunterst\u00e4nde Nr. 131 und 132 verf\u00fcgen nur \u00fcber jeweils einen Bereitschaftsraum, waren aber ansonsten \u00e4hnlich konzipiert. Der etwas h\u00f6her am Hang gelegene Maschinengewehrbunker Nr. 135 hebt sich infolge seiner geringen Gr\u00f6\u00dfe nur wenig im Gel\u00e4nde ab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Die Informationen zu den Bunkern im Buhlert stammen von <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/archaeoregion-nordeifel.lvr.de\/de\/themen\/die_bunker_im_waldgebiet__buhlert__bei_simmerath\/die_bunker_im_waldgebiet__buhlert__bei_simmerath_1.html\"><em>https:\/\/archaeoregion-nordeifel.lvr.de\/de\/themen\/die_bunker_im_waldgebiet__buhlert__bei_simmerath\/die_bunker_im_waldgebiet__buhlert__bei_simmerath_1.html<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bunkers in the \u2018Buhlert\u2019 are among the few Westwall bunkers that are still almost completely preserved. They were built in the course of the second expansion phase of the Siegfried Line in 1938. At the beginning of February 1945, retreating German units of the 272nd Volks-Grenadier-Division briefly occupied these facilities. On 5 February, they were captured by American soldiers of the 78th US Infantry Division on their advance to Schmidt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The surviving bunkers in Buhlert are two group shelters and a double group shelter, a machine gun bunker and a water bunker. The latter is located 1.2 kilometres east of the others at the source of the Fringsklafterbach stream. The double group shelter with the still legible number 139\/40 consists of six rooms, of which the two larger ones were designed as ready rooms for 27 men. A \u2018fighting room\u2019 with a machine gun and rifle embrasure is attached to the west side of the valley. The two group shelters Nos. 131 and 132 each had only one ready room, but were otherwise similarly designed. Due to its small size, the machine gun bunker no. 135, which is located slightly higher up on the slope, stands out only slightly in the terrain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die Bunker im \u201eBuhlert\u201c z\u00e4hlen zu den wenigen noch ann\u00e4hernd vollst\u00e4ndig erhaltenen Westwallbunkern. Sie wurden im Zuge der zweiten Ausbauphase des Westwalls 1938 errichtet. 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