Ijmuiden clusterbunkers ( Atlantic Wall )

Atlantic Wall coastal defense Ijmuiden

At strategic positions 'fortresses' were erected: clusters of bunkers, command posts and artillery, sometimes linked by narrow underground tunnels. Fortresses were designed to be able to hold out against an enemy siege for months without help. All civilian houses and infrastructure that stood in the way were cleared, and garrisons were under explicit orders to fight to the last man.
One of these sites was IJmuiden.
The cluster of bunkers that are today climbed by boulderers formed only a small, if vital, part of Fortress IJmuiden. Together, they formed Coastal Battery Heerenduin. The most impressive of Heerenduin's bunkers, now dubbed Amsterdoomed, was the battery's command post. Over 2300 metric meters of concrete were used to build it, and it housed communications and distance measuring equipment. Only the top two rooms are accessible, the much larger lower level is now buried by sand. The other four large bunkers, with their imposing roofs, are all of the same design. Their 2 meter-thick walls and roof shielded large 17-centimeter guns with a 20 kilometer reach. Other fortifications at this site were ammunition storages, barracks and light artillery pivots.

The bunkers of IJmuiden are special not just because they make excellent bouldering objects with great views. Most Atlantikwall bunkers have been razed, closed to the public or are overgrown. Others are in poor shape or badly soiled. But many hundreds still exist, in Holland primarily in Hoek van Holland, an important fortress that protected the vital port of Rotterdam and in Den Haag, where over 3000 houses were demolished to make way for Festung Scheveningen. The remaining bunkers there, in Den Helder, Hoek van Holland, in Zeeland and in other locations, remain, to our best knowledge, to be climbed.

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[797raptor]

ik ga hier bijna elke weekend naar toe ;p ik woon in ijmuiden

[bosb33r]

@797raptor Owh dan woon je vlak bij me in de buurt B'wijk ;0) ja ze blijven mooi om te zien!!

[797raptor]

@bosb33r wel jammer dat ze zommige bunkers hebben dichtgemaakt :(

[bosb33r]

@bsoluut 797raptor, die van wijk aan zee zijn ook mooi om te zien, wel is geweest bij die bunkers?

[geertwildersful]

wat bezielt die mongolen graffiti spuiters?

[Mordrenze]

my respect to them who died during the WWII

[797raptor]

@bosb33r volgens mij wel maar weet het niet zeker

[bosb33r]

H@ha Victor ;0) stelletje spel brekers!

[Victor20376]

@bosb33r Tussen 1946 & '50 gingen wij... met de meisjes "spelen" in zulke bunkers in Heist-aan-Zee. (Vlaanderen)

Helaas is men nà het seizoen '50 die bunkers begonnen dynamiteren... dit onder druk van de Katholieke kerk omdat zij vonden dat er tevéél "gezondigd" werd tussen die dikke muren: Azijnpissers ! :-(

[888vsm]

@geertwildersful het ergste is nog dat de museas niks mogen doen niet graven spullen zoeken hele maal niks (kijk eens op fortijland ijmuiden)

[bosb33r]

@firestones18, yep!

[firestones18]

door de nederlanders gebouwd in opdracht van de duitsers!