{"id":47834,"date":"2022-06-26T22:50:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T20:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47834"},"modified":"2022-06-30T18:36:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T16:36:05","slug":"a-tour-of-a-huge-german-bunker-that-still-preserves-an-engineering-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/26\/a-tour-of-a-huge-german-bunker-that-still-preserves-an-engineering-gem\/","title":{"rendered":"A tour of a huge German bunker that still preserves an engineering gem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two world wars that devastated Europe have left some very interesting sites for explorers of abandoned military positions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/06\/maisy-the-german-normandy-battery-that-was-mysteriously-buried-by-the-us\/\">Maisy: the German Normandy battery that was mysteriously buried by the US<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/09\/19\/maginot-this-is-the-interior-of-the-fortified-line-that-was-constructed-to-stop-germany\/\">Maginot: This is the interior of the fortified line that was constructed to stop Germany<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>An example of this is <strong>the German bunker built before the First World War that the explorer and photographer Bob Thissen<\/strong> has visited and that he has revealed this afternoon on his always interesting YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/ExploringtheUnbeatenPath\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Exploring the Unbeaten Path<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WwqkQmxk2wA\" title=\"ABANDONED | German Pre WWI Fort with Underground Power Station.\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob doesn't say where this bunker is, he doesn't even indicate the country<\/strong> (as he does in other videos), but the video gives us some clues. Significantly, although Bob says that this huge bunker was built by the Germans,<strong> the fortification signs are in French<\/strong>, and at the beginning of the video there are some nice murals painted by graffiti artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/syro.one\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">J\u00e9r\u00e9my Syro<\/a>, a native of Metz, a city located in <strong>the French region of Lorraine<\/strong>. A part of this region was annexed by the German Empire between 1871 and 1918, later passing to France.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52175305045_2ec6f30e4e_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the video, Bob points out that<strong> the bunker is still in a military zone and that they are still used for maneuvers<\/strong>, so he has taken some risk by going there. One thing that is very striking is that after entering the bunker, <strong>Bob meets hundreds of mosquitoes<\/strong>, and also of a considerable size.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52174814001_2a927c19e3_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another striking feature of this military position is that, as you can see,<strong> the walls of its corridors are filled with smoke: it is as if it had been attacked with flamethrowers.<\/strong> Bob points out that the bunker was the scene of fighting between the Germans and Americans in World War II.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52173789702_0332c372ea_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The military position is <strong>connected by underground galleries with another bunker.<\/strong> These galleries have the typical vaulted shape of many sewers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52175065374_b129099812_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Upon accessing the second bunker, <strong>what Bob finds is an underground power plant with the machinery in relatively good condition<\/strong>, despite the fact that there are signs that a fire took place here (the walls are black with smoke).<strong> This machinery will be over a hundred years old and is a jewel of engineering.<\/strong> It is a pity that it is forgotten in that place, so many meters under the ground. You can see more in the video.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52175305120_54c3bcc6bf_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two world wars that devastated Europe have left some very interesting sites for explorers of abandoned military positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,16879],"tags":[10575,10929,15298],"class_list":["post-47834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-fortifications","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-world-war-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}