Name: Westwall tank traps (Höcker) in Naturpark Hohes Venn-Eifel
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Westwall tank traps (Höcker) in Naturpark Hohes Venn-Eifel

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1. View of Ormont – Ruins of a Westwall bunker loop from Kobscheid

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2. Mooshaus loop from Roth bei Prüm

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3. Forester's house loop from Roth bei Prüm

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DULMI

May 12, 2022

testimony of a terrible time. And yet it is nice to see how nature is gradually reclaiming everything.

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R.Bungartz

January 21, 2023

The West Wall was an approximately 630 km long military defense system that was built between 1936 and 1940 and was intended to secure the western border of the then German Reich. Former bunkers, as well as countless ditches and anti-tank barriers have been preserved to this day. The Westwall ran from Kleve on the Dutch border to the Swiss border. Today, valuable biotopes for flora and fauna have emerged in the remains of the former military defense line.

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Die_Ute

September 4, 2021

The Siegfried Line, along the western border of the German Empire (also known by the Allies as the Siegfried Line), was a military defense system spread over approx. 630 km, consisting of over 18,000 bunkers, tunnels and countless trenches and anti-tank barriers. It ran from Kleve on the Dutch border in a southerly direction to Grenzach-Wyhlen on the Swiss border. The Reich Chancellor Hitler had the facility, which was of more propagandistic than strategic value, planned from 1936 and built between 1938 and 1940. Previously, in 1936, contrary to the requirements of the Versailles Peace Treaty, the areas on both sides of the Rhine that had been demilitarized by the Reich as a result of the First World War were reoccupied by Wehrmacht troops.

Today you can still see the so-called "hump" anti-tank traps everywhere on the line. Nature has already recaptured large parts of it, and without any war.

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Location: Ormont, Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Westwall tank traps (Höcker) in Naturpark Hohes Venn-Eifel

1. View of Ormont – Ruins of a Westwall bunker loop from Kobscheid

2. Mooshaus loop from Roth bei Prüm

3. Forester's house loop from Roth bei Prüm

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