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Wn. Piretenschloss

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Pirates Castle Resistance Nest

Wn. Piretenschloss is a small resistance nest located inside the Roman 'Lower Fort' (nunnery) at Longis Bay. The site featured the only type R631(b) built on Alderney, this being a Channel Islands designed modification of the R631 that was designed to house a 4.7cm Pak K36(t). The site also featured a twin-roomed RFO MG bunker, and a large R501 Personnel bunker as well as several smaller features.

Features on Site

R631(b) for 4.7cm Pak K36(t)

R501 personnel bunker

RFO personnel & store bunker

2x A/A MG emplacement

RFO twin-room MG bunker

Signal lap/observation position

RFO MG bunker

RFO 60cm searchlight shelter & position

RFO triple MG bunker

RFO 4.7cm PaK K36(t) casemate

R501 Personnel Bunker

The R501 is a large, single roomed personnel bunker. In this instance it is located inside the fort, perfectly positioned inside the walls of the Roman tower. This example is unusual as the roof for the main room does not step down, leaving the bunker with a much higher celling inside the crew area.

A clean crew room, with positions for machinery at the far end, an escape shaft and entrance-defence shutter.

A close up on the machinery. We are not sure what could have gone here.

Very nice electronics.

With a red ring on the gas door.

R631(b)

This is the largest bunker at this resistance nest, and the only one of its type on Alderney. It is located north of the main complex and is integrated with PzM 1. It was designed to house a 4.7cm Pak K36(t) gun that could fire directly out into the bay.

Nice cuts for the ventilators, integrated tobruk on the left.

The crew room was panelled in wood. The layout differs from the usual, with an entrance defence shutter here.

Nice instructions.

Large fuseboxes.

Well-preserved.

With heavy-duty ducts in the ventilation room.

And here.

Colour coded depending on what was being carried inside.

RFO Twin-Roomed MG Bunker

This structure is located inside the fort's walls, near the R501 and is well-preserved. It contains one of the few examples of a wooden mounting for MG left on the Atlantic Wall. One of the apertures has been destroyed to provide access to the beach via the bunker.

Edelweiss above the entrance.

Perfect.

Near the entrance.

RFO 60cm Searchlight Shelter

Integrated into the forts walls, it leads out onto a position above the dunes. The position is now buried but the shelter and tracks remain.

From the outside. The unique construction of the Roman walls can be seen.

Original marking.

Now housing a Pak 36.

Cuts for storage on the left.

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