MPHS in Norway

[nordfriese]

Hi to all!

@StigG
I am a bit late, but better than never...
Thanks for the picture. Unfortunately the picture contains no hints to the MPHS to me.

@T.Knutsen
I have checked a couple of pictures I have and found out that some of them are a little
bit "disordered". If it is not Randsberg, this must be another MPHS/MPNS, wherever.
Thanks again for this information...

Best wishes
Rolf

[SES]

Hi!

I have read in another thread here in the forum about a small "bunker" in the area of a DF (I hope my translation-program
translated it proper to me ).
One of my upper pictures shows a 6-mast-Adcock-DF at Hjörring/DK (unsure). In the middle of the antenna-circle is a small
hut for the operator. For your information, there were also Adcock-DFs at other MPHS/MPNS, which used not a hut, but a
small "bunker" under the surface as the operator-"room". The size was round about 3 x 3m.

Example:
At MPHS Neusiedl (Austria) is still a strange concrete "thing" at/near the former position of a 4-mast-Adcock-DF.

Best wishes!
Rolf

Hi Rolf,
I'll put my money on this
bregds
SES

[nordfriese]

Hi!

@T.Knutsen
I have checked a couple of pictures I have and found out that some of them are a little
bit "disordered". If it is not Randsberg, this must be another MPHS/MPNS, wherever.

It took awhile, but it is not Randsberg.
Picture no. 5 in my first post shows MPHS Neumünster in northern Germany. The picture
must have been taken before 1936, because it shows the old wooden masts build in 1912.
They were broke down in 1936 and exchanged by masts made from metal.

Best wishes
Rolf

[mikedenmark]

Just a danish note.
Hjörring is really Hjørring. Situated in northern Jutland. It can be found with google maps.

North of the town, there is still today an operative radio/radar installation. Exactly where around Hjørring the german installation was placed, I cannot tell.

In 1945-46, danish officers traveled all over Denmark, and compiled a list of all known german installations.

After those that could be used by the danish defense had been secured, the rest was sold off, torn down, or buried.

I think the report om german sites is available somewhere.
Here is a link to info on the coastal guns.
http://www.museumscenterhanstholm.dk/vi ... -1946.aspx

Similar reports were made about everything else.

[nordfriese]

Hi Mike!

Thanks for the info!

Best wishes
Rolf

[Natter]

I came across this today (T-1022 Roll 2234) - is it some kind of standard construction?
How is "MPS" related to "MPHS" (I assume it stands for "Marine Peil Stelle"..?)

[SES]

Hi Natter,
Mange tak. NARA er en guldgrube.
mvh
SES

[nordfriese]

Hi!

Nice find!

The Kriegsmarine had some early receiving stations in Germany. Their names changed
during the years. Before the war they were called "B-Stellen" (B for Beobachtung),
then MPS and later during the war MPHS/MPNS. (Sometimes a bit confusing, because
some other names were also used.)

Some of them had wooden buildings, some were made of bricks. The build-up of these
barracks were totally different.


In this case, the build-up was for "MPS Mitte" (Marine-Peil-Stelle, cover-name Marine-
funkstelle) at Berwicke, near the city of Soest.

The file is from 1934 and it is "just a plan". As you can read "Bauten im Stil der
umliegenden Höfe" (buildings in the style of the surrounding farms) were never
completed.

MPS Mitte started its work at Oct. 1st, 1935 and at that time there was only one
wooden barrack, because at the beginning of their work there were just 20 soldiers.
Their job was to intercept radio-signals of the french navy.

Because of the pretty good receiving-conditions, the OKM decided to build a bigger
and technical more modern site to cover more of the french radiotraffic. The barrack
at Berwicke was too small.

In spring 1938 the new post was finished and the soldiers moved to their new post
at Soest. Here they used for the operation-building a kind of "operational Regelbau".
The building looked like a inverted "Z". This kind of building can be found at the
MPHS in Neumünster, Swinemünde, Langenargen and Neusiedel (A).

Best wishes
Rolf

[SES]

. . . and MPHS Hjørring
bregds
SES

[nordfriese]

Hi SES!

I thought at Hjörring they had two L-shaped barracks and two "normal" ones.
Were they wooden or made of bricks?

The ones in Germany (and the one in Austria) were made solid of bricks.

Best wishes
Rolf

[SES]

Hi Rolf,
I think you are right
bregds
SES