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MKB 4/511 Ofoten

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 9:00
by German
hallo!
Hat einer die Koordinaten dieser Batterie?
Bernd

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 11:40
by RasmusTerne
Hello!
Are you sure that you got the number of this battery right?
I can not find a battery with that number (4/511) in my listings. Number 4 seems to not exsist in MAA 511.
Regards, Sigfred R.

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 13:05
by German
Hello!
So when the atlantic wall-research-norway.de this position is given. MKB 4 / 511 Ofoten from 1941-1944.
Bernd

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 14:00
by werner wernersen
Hello

i have notet that MKB 5/411 was dismantlet in 1944, i dont know where it was moved.

Werner

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 14:10
by German
Hello!
Is strange.

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 14:11
by German
MKB 4/511 Ofoten 2 28 cm schwere Bruno Kanone 1941-42

MKB 4/511 Ofoten 4 24 cm K M93/96 (f) 1942-44

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 14:22
by werner wernersen
Hello

In Jan Egil Fjørtoft book, Tyske Kystfor i Norge, he have written 24 cm battery was ready i oct 1942 and was dismantled in sept 1944 and was shipped to Stavanger. it was plased at Nærbø.

Werner

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 14:27
by German
Look at www.atlantikwall-research-norway.de/Data HKB MKB Listing.html
There is the MKB in the list.

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 14:29
by German

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 14:53
by RasmusTerne
werner wernersen wrote:Hello

In Jan Egil Fjørtoft book, Tyske Kystfor i Norge, he have written 24 cm battery was ready i oct 1942 and was dismantled in sept 1944 and was shipped to Stavanger. it was plased at Nærbø.

Werner
There we are :D
MKB 4/511 was a railway battery, and as sutch there will be no remains in the Ofoten area.
See also. http://www.kystfort.com/forum/topic1638-15.html

Regards Sigfred R

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 15:17
by Natter
RasmusTerne wrote:MKB 4/511 was a railway battery, and as sutch there will be no remains in the Ofoten area.
See also. http://www.kystfort.com/forum/topic1638-15.html
There are several bunkers and flak-posistions at the battery's location in Nærbø, so I assume there might have been similar constructions at the Ofoten-site (maybe not relevant, but it was located in Ofoten for a longer period than in Nærbø...)?

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 16:28
by Erik E
so I assume there might have been similar constructions at the Ofoten-site
MKB Ofoten also had a 15cm SKL/45 flaregun... Guess this gun had it`s own concrete emplacement instead of a railroadcar.
As pr. 1/1-1943, the "Ausbaustand MKB Ofoten" states the following:

4 x 24cm K(E)558(f)
1 x 15cm SKL/45

4 x Vf Mannschaftsunterstand geplant
1 x Muni Felshohlbau - Fertig
2 x Muni Felshohlbau - begonnen
1 x feldmässig Muniunterstand geplant
Sonstige Bauten:
1 x Vf begonnen
2 x feldmässig Fertig
7 x feldmässig Geplant
7 x Mannschaftbarracken

So... There should definately be something to see if we could locate the batterysite...

Erik E

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 21:05
by RasmusTerne
Hello!
I am still not so sure that one will find any remains in Narvik connected to this battery. The railway runs right thru the center of the city, and ends on Framnes, the storing and shipping area for iron ore from Sweden. In my opinion this (Framnes) is the most likely posision for placing a battery against sea targets in Ofotfjorden, and in this area there is absolutly nothing left of what might have been there in -45.
Regardinf AA battery and other sites was the Narvik peninsula and the areas surrounding the city "crowded" with them.
If the instalations of MKB 4/511 was sited between the railway station and Bjørnefjell we have a "case" :) It might just be something left there.
Regards Sigfred R.

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 22:44
by J E F
RasmusTerne wrote:Hello!
I am still not so sure that one will find any remains in Narvik connected to this battery. The railway runs right thru the center of the city, and ends on Framnes, the storing and shipping area for iron ore from Sweden. In my opinion this (Framnes) is the most likely posision for placing a battery against sea targets in Ofotfjorden, and in this area there is absolutly nothing left of what might have been there in -45.
Regardinf AA battery and other sites was the Narvik peninsula and the areas surrounding the city "crowded" with them.
If the instalations of MKB 4/511 was sited between the railway station and Bjørnefjell we have a "case" :) It might just be something left there.
Regards Sigfred R.
Both E-btt 689 (2x28 cm SBruno) and MAB 4/511 were located at Framnes. E-btt 689 vas on a special turntable, which was dismantled and reused with the battry in southern Norway. The MAB 4/511 operated from standard gauge railway tracks, having outriggers to stabilize the gun.

Posted: 26 Oct 2008 23:31
by StigG
I found a commandbunker close to a Rimi shop on Framnes. Maby it is related to the railway guns...