Kristiansand Cannon Museum

Coordinates: 58°05′31″N 7°58′06″E / 58.09194°N 7.96833°E / 58.09194; 7.96833
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The Cannon, a 38 cm SK C/34 naval gun. on Batterie Vara
Casemate on Batterie Vara. The largest cannon that was to be here, did not arrive as the cargo ship was sunk in the Kattegat in February 1945
Organization Todt
in 1943
Restored wallpainting: "Fidelity is the sign of honor"
38 cm SK C/34 naval cannon

Kristiansand Cannon Museum is a museum at Møvik, 8 kilometers west of the town centre of Kristiansand, Norway. The museum has collected authentic equipment from a former military installation.

The name

The

Major General Felix Vara, who was killed off Alderney in the English Channel on 3 November 1941. After the war, the Norwegian Armed Forces
named it Møvik Fort.

History

The fort was constructed between 1941 and 1944 by the German navy. Together with four other coastal batteries, it formed a part of the Kristiansand Artillery Group. Together with its sister battery at

Kattegatt Bay, the Baltic Sea and the Baltic region for the allied naval forces.[1] Only a field, ten nautical miles wide, in the Skagerrak could not be covered by the guns of these facilities. This field was therefore mined.[2]

Adolf Hitler worked personally for the barrier strategy and the decision about the fortress in Hanstholm was made in May 1940. In May 1941, two of the guns in Hanstholm were in place and on the Norwegian side preparatory work started.

For a few years after the war, Møvik fort was an operating Norwegian fortress. In 1953 it became part of Kristiansand fortress. On 20 April 1959 the fort was closed and two of the guns and the foundations of the fourth were scrapped.[3][4]

The museum

Plans for a museum began in 1984.

funicular railway who once transported the heavy shells are well underway.[6]

The fortress had four gun positions, of which one of the guns is still intact. There are empty gun emplacements and an empty casemate.[7] The 38 cm calibre gun is one of the largest in the world; the barrel alone weighs 110 tons, measures almost 20 m in length and has a range of up to 55 km (34 miles). In the museum, this historic site can be experienced, by following the Fortress Trail - a walk to places and buildings which tell of everyday life in a fortress and national, military events.[8]

The Kristiansand Cannon Museum is run today by the Foundation Kristiansand Cannon Museum Møvik (Stiftelsen Kristiansand Kannonmuseum Møvik) and administered by the Nasjonale Festningsverk (National Fortresses). The gun at the fort is one of the largest remaining land-based guns in the World.[9][10]

See also

References

  1. ^ History at the Kristiansand Cannon Museums Homepage
  2. ^ The Atlantic Wall Linear Museum - 085_N 6_Marine Artillerie Abteilung 502 Battery Vara in Norwegian
  3. ^ Kristiansand Kannonmuseum on www.venturenorway in English
  4. ^ Møvik: Det største tyske forsvarsverk på Sørlandet DigitaltMuseum (in Norwegian)
  5. ^ a b "Møvik fast" (in Norwegian). p. 3. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  6. NRK
    6 January 2015 (in Norwegian)
  7. ^ Møvik www.festningsverk.no includes photographs (in Norwegian)
  8. ^ About the Cannon from the homepages in Norwegian
  9. ^ Polish page about the largest coastal fortress in the world, Trondenes fort in English
  10. ^ Møvik fort at Nasjonale Festningsverk in Norwegian

External links

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