Coastal Gun Battery  Vigsö

The Germans built in 1941 as part of the Atlantic wall, a coastal battery at Vigsoe. The gun battery was positioned in the first row of dunes, to protect the right flank of the gun battery in Hanstholm. For starters, the four 105 mm. guns was placed in open stands and crew quartered in barracks. In late 1942 began construction of bunkers. The guns were installed in pillboxes, one bunker was made for fire control and several for crew. There were also built two  ammunition bunkers for air defense and close combat.

By the end of the war, the manning of the battery was 2 officers, 20 sergeants and 82 privates. 32 Danish workmen performed different works, including coastal protection.

Most of the bunkers is today located at the beach or in the water, but it is still possible to see the extensive earthworks in the dunes behind the gun battery. The bunkers at Vigsoe was in 1970 used as scenery for filming of the danish movie Olsenbanden in Jutland.