Verteidigungsbereich Hansted

In early November 1940 the Germans began constructing a gun battery, consisting of four 380 mm. guns at Hanstholm in Denmark. Together with a sister battery in Kristiansand, Norway (Battery Vara) the guns in Hanstholm should block the entrance to Kattegat. (the sea between Denmark, Norway and Sweden) Both gun batterys had with a special grenade  of 1000 lb. a range of 34 miles. Standard grenade weighed 1750 lb. and here the range was 26 miles. In the middle of the water, between the two gun batteries, the germans laid down a large minefield.

In late August, the last test firing was made and the battery was operatively. Besides the four large pillboxes there were in Hanstholm built a large number of other bunkers. Bunkers to ammunition, firecontrol, power, close combat, nursing and off course anti aircraft guns. The whole area around gun battery was constructed to defend the big guns, so their where trenches, barbed wire and minefields.

One of the big gun bunkers are today a museum.