Stützpunktgruppe Hirthals

The Danish city of Hirthals was during World War II heavily fortified by the Germans. Strongpointgroup Hirtshals was in the summer of 1941 equipped with two gun battery’s, each equipped with four 105 mm. captured French guns. They were to start with out in open ring positions, but was later installed in pillboxes with a corresponding command bunker and several munitions bunkers.

One gun battery was south of the harbor, by the lighthouse, and the other east of the harbor. For the protection of the two gun battery’s there were built several strongholds with anti-tank weapons, air defense and close combat. There were made minefields, barbed wire rolled out and dug trenches, tank pits and shooting positions.

By the harbor there was brought an amplifier station, which would ensure the telephone connection, between Denmark and Norway.

There is today a museum in southern gun battery and most of the other bunkers are scattered round the villa quarters and between industrial buildings.