Stützpunktgruppe Lökken

The coast city Lökken was with its good beaches and close distance to the two airports in Aalborg, ideal for an Allied invasion. The Germans fortified therefore, as part of the Atlantic Wall, the city with several strongpoints.

The town itself was prepared for defense with antitank guns, mortars and machine guns, all installed in heavy pilboxes. There was rolled out barbed wire, laid down mines and panser grave and trenches was dug into the sand.

In late 1942 there was north of the city made a gun battery with four 120 mm. danish guns and in 1944 the guns were replaced with four modern German 127 mm. guns. These were built in pilboxes and placed in the first row of dunes. This whole gun battery is today located on the beach.

North of the gun battery there was built a radar station and scattered throughout the area there were placed antiaircraft guns.

South of the city was placed another gun battery with four 150 mm. guns from the Danish warship Niels Juel, as in August 1943 had been interned by the Germans. The ship was built in 1922 and equipped with a total of ten guns. The guns, which had a range of 18 km., was produced by Bofors in Sweden under license from Krupp in Germany. The guns were identical to those in Gun Batteri Frederikshavn South and these are still in their pilboxes. The gun battery in the south was also fully expanded with pilboxes and these are now on top of and behind the cliff surrounded by cottages.