Stützpunkt Adolf - Lærdal, Norway

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Stützpunkt Adolf - Lærdal, Norway

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From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sognefjorden
The Sognefjord (Sognefjorden) is the second largest fjord in the world after Scoresby Sund on Greenland, and the largest in Norway. Situated in Sogn og Fjordane in Western Norway, its mouth is about 72km (45mi) north of Bergen, and it stretches 205km (127mi) inland to the small village of Skjolden.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sognefjord.png#file

Stützpunkt Adolf was one of four fortified positions built for monitoring and protecting the West-East sea way and road into Norway through the Sognefjord/Lærdalsfjord "branch" and Lærdal valley. It is the northern position on the Norwegian link & map shown below. These positions and the town (Lærdalsøyri) was protected by some 1.000 German troops (II./I.R. 193) before protection of the fjord was relocated closer to the sea after 1941.
http://www.sffarkiv.no/sffbasar/default ... ype=single

There is not much cement or concrete to be seen as most of the installation was drilled, hammered or dynamited into the rock. This first image shows the western part of the main rock "Heller" today. The various positions are marked with numbers.
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Image two is to illustrate the complex route up the "rock" to the various positions and a centre diagram showing the main command bunker and mortar position (See first image - 3 & 4).
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I'm sorry the photos came out as poor as they did and hope you'll all bear over with my lousy photographing skills too. One of the pictures shown had me almost wetting myself as I had to climb out of the window onto a little ledge with only about half a meter between me and a 10-15 meter vertical fall down the mountain.
Not pleasant but I just had to have a picture of the bunker front which unfortunately was not visible from the foot of the rock or beach below ("fjord view" on diagram).


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Re: Stützpunkt Adolf - Lærdal, Norway

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Very interesting!
Could you not please post this topic at our Forum as well? http://nuav.rforum.biz/index.htm

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