Artillery Battery Stützpunkt 20

 Second World War 1939-1945, military, artillery battery, listed building / architectural heritage

German WW2 Atlantikwall Artillery bunker Stützpunkt 20, Granville, Pointe du Roc
There were two German Gun Batteries protecting the important port of Granville. Both gun positions were provided with French Schnieder guns of first world war vintage. At Pointe du Roc the guns were of a larger calibre (120mm manufactured in 1917, captured in Belgium), housed in type M158 Casemates, also at this site there was a Fire Control Post (type M162a) and a type 621 personnel bunker. Unusually the site is now used by the Coast guards as a look out tower, they have even added an extra story to the original buildings. The four Casemates (671) which once housed the guns now have doors and are used as garages.
Sources:
www.atlantikwall.org.uk/new_page_50.htm
bunkersite.com/locations/france/cherbourg/671-granv.php