Battery Oldenburg (Calais)
France /
Nord-Pas-de-Calais /
Calais /
chemin des Dunes
World
/ France
/ Nord-Pas-de-Calais
/ Calais
Second World War 1939-1945, bunker, gun emplacement
Battery Oldenburg is a German artillery battery, built during World War II as part of the Atlantic Wall, and situated east of Calais. The battery began in 1940 with artillery guns in an open emplacement. The Organisation Todt built casemates around two 240mm guns during the war.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 50°58'33"N 1°54'18"E
- German Artillery Battery MKB Oldenburg (2x28cm) 0.5 km
- German Artillery Fortress 'MKB Waldau' 1.2 km
- Batterie Lindemann (site) - 3x40.6 cm SK C/34 gun 13 km
- former Batterie Großer Kurfürst 25 km
- Cap Gris-Nez 26 km
- Battery Todt 26 km
- U-12(wreck) 36 km
- Leffrinckoucke Battery 39 km
- Field Battery Bamburg 64 km
- HMS Wakeful 73 km
- German Artillery Battery MKB Oldenburg (2x28cm) 0.1 km
- Calais 'Jungle' 0.7 km
- Port of Calais 3.4 km
- Calais Harbour 3.6 km
- Calais - Dunkerque Airport 3.8 km
- Calais city centre 4.1 km
- Bassin 4.3 km
- Car Export Marshalling Yard 5.6 km
- Dover Strait 23 km
- Channel Tunnel 31 km