WOW! I appreciate the update, thanks very much. That must have been quite an experience, both the personal tour as well as finding shell casings....
It is indeed quite a perplexing question. A facility with 40 buildings including a hospital, presumably occupied by hundreds of Nazi soldiers that just ‘goes off the map’ in that way, particularly in the twentieth century, is quite strange. I’m guessing that the doors being cut off and the dumped garbage could be attributed to nearby locals, but it seems to have ‘disappeared’ as far as those outside the immidiate area are concerned. I hope that Gary will one day be able to figure out exactly what happened.
Thanks again for your post :-)
Basically it was an open air artillery battery with approximately 4 round concrete pads for the large artillery carriages. These were all supported by the many bunkers for fire support, ammo, mess hospital etc. There were several small pill box lookouts along the road leading west away from the compound. Also along the road there were 2-3 fixed and concrete encased gun batteries. The guns were long since scraped but very interesting to walk into.
Todd