The Stevns Fort underground tunnels. Stevns. Denmark.
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3744 x 5616 px | 31.7 x 47.5 cm | 12.5 x 18.7 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
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The Stevns Fort underground tunnels. Stevns. Denmark.More information:
The Stevns Fort. Stevns. Denmark. Photo from underground tunnels 18 meter below the surface. The green color is due to algs wich the heavy moist nourish. Stevns Fort is today a museum over the cold war and opened in 2008 after years of hard work by volunters.The fort was finished in 1954 - 2 years before the Hungarian uprising - and was meant to be Denmarks contribution to its NATO commitments. The mission of the fort was to monitor Sovjet and Eastern European operations into this area of the western part of the Baltic sea and with its artteliry to defend Denmark and to be part of the overall strategic "Cork in the Baltic" . The essential part of the fort, the tunnels and the underground installations was established 18 meter below the surface. The area - Stevns Cliffs - is made of chalk - the nearby cliffs is some 40 meter deep - and is extremely chock absorbing, which means that the under ground installation even could take an atomic bomb. On the surface the artillery installations counted the among others the canons of the German battle ship Gneisenaug, Nike and Ajax missile battery. It is now all a museum. Visitors can walk freely around the many well maintained surface installations and their are guided tours in various languages down in the tunnels. When leaving the museum one of the impressions is that for the people of the cold war era the question was not iif the war would come, but when.