The Todt Organization, in response to Hitler’s desire to build a permanent defense in the West, endeavored to pre-define the constituent elements of this military architecture in order to have elementary blocks of standard types. The Grand Bunker Museum becomes a real memory journey …Īll the Atlantic Wall in an authentic SonderKonstruktionĪ Sonderkonstruktion … What can he hide under this strange denomination? Simply a construction program. In addition it invites us to discover this last vestige of the interior by restoring it in its first destination. The Grand Bunker Museum therefore allows us by its high presence not to forget that a powerful device of coastal defenses was deployed to Riva-Bella. It should be noted that the Museum of the Atlantic Wall, the Grand Bunker, is the last visible vestige of what was the most powerful coastal battery in the area, the latter having been defined as a defense zone to be fortified primarily by the German high command. The founders of the Museum wished to offer to visit the 5 levels of this blockhouse in which was installed the nerve center of the command of the defenses of the estuary of the Orne, in order to reconstitute and restore the atmosphere which could reign in this one.
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The founders took full advantage of this 17-meter high construction to re-situate and present the essential functions that characterized the life of the defensive positions of the Atlantic Wall in the D-Day Landing.
After having belonged to the Navy, the founders wanted this unique blockhouse to recover its original appearance.Ī remarkable construction, since it is a Sonderkonstruktion (to which we will devote a paragraph below), all rooms were remodeled in a remarkable way, with a very abundant and authentic material. The Grand Bunker of the former Shooting Command and Management Station has been completely renovated to house a museum devoted entirely to the Atlantic Wall in Normandy.
The Blockhouse of the former command and control post renovated on 5 levels and transformed into a museum, to offer everyone a living Memory Visit!
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