The Andholm Battery was armed with one 24 cm gun. It is very much like the battery in Rugbjerg Plantage, except the platform is missing. There is only a deep hole in the ground. This earlier this lead to the mistake that the battery was never finished. However this is not true.
The battery was an enbedded gun, the so called B-Geschütze. The railway lead direct to the hole,and a crane now could lift the gun from the wagon to the steel platform.
When the gun was mounted, the train left again but could later return and remove the gun.
It is unlikely that there ever wsa at gun at Andholm.
This mounting was used at guns of calibres 21 to 38 cm.
If the front was moving it took to long time to mount or demount the gun, but for a defence line the system was sufficient.
The B-geschütze or Bettungs-geschütze was used by Germany, when they the first two years of the war didn’t have real rail way guns.
The first railway guns (E-geschütze E=Eisenbahn) was used by Germany from 1916.
The Battery was not demolished like so many others because it was situated on private property at the owner would not allow it to be destroyed.
He wanted it to remain as a memory of the time.
To day all the three magazines and crew bunkers intact, accessible and visible.
Even the hole for the gun still exists.
Andholm 1981
Andholm 2009
