StP186 Wiesbaden, ex StP214 Holderstrauch Breslau
StP186 Weisbaden is a Luftwaffe station in a group of several other airforce radio/radar units around the area. The height of the hill helps and the view over the channel. There is a Fire Control Post (Peilstand) probably used by one of the local artillery batteries to cover the inland area if invaded by the dreaded British.
StP186 Wiesbaden
StP186 Wiesbaden
Entrance to the site
Situated on a high hill just off the coast an ideal radio site. This site has about four radio aerials sets FuMS S604/2, there may also have been a Würzburg Riece FuSE 65 and a FuMG 80.
(Chazette).
I also have: -
1 x FuSE 65 Würzburg-Riese
1 x ?
1 x FuSE 80 Freya
1 x FuMS S6O4/2 Radar Jamming.
(Deutsches Atlantikwall-Archiv)
Wurzburg Riece Fu.SE 65.
Air warning and fire control with 80klms range.
Fu.SE 80 Freya.
StP186 Wiesbaden,
Luftwaffe Station
7./Luftnachr.Funk.Rgt.West
2 x R668 six man bunker.
1 x Peilstand (Fire Control Post)
6 x Unterstands
2 x Wasser bunkers(Water reservoirs)
3 x Flakstellung.
1 x Garage.
2 x Vf's.
3 x 2cm Flak 30.
StP186 Wiesbaden
German map
The red area is where StP186 Wiesbaden is.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Unterstand
Sat out in the field on the other side of the road is this Unterstand, it just looks like a one roomed building with some odd possibly defence related shaped stone emplacements around the sides.
Plan.
Unterstand from the air showing a defences wall and two machine gun emplacements.
MG42 machine gun.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Unterstand pos. FUMO Radar?
This is another on the western side, we did not walk over to it (big mistake) so will next time. But it does look like the Unterstand over the road.
Plan
Unterstand.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Blast wall
I feel this was a blast wall where a wooden shed would have been placed inside to allow some form of protection.
Plan.
Hut plan with blast wall.
Wooden hut.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Blast wall
Not made from very good quality cement blocks/bricks.
StP186 Wiesbaden
1946 air photo
Funkmess-Störsender (FuMS) Radar - interference sender, active jamming. This was probably a Luftwaffe jamming station.
StP186 Wiesbaden,
R668 six man bunker
This could be one of the R668 six man bunker.
Plan.
R668.
StP186 Wiesbaden
R668 six man bunker
The undergrowth around here was a real problem.
Plan.
StP186 Wiesbaden
R668 six man bunker
The steps down.
Stairs plan.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Aerials bases
Two of the three aerials that are around here.
Plan.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Aerial base
I have no idea how these aerials looked.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Aerial base
Three what look like wooden telegraph poles were used with the steel uprights set in concrete foundation.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Aerial base
StP186 Wiesbaden
Aerial base
The wood probably was cut down by the farmer after the war and either re used in a damaged barn or burnt in his fire.
StP186 Wiesbaden,
Aerials
StP186 Wiesbaden
?
Not sure what this was??
Wn 351 Audervill-Roche HKB Stahl building very much like the main picture.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Aerial
This aerial fittings in the brambles.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Aerial
This aerial fittings in the brambles.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Peilstand
Fire control post/observation probably for the artillery unit at StP187 Krokodil with 4 x 15.5cm s.F.H.19(p).
15.5cm s.F.H.19(p).
StP186 Wiesbaden
Peilstand
From the other side.
Plan.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Peilstand
The vision slot.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Peilstand
Badly made concrete. Often these bunkers were made by local French contractors and the only way for them to fight back was to
StP186 Wiesbaden
Peilstand
Rear door a 434P01 type
434P01 door.
Top door.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Peilstand
Crew room made of Wellblech (corrugated iron).
Inside a Wellblech
StP186 Wiesbaden
Peilstand
Fire control post.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Peilstand
View out to sea.
details
details
details
StP186 Wiesbaden
Control
This could be a control building.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Control
It was too overgrown for us to enter.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Control
Protected building.
Plan.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Flak emplacement
2cm Flak emplacement. 2cm Flak 30.
2cm Flak 30.
2cm Flak 30.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Flak emplacement.
Ready ammunition lockers around the outside.
Plan.
Magazines of 2cm Flak 30 ammunition.
Boxes of 2cm Flak 30 ammunition.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Flak emplacement.
The view over the area of Mont de la Louve.
details
20mm round.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Target V/10
The general area of StP186. These details are from the RAF's file Air 40/1661 showing plans, air photos and details of the target and its surrounding area.
Photo Reconnaissance Units Spitfire over France.
PRU Spitfire over France.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Target V/10
This is the PRU's plan they would have made up to give it to the fighter/bomber crews in the planning of their attacks on the place.
Operations.
RAF Halifax bombing up..
StP186 Wiesbaden
Target V/10
Target information that would be given to the Air Crews.
A lot of Halifax AC could be used for this sort of bombing
Crews arriving at their plane..
StP186 Wiesbaden
Target V10
A close up of what the area looked like from the air.
Brickwork wall all that is left of one building.
20mm Flak emplacement defending the site.
StP186 Wiesbaden
Target V10
RAF target information..
Ops planning.
Crews being informed of the objective.
StP186 Wiesbaden