Dønnums fabrikker

Dønnums fabrikker in Mogreina closed down for good in 1995 but still, 16 years later, the old disused factory building sites unused and derelict as a giant blemish on the otherwise picturesque local community. The factory processed the remains of dead animals, producing bone meal, grease and glue. Needless to say, the smell from this process was not particularly pleasant and it may have been a campaign by the local community to have the factory shut down that was the final nail in the coffin for the factory.
The fate of the factory building after it’s closure has been a long drawn out battle between the local community, the municipality and the current owner of the grounds. The factory has been ordered torn down by the municipality but the owner wishes to build houses on the grounds after the factory has been removed, and claims he does not have the money to tear down the factory without getting a go ahead for the housing project and securing financing for this. There is also the issue of ground contamination after years of industrial activity on the grounds. Most likely the factory will be torn down in relative near future.

HKB 31./979 Justöen

HKB Justöen, also known as Birkenstrasse, was a coastal fortress built by the German army during the occupation of Norway during world war 2. The building commenced in 1941 but even though it soon became operational, it was never completely finished before the surrender of Nazi Germany in may 1945. The fortress was equipped with 4 x 10.5cm K332 (f) French field cannons with a range of approx. 16000 meters. The fortress was spread out over a large area with a multitude of smaller machine gun positions, flame throwers, mortar positions as well as being completely surrounded by a barbed wire blockade and a mine field.

MAB 9./504 Nordfjorden

At Rugsundøy, by the inlet to the fjord Nordfjord in Bremanger municipality in Norway, lies this coastal fortress, built by the German wehrmacht during the second world war. The German invaders arrived at this small desolate island already during the fall of 1940 and started the construction of what was to become MAB 9./504 Nordfjorden. This fortress was organized under the Kriegsmarine M.A.A. 504 division, located in Bergen.

Julneset and Julholmen

The establishment of MKB 1./505 Jul at Julneset outside of Molde, was started as early as the beginning of may 1940, only one month after the invasion of Norway. To begin with, it was equipped with 3×10.5cm Uto c/16 L/45 canons with a range of 15400 meters. These came from the German vessel «Albatros» which ran aground in the Oslo fjord during the invasion and was later declared unsalvageable. In 1943 the battery was reinforced with an extra canon in addition to the 3 it already had from «Albatros».
The battery was also equipped with 13×20 mm AA-guns and 2×7.5 cm Belgian field guns in addition to a number of machine guns, flame throwers and flood lights.

Just 1 km north of Julneset lies Julholmen where the Germans built a torpedo battery, “Torpedobatterie Julholmen”. This battery was initially equipped with a Norwegian torpedo canon with 2x45cm torpedo tubes. In 1944 this torpedo canon was replaced with a German one, having 2x52cm torpedo tubes.

The battery at Julneset, now a nature reserve, shows clear signs of being easily accessible, with quite a lot of graffiti and other vandalism so I didn’t spend much time here, but it’s well worth a visit, not the least due to it’s unique command bunker.

The torpedo battery at Julholmen is not quite as easily accessible and what little remains inside it is in surprisingly good shape with little rust etc. Although it’s a 1-2km walk from the road through quite dense forest, there is a path leading most of the way out to the battery, if you can find it (which I didn’t on the way out, thus spending twice the time getting out there as was strictly necessary). The building looks massive from the outside, yet is surprisingly small on the inside. A reasonable explanation for this, is probably the 2 meter walls of reinforced concrete.

The front of the R636a command bunker at Julneset

Command bunker at Julneset from the side

Backside of the R636a command bunker at Julneset

Inside the fire controll room in the command bunker at Julneset

Position for the rangefinder on the top floor of the command bunker at Julneset

Crew bunker at Julneset

Gun position at Julneset with a marvelous view of the fjord and mountains outside

Foundations of the barracks at Julholmen.

Smaller bunker at Julholmen

Flak or flood light position at Julholmen

The torpedo bunker from the outside

Entrence and stairs up to tobruk position on top of bunker

The torpedo bunker from the outside

Command position in the torpedo bunker

The entrance/exit for the bunker

The torpedo hall from the rear

The torpedo hall from the front

Position of the torpedo canon and the gate infront of the launch opening

Front of the torpedo hall with doorway and stairs up to the sentry position on the right

embrasure in the sentry position

Pulley for the gate lifting mechanism

Lifting mechanism in the roof

Doorway to the generator room

Torpedobatterie Nordlandet

This torpedo battery which is located on the cliffs just outside of Kristiansund was built by the Germans during World War II as part of Hitlers Atlantic wall, an extensive system of coastal fortifications built by the German Third Reich in 1942 until 1944 along the western coast of Europe to defend against an anticipated Allied invasion of the mainland from Great Britain.

It is an interesting and huge structure, partly built with concrete (St, meaning a minimum wall thickness of 2 meters) and partly built into the rock and cliff face itself. The battery was finished in December 1944 but never saw any action before the end of the war, only six months later. After the war it was briefly in use by the Norwegian coastal artillery, but was soon abandoned and stripped down. The armament consisted of Dutch torpedo canon with four 53 cm torpedo tubes and a number of flak-positions.

First sighting. Flak positions. Obviously getting close 🙂

The bunker where the torpedoes was loaded into the battery

The bunker where the torpedoes was loaded into the battery

Entrance to the bunker

Better be carefull. That’s a 20 foot drop. Those stairs doesn’t look too inviting either. Better try another route to get in, I guess.

The evil eye… Let’s see where this leads

The doorway leading into the bunker blasted into the rock face

This looks more promising…

Large hall at the bottom of the stairs. The stairs themselves can be seen in the top middle of the picture.

Continuing into the facility. Luckily the water isn’t too deep

Possibly room for ammunition storage. This room is through the doorway of the previous picture, and at the bottom, off to the side of the stairs seen previously

Launch ramp. The bolt ring where the torpedo tubes used to be can still be seen on the floor

Launch ramp. The bolt ring where the torpedo tubes used to be can still be seen on the floor

The room where the torpedo tubes was located, from the front. Stairs up to the leitstand to the left.

Back outside. Inside a VF bunker?

The leitstand from the outside

And, as a parting image… the torpedo battery from the business end

View from the shoreline just 50 meters down from the battery

Eidsfossen Kraftverk

Eidsfossen Kraftstasjon ble bygd i perioden våren 1915 – våren 1917. Den skulle forsyne Røstvangen Gruver med elektrisk strøm. Inntil kraftstasjonen stod ferdig, hadde Røstvangen vært avhengig av dieselaggregat til å drive taubanen og gi strøm til annen virksomhet. Når anleggsperioden ved Eidsfossen ble såpass lang som to år, skyldes det at arbeidet stoppet opp på grunn av en arbeidskonflikt som varte i 3 ½ måned i 1916.

Kraftstasjonen bestod av dammen, en tunnel under veien til fordelingsbassenget på oversiden av R3, en 300 meter lang rørgate herfra under veien igjen ned til selve kraftstasjonen.

Da driften ved Røstvangen Gruver ble lagt ned i 1921 og det meste var fjernet eller ødelagt, kjøpte skraphandler Hjalmar Carlson det som var igjen av Eidsfossen Kraftstasjon sammen med resten av Røstvangen-anlegget. Han solgte det ene av de to aggregatene ved kraftstasjonen. I 1932 kjøpte noen gårdbrukere i Kvikne det som var igjen av anlegget, som nå forsynte Kvikne med strøm fram til slutten av 50-tallet.
(Kilde: Stein Sagbakken: Røstvangen Gruver 1904-1921)

Ta også gjerne en kikk på disse sidene:
Tynset kommunes nettsider, med informasjon om kraftverket og en del bilder fra kraftverket mens det var i drift
En virtuell vandring i kraftstasjonen
Litt mer info om kraftverket på www.kvikne.no

Generator

Del på generatoren

Del på generatoren

Den gjenværende generatoren

Ikke noe gammel nedlagt industri med respekt for seg selv, uten minst en krok hengende fra taket

Formodentlig noe slags kontrollmekansime for vanngjennomstrømning

Kontrollpanel

Baksiden av kontrollpanelet

Baksiden av noe slags bryter?

En ekte dingsebombs

Utsikten nedover elva fra et av vinduene i kraftstasjonen

Store flotte vinduer med utsikt mot elven utenfor

Utsikten nedover elva fra et av vinduene i kraftstasjonen

Onsrud leir

Ullensaker har hatt den største konsentrasjonen av militærleire i Sørøst-Norge. Onsrud vestre har en historie som strekker seg helt tilbake til da gården ble lagt ut til offisersgård i 1663. Under andre verdenskrig var den i bruk som rekonvalesenthjem for tyske soldater og i perioden 1952 til 1998 fungerte den som militærleir. Anlegget er registrert i Statens kulturhistoriske eiendommer og er klassifisert som verneverdig av Statsbygg.

Onsrud leir ble endelig nedlagt i 1998. Etter nedleggelsen ble leiren kjøpt opp av Statsbygg for og brukes som transittmottak for flyktninger. I løpet av de 5-6 årene mottaket var i drift, frem til det ble nedlagt i 2004 så var leiren i følge det jeg har lest i gamle avisartikler, et gigantisk pengesluk.

Den har tydeligvis vært brukt til forskjellige formål opp gjennom årene, men ut ifra hva jeg har klart å finne ut, så ble Onsrud leir bla. benyttet som base i Norge for Norges FN-operasjoner. Leiren var også forlegning for NIKE-batteriet i Nes. På et tidspunkt så var den også tilholdssted for Garden.

Ifølge informasjonen på statsbygg sine nettsider, så er det i dag 2 leietakere der.

Inngangsport på oversiden av leiren

Oppkjørsel til portvakten

Portvakten

Portvakten

Eldre murbyggning som opprinnelig ble brukt av misjonsskolen som holdte til på Onsrud.

Onsrud O.H. 1887

En av kasernene. Har i nyere tid vært brukt som transittmottak for flyktninger

En av kasernene. Har i nyere tid vært brukt som transittmottak for flyktninger

Kantinen

Kantinen

Akershus forsvarsdistrikt

Enøyd banditt

Porter mellom garasjeanlegget og selve leiren

Smøre/Vaskehall

Garasjeanlegget har tydeligvis sett bedre dager

Drivstoffbu?

Drivstoffbu?

MAB 1./507 Husøya – Tarva

On the remote island of Tarva, off the coast of Trøndelag in Norway, lies this huge coastal fortress which consisted of a multitude of bunkers, trenches, gun positions, cannon emplacements, radars and more, built by the Germans after the invasion of Norway in April 1940. The fortress was equipped with 3 huge 28cm SKL/45 guns, capable of propelling a projectile almost 40 kilometres away. It also had an extensive set of defensive works in the surrounding area, to defend against land based and airborne attacks.

At it’s peak, over 2000 German soldiers was garrisoned on this island. In addition, there was an unknown number of POW incarcerated here to work on the building of the fortress. The fortress got a brief history as part of the Norwegian army after the war but after an accident during test firing of one of the canons in November 1945, in which a grenade exploded inside the canon, killing 6 of the German crew, and 2 Norwegians, further plans for a coastal fortress as this Island was abandoned. A 500Kg piece of the canon can still be found where it fell after the explosion 55 years ago, almost 1.5 kilometres from where the canon stood.

To get to this island, there’s a 2 times daily ferry, going once back and forth in the morning, and once back and forth in the afternoon, with a bit different timing during weekends. In order to get as much time as possible on the island, I decided to take the last ferry out on Friday evening, and the only ferry back again, the next day. This left me with about 16 hours between I got to the Island at 20:00 Friday evening, and until I had to be back at the ferry, to get back to the mainland at 12:25 the next day. The 5 hours of sleep I got during the night was obviously too long, since 16 hours proved wholly inadequate and I didn’t even manage to get around everything, much less take a second round to take some more proper pictures as I had planned, after doing a preliminary round just taking snapshots. I suppose this just means I need to go back some other time ; – )

The ferry taking me from the mainland out to the island, and back again

Landing for the ferry

Only the building foundations and steps are left

Unknown position

House made out of rocks and concrete

Water reservoir, still in use

Recycling fenceposts for barbed wire blockade

Kabelhaus

Steps leading from baracks up to positions on top of the hill

Smaller gun position?

Smaller gun or radar position?

Part of the camouflage covering for a canon?

View from one of the bunkers

Tank traps

Foundations of building

House without a roof

Tree groing in the middle of what used to be an office

Garage

Some kind of building made out of concrete

Shelter

Foundation for one of the radars

Business end of tunnel entrence

Severely rusted door inside tunnel

Business end of tunnel entrence

Fluwa – air defence lookout

Possibly a phone?

Trenches leading to covered defensive position

Entrance to the giant mamoth radar bunker

Same entrance from the inside

Inside the bunker for the mamoth radar

Shaft up to the top of the radar bunker, where the actual radar was located

Inside the bunker for the mamoth radar

Bunker near the mamoth radar

Bunker near the mamoth radar

Beds inside a tunnel

Some kind of tank inside one of the tunnels

Bunker

Observation post

Observation post

MG position

Flak position?

Flak position?

Entrance to main command bunker

Inside main command bunker

Main command bunker

Inside main command bunker

Inside main command bunker

On guard (Ehlert, Max / CC-BY-SA / 1943)

Command bunker (Ehlert, Max / CC-BY-SA / 1943)

Inside main command bunker

12 years worh of “Wireless world”

Loran timer set instructions manual

Inside main command bunker

Command bunker

Bunker and road leading up to the site of one of the 28cm SKL/45 canons

SKL/45 (Photo: Ehlert, Max / CC-BY-SA / 1943)

Bunker at the site of one of the 28cm SKL/45 canons

Bunker at the site of one of the 28cm SKL/45 canons

500Kg part of the 28cm SKL/45 canon that exploded in the accident after the war

Bunker next to the site of one of the 28cm SKL/45 canons. Reused by local farmers

Bunker with big hole in the wall

Bunker entrence

Ammunition bunker. (Photo: Ehlert, Max / CC-BY-SA / 1943)

Ammunisjonsbunker med skinne i taket for løftetalje.