FORT Saturday the 3rd june Sunday the 4th june 2023 4045
BANGSBO
Welcome to BANGSBO FORT 4045
This weekend, June 3rd to June 4th, you may enjoy a spectacular event, when you visit the “Bangsbo Fort 4045” event, which has been arranged by The Coastal Museum of Northern Jutland.
For two days the former German defensive structure Bangsbo Fort has been transferred into presenting World War 2 and especially D-Day (the battle of Normandy) in 1944.
The program for the 2-day event is filled with exciting experiences and live performances by reenactmentgroups from all over the country. There will be army vehicles, mobile guns, guided tours, lectures and a lot of other activities. The idea behind BANGSBO FORT 4045 is to make it a recurring yearly event the first weekend in June. So save the date in next year’s calendar.
We have been looking forward to opening the event this year and we wish you a pleasant experience. Enjoy!
Here are some good advice for your visit
» Use the centrefold map to find your way to the various groups and bunkers.
» White signboards will show the way to the areas and HQs of the various groups.
» Please respect the barricades in the various areas.
» When entering the bunkers please be aware of crooked steps, high doorsteps and low doorways.
» You are allowed to take pictures except towards the military area.
» Please notice the scheduled times for activities in addition there will be sporadic performances.
This year’s special ”THE DESTRUCTION SPECIALIST GROUP”
As something new, you can experience the resistance movement carry out an explosion on board the German steamer ”Lappentaucher”, which is docked at Frederikshavn Shipyard. Subsequently, a skirmish will occur between the sabotage group and the German guards, at the following times:
June 3rd 2023 at 12.00 og 14.30
June 4th 2023 at 12.00 og 14.30
”The destruction specialist group” is a little sabotage group operating from the illegal premises in the white stable building on top of the hills.
Participants : The sabotage group, German forces (Stützpunktgruppe Süd, Marine-Artillerie-Abteilung 509, Der Frontsoldat), Danish Special Effects Service. You will find more information about the historical events at our webpage. https://www.kystmuseet.dk/en/
Food and drinks
Barbecued sausages and draught beer will be sold from in the museum shop.
Programme - Saturday June 3rd
Main events of the day
10:00
10:15
Opening
Welcome speech by Per Frank Hansen, Chairman of the board for The Coastal Museum of Northern Jutland. After that Opening speech by Kurt Kirkedal Jensen, Member of Frederikshavn City Council.
10.45
Lecture by Henning Sørensen
”The escape routes from Northern Jutland to Sweden during World War 2” (The lecture is in danish)
11.00 11:30
Guided tour for children – starting from the grey cannon. (45 minutes)
Lecture by Niels Klingenberg Vistisen
“In a foreign country – two Danes in Canadian military service during WW2” (The lecture is in danish)
11:30
12:00
13:00
14:00
14:15 14:30
15:00 15.30
17:00
Cleaning the cannon in bunker 32
Sabotaging the steamship Lappentaucher
Guided tour – starting from the grey cannon (60 minutes)
Firing a 15 cm cannon (bunker 33)
Lecture by Henning Sørensen
”German refugees in Frederikshavn and Sæby after WW2”. (The lecture is in danish)
Sabotaging the steamship Lappentaucher
Lecture by Niels Klingenberg Vistisen
“In a foreign country – two Danes in Canadian military service during WW2” (The lecture is in danish)
Guided tour – starting from the grey cannon (60 minutes)
Thanks for today
During the day different sporadic activities will occur.
Programme - Sunday June 4th
Main events of the day
10:00
10.30
Opening
Lecture by Henning Sørensen
”The escape routes from Northern Jutland to Sweden during World War 2” (The lecture is in danish)
11:00
11:30
Guided tour for children – starting from the grey cannon. (45 minutes)
Lecture by Anders Tøttrup Nielsen:
”Victims of the Nazi Ideology” and “The Stumble Stone Project” (The lecture is in danish)
12:00
12:30
13:00
14:00
14:15 14:30
15:00
Sabotaging the steamship Lappentaucher
Führung auf Bangsbo Fort – Guided tour in the area with a German guide
Guided tour – starting from the grey cannon (60 minutes)
Firing a 15 cm cannon (bunker 33)
Lecture by Henning Sørensen
”German refugees in Frederikshavn and Sæby after WW2”. (The lecture is in danish)
Sabotaging the steamship Lappentaucher
Lecture by Anders Tøttrup Nielsen
”Victims of the Nazi Ideology” and “The Stumble Stone Project” (The lecture is in danish)
16:00
Thanks for today.
During the day different sporadic activities will occur.
Exhibition: German refugees andVictims of Nazism- 39 fates
DESCRIPTION OF THE PARTICIPANTS
Baker Company (American re-enactment with vehicles)
The group will participate Saturday and Sunday with 4 men and 4 American vehicles, jeep and heavy vehicles (a 40mm drawn cannon, Maxon Quad 12.7 tower on a platform, trailers) and also tents. The group will be located in the area north of command bunker 14. You can find more information about the group at : www.bakercompany.dk
WW2 Tommies
The group is a re-enactment organisation in Denmark making living history – about British units from 1914 to 1952. Their primary focus is World War 2. The members show many individual interests in connection with their activities and exhibitions – some are focused on uniforms and equipment while others are focused on vehicles and accessories.The group will participate Saturday and Sunday with 16 men and 6 to 8 vehicles. The group will be located in the area north of command bunker 14
Stützpunktgruppe Süd (German re-enactment group with motorcycle and side-car)
The group participates Saturday and Sunday with 8 to 10 men. The group sets up its headquarter in and by commando bunker 14 and has a unit in the fire control bunker 34. The group is one of the two local groups which often can be seen at Bangsbo Fort. More information about the group can be found at : www.facebook.com/SGSreenactment
DESCRIPTION OF THE PARTICIPANTS
”The destruction specialist group” (Sabotagegroup)
A local resistance group which will sabotage German interests during the event. The small group base their activities on real persons and real activities.
Marine - Artillerie - Abteilung 509 (German re-enactment group)
The group participates Saturday and Sunday with 2 men as a part of the regiment. The group is one of the two local groups which often can be seen at Bangsbo Fort. More information about the group can be found at : https://www.facebook.com/Marine-Artillerie-Abteilung-509
Der Frontsoldat (German re-enactment group)
This is a small group of 4 men quartered in personnel bunker 21. In spite of the small size of the group they can present quite an amount of equipment and weapons. All members will participate both days.
Home Guard Company Frederikshavn
The company participates Saturday and Sunday with 10 men, 2-4 vehicles and an exhibition pavilion set up in the area south east of the museum building. Read more about the company at : www.hjv.dk/oe/HVKFRH/Sider/default.aspx
Laura Bork
A novelty this year is a visit from Laura Bork. She is interested in the period 1940 -1945 and can do Victory rolls, a hairstyle that the women did to show their support. She participates with a pop up hair salon.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PARTICIPANTS
Bunker Group Løkken
The recently formed bunker group from Løkken present and tell about the bunkers in which they plan to establish a museum. The group is managed by the youngest bunker geek in Denmark, 14-year old Tristan. More info at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/837747224306059
Niels Klingenberg Vistisen (Lecture)
On Saturday the historian Niels Klingenberg Vistisen attends the event to tell about the book he has recently co-written with Jakob Kjærsgaard. Entitled “Under fremmed muld” (In a foreign country) it tells about a so far rather unnoticed chapter in WW2 where two Danes more or less by accident became involved in bloody fights. The two Danes – John Andreasen and Niels Wiesneck – both ended in the Canadian army and without knowing about the other they both fought in the offensive against Hitler’s forces – all the way from Normandy to Germany. Read more about the book at : https://turbine.dk/produkt/under-fremmed-muld/
Henning Sørensen (Lecture)
On Saturday and Sunday, Henning Sørensen will give a lecture about a dark chapter from the occupation, especially the German war refugees who filled our local community by the thousands. Henning Sørensen has an exhibition in bunker 15, dealing with the German refugees in Frederikshavn and Sæby 1945-1949.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PARTICIPANTS
Danish Special Effects Service
Since its start in 1988 this firm has been the main driving force in the creation of innovative special effects for film industry in Scandinavia but also internationally. It has distinguished itself in the design and construction of advanced large scale mechanical effects, action pyrotechnics, large scale explosions, gunfights with effects and stunts with fire and pyrotechnics. More info at www.dsfx.dk
Anders Tøttrup Nielsen (Lecture)
Anders Tøttrup Nielsen is a historian specializing in cultural heritage and since 2022 he has been a curator at The Coastal Museum of Northern Jutland. He has done research into “The Victims of Nazism” the last couple of years, resulting in laying out so-called Stolpersteine (stumbling blocks) in six different towns within the municipality of Frederikshavn. Stumbling blocks are small memorial stones the size of a cobble. They are placed in the pavement where a victim of Nazism last stayed – typically the victim’s home or workplace. They are the world’s biggest decentralized memorials with more than 90,000 stumbling blocks spread all over most of Europe.
The work with the victims of Nazism has turned into the exhibition “Victims of Nazism – 39 fates” at Bangsbo Fort. Here you will learn about the individual fates of different people. Men active in the resistance movement who died in concentration camps, fishermen and sailors whose ships hit mines or were torpedoed and many more, who became victims of Nazism during the German occupation of Denmark.
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