TITLE:
The WW II German Stützpunkt on the Menez-Hom (Finistère-FR)
AUTHORS:
Giancarlo T. Tomezzoli
KEYWORDS:
Menez-Hom, Stützpunkt, FuMB, Wolga, Atlantic Wall, Crozon, Finistère
JOURNAL NAME:
Archaeological Discovery,
Vol.5 No.4,
October
20,
2017
ABSTRACT: The Menez-Hom hill placed between the Brest harbour and the Douarnenez bay, although only about 350 m height, dominates the surrounding territory. Therefore, during the WW II the German Wehrmacht decided to establish on its top a Stützpunkt (support point) for controlling and eventually impeding access to the Crozon peninsula to foreign troops. The available literature gives only fragmentary information about it but the mention of a Gerät (device— radar?) belonging to the FuMB686 Wolga and the presence of rests of a Seetakt radar on the Menez-Hom hill at the end of the war make the location of the Stützpunkt Wolga at the top of the Menez-Hom hill highly probable. The visit of the Stützpunkt site took place on 27/08/2010 and allowed to identify many of its components and to determine its organization.