Austrått Fort

The fort's centrepiece is a triple 28 cm SK C/34 (11-inch) gun turret from the German battleship Gneisenau, which was damaged in Kiel.

[1] Like its sister battery, the Fjell Fortress on Sotra Island near Bergen, a shaft was cut out of the rocks for the huge former Gneisenau battleship gun turret.

About 650 Yugoslavian slave laborers, mostly Serbs (Partisans and Chetniks) worked under awful conditions on the tunnels and bunkers around the hill.

Today it is one of the most complete examples of a World War II German coastal battery extant.

In addition, the site still has its infantry defenses consisting of trenches and a recently renovated 4.7 cm Czech-made anti-tank gun in working condition.

Triple 28cm (11-inch) turret Caesar (2010).
Interior of triple 28cm turret from Gneisenau in MKB Ørlandet, also known as Austrått Fort, Norway (2011).