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ZUYDCOOTE BATTERY

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Au bout de la Digue Europlage., Plage de Leffrinckoucke (Dune Dewulf), 59495Leffrinckoucke, France
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2024
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The Battery of Zuydcoote is built in yellow bricks, which allows it to blend perfectly into the dunes.

Built in 1878, as an annex to the Fort des Dunes, its role was to protect Dunkirk from any attack coming from the East by sea and to watch over the passage to Zuydcoote. Like the Fort des Dunes, this one, also called "batterie de l'Est", was built in yellow bricks, which allowed it to blend in perfectly with the dunes. It was later completed with reinforced concrete buildings. First used by the Allies, it was quickly taken over by the Germans who integrated it into their coastal defense system, the Atlantic Wall.

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kermit057
Visited in june 2023
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Zuydcoote
La batterie de Zuydvcoote s'observe en se promenant le long de la plage entre Zuydcoote et Bray-Dunes.
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A Leffrincoucke, un artiste réussit un véritable coup d'éclat en recouvrant un bunker de miroirs en l'espace d'une nuit. Au petit matin, marcheurs, pêcheurs de crevettes et baigneurs à la fraîche furent stupéfaits de voir le soleil se refléter aux aurores, sur ce qui autrefois n'était à leur yeux, qu'un vulgaire bloc de béton qui s'affaissait dans le sable. Aujourd'hui le blockhaus de Leffrincoucke est devenu une véritable curiosité touristique, il est désormais l'un des monuments les plus photographié aux environs de Dunkerque.
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