Møvig with a view to Flekk

Møvig with a view to Flekkerøy by gormjarl The fort was constructed between 1941 and 1944 by the German navy. Together with four other coastal batteries, it formed a part of the Kristiansand Artillery Group.
Together with its sister battery at Hanstholm in Denmark, Møvik Fort was built to obstruct Allied naval forces by blocking the Skagerrak strait and the seaways to Eastern Norway, the Kattegatt Bay, the Baltic Sea and the Baltic region for the allied naval forces.
Only a field, ten nautical miles wide, in the Skagerrak could not be covered by the guns of these facilities. This field was theAdolf Hitler worked personally for the barrier strategy and the decision about the fortress in Hanstholm was made in May 1940.
In May 1941, two of the guns in Hanstholm were in place and on the Norwegian side preparatory work started.

For a few years after the war, Møvik fort was an operating Norwegian fortress. In 1953 it became part of Kristiansand fortress.
On April 20, 1959 the fort was closed and two of the guns and the foundations of the fourth were scrapped. wikipedia https://flic.kr/p/2kdYxNw