Tours
Battery Moltke Open Days
Welcome to Battery Moltke at Les Landes! We invite you to explore the underground tunnels and bunker complex that make up this impressive site. Knowledgeable members will be on hand to help you with your visit and the CIOS has also progressively opened up a large proportion of the Battery's sealed bunkers behind the Command Bunker which allows the interested visitor to explore them.
- Free for children
Duration: 1-2 hrs
More Information
Originally intended as Kriegsmarine (Naval) 'Marine Battery 1', armed with four modern quick-firing 15cm turreted guns which never arrived thanks to the Allied bombing raids in Europe, the site was handed over to the Army Coastal Artillery, armed with 155mm field guns, and named Batterie Moltke.
The CIOS maintain and restore the vast and impressive interconnected complex of Number 4 gun which consists of a personnel shelter, 2 ammunition bunkers, the underground gun emplacement and a temporary emplacement mounting a 15.5cm ex-French GPF field gun recovered from the base of nearby cliffs where it was dumped by the British Army in 1946! There is also ample information on various aspects of the Occupation for the interested visitor and knowledgeable members on hand to help you with your visit.
See if you can spot the hobnailed boot prints in the corridors!
- May:
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5th May 2024
14:00 - 17:00 - June:
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2nd June 2024
14:00 - 17:00 -
30th June 2024
14:00 - 17:00 - July:
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28th July 2024
14:00 - 17:00 - August:
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25th August 2024
14:00 - 14:00 - September:
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22nd September 2024
14:00 - 17:00
- Indoor
- Outdoor
- Family friendly
- Parking
Location
Battery Moltke
Route du Ouest
Jersey
St. Ouen
JE3 2AA
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Battery Moltke
Battery Moltke had intended to house four turreted 15cm Naval Artillery Guns that never arrived. The Germans instead used four 155mm Captured French Artillery guns “Canon de 155 Grande Puissance Filloux” (GPF) designated by the Germans as the “K 418(f)”.
Channel Islands Occupation Society (CIOS) Jersey
The Channel Islands Occupation Society are a non-political, voluntary organisation, dedicated to the preservation and recordal of all aspects of the German Occupation of Jersey during the Second World War. Founded in the early 1970s, the CIOS are a Jersey Registered Charity, entirely run by volunteers.
