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Defence lines in the Netherlands

Bunkers rarely stand alone. They belong to a line: a series of works meant to close off an area together. Below are the lines with objects on this map.

Atlantic WallBuilt: 1942 to 1945 · By: German

The coast, from Zeeland to the Wadden islands. Coastal batteries, radar stations and strongpoints around the ports.

232 objects on the map, 29 of them with a photograph

New Dutch Water LineBuilt: 1815, reinforced 1939 · By: Dutch

From Muiden to the Biesbosch. Nineteenth-century forts, joined in 1939 by hundreds of casemates and shelters.

360 objects on the map, 85 of them with a photograph

Grebbe LineBuilt: 1939 and 1940 · By: Dutch

From the Grebbeberg to the IJsselmeer. Three days of fighting here in May 1940.

123 objects on the map, 73 of them with a photograph

IJssel LineBuilt: 1940 and 1951 to 1968 · By: Dutch

Casemates along the IJssel from 1940, and in the Cold War weirs and bunkers meant to flood the river inland.

4 objects on the map, 1 of them with a photograph

Stelling van Amsterdam

7 objects on the map

How this grouping is made

An object is listed under a line only if OpenStreetMap records it as such, for instance in its name, a reference or the commissioning party. Location does not count: a bunker on the coast is not automatically Atlantikwall, because Dutch work from 1939 stands there too. The lists are therefore incomplete; what is there can be checked through the source link on every object.