Bernd Walz
The Bunkers - What Remains
The Bunkers - What Remains
© Bernd Walz 2025
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The bunkers on the North Sea beach near Løkken (Denmark) are tourist attractions. The bunkers with their 2 m thick walls are the remains of a German coastal battery that was built in 1943/44. The German Wehrmacht feared an Allied invasion near Løkken. Originally, the bunkers were located on top of the dunes, but these have eroded by around 90 m since 1945. - Now the bunkers are scattered across the beach as historical monsters, some partially or completely submerged in the sea. They have defied the sea, wind and weather for 80 years.
We experienced the bunkers without tourists in dense sea fog with which the sun fought. This created a bizarre atmosphere. The monsters seemed to float in the bright diffuse light, and the sometimes amusing graffiti dated the objects to the 'present times'. In my series of images, I tried to document this almost surreal situation.
The whole series has been published on Behance: www.behance.net/.../2262.../The-Bunkers-What-Remains
The Bunkers - What Remains
The Bunkers - What Remains
© Bernd Walz 2025
.
The bunkers on the North Sea beach near Løkken (Denmark) are tourist attractions. The bunkers with their 2 m thick walls are the remains of a German coastal battery that was built in 1943/44. The German Wehrmacht feared an Allied invasion near Løkken. Originally, the bunkers were located on top of the dunes, but these have eroded by around 90 m since 1945. - Now the bunkers are scattered across the beach as historical monsters, some partially or completely submerged in the sea. They have defied the sea, wind and weather for 80 years.
We experienced the bunkers without tourists in dense sea fog with which the sun fought. This created a bizarre atmosphere. The monsters seemed to float in the bright diffuse light, and the sometimes amusing graffiti dated the objects to the 'present times'. In my series of images, I tried to document this almost surreal situation.
The whole series has been published on Behance: www.behance.net/.../2262.../The-Bunkers-What-Remains