Udkiggen på Albuen - Look-Out Towers on Waymarking.com

Dan:
Lige siden 1915 har kystudkigstjenesten haft forskellige små udkigsposter rundt omkring.
I dag er der kun et få antal tilbage.

Albuens kystudkig Startede under første verdenskrig. Her holdte man øje med fjendtlige skibe der sejlede gennem Langelandsbæltet. Samtidig holdte man øje med de fly der fløj hen over.
Alt det blev nøje noteret med dato, tid, retning og hvilken type det var.

Under anden verdenskrig var man også på plads i udkiggen. Her holdte man i stor stil øje med hvor de tyske mine fartøjer sejlede og hvilken vej man blev guidet igennem uden om minerne.

Da den kolde krig brød ud var man igen på plads i udkiggen.
Her var man på vagt 2 mand af gangen.
Men vejret på albuen er ikke altid lige godt. Så til tider skete det at man måtte strække sin vagt til det igen var blevet stille vejr.

Hverdagen under den kolde krig var stille og rolig. Man registrede de skibe der sejlede forbi og rapporterede til Korsør hvis de sejlede Nord på. Og til Gedser hvis det sejlede mod Syd - Syd Øst.
Når man rapporterede om et skib sagde man om det var et man skulle holde øje med eller om det bare kunne sejle uden videre opsyn.

Var det et skib man skulle holde øje med eller ikke havde set før vurderede SOK om man skulle lade et foto fly se nærmer på skibet.

En stille dag i udkiggen på Albuen opdagede man at der på dækket af et russisk fragtskib stod missiler.
Straks fik man sendt besked til SOK som sendte det videre til Nato, som kontaktede Washington.

På ganske kort tid fik man skibe på vandet og fly i luften for at stoppe det fremrykkende skib.
Skibet blev stoppet og vendte om.

Efter den kolde krig skete der ikke meget videre på Albuen.
Fra 1951 til 2000 var der fast bemanding på udkiggen.
I 1997 nedlagde man Posten og rykkede den til Ydø. Hvor man parkere i dag.
Her var stationen bemandet i 3 år, end til stationen blev fjernstyret fra Bornholm i 2000.

Eng:
Ever since 1915, the coastal lookout service had various small lookouts around .
Today there are only a few number back .

Elbow coast looking Started during World War . Here kept an eye on enemy ships that sailed through Baltic sea. At the same time kept an eye on the planes flew over .
Everything was carefully noted the date, time , direction and what type it was.

During World War II were also in place in the outlook . Here held it in great style track of where the German mining vessels sailed and which way you were guided through around the mines.

As the cold war broke out was to turn in place in the outlook .
Here were on guard 2 man at a time.
But the weather on the elbow is not always good. So sometimes it happened that we had to stretch his watch to it again was calm weather .

Daily life during the Cold War was quiet and calm. You auspices enter the ships that sailed by and reported to Korsor if they sailed North on . And to Gedser if it sailed towards South - South East of England.
When we reported on the ship said it was one you had to watch out or it could just sail without further supervision.

Was it a ship you should watch for or had not seen before estimated SOK whether to let a photo plane view approaching the ship.

A quiet day on lookout on the elbow was discovered that on the deck of a Russian cargo ship stood missiles.
Immediately got you sent a message to Admiral who sent it on to NATO , who contacted Washington.

In a short time you got ships on the water and fly in the air to stop the advancing ship.
The ship was stopped and turned back.

After the Cold War , there was not much further on her elbow .
From 1951 to 2000 , there was solid manning the lookout .
In 1997, was closed down Posten and moved it to Ydø . Where to park today.
Here was the station manned in 3 years than the station was remote from Bornholm in 2000.

Height of Look-Out Tower in feet: 9.00 Difficulty: Opening times and fees: Always open Free Parking Area: N 54° 47.482 E 010° 58.656

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