Infantry blockhouse K-S 18 - Dolni Borikovice, Czech Republic - Photos Then and Now on Waymarking.com

The infantry block K-S 18 (code name "U kostela") represents a very robust and strongly equipped combat installation. It is a two- sided block with two protection wings, two armored cupolas and a machine gun turret. Most of the scheduled weapons were already operationally ready in 1938, but the prototype of the machine gun .turret was still in a production hall of the Witkowitz ironworks. After its completion the infantry block would have had the following armament: 2 mixed weapons in the two combat compartments, 3 twin-machine guns (in the two combat compartments and in the turret), and a total of 6 light machine guns in 4 auxiliary embrasures and in 2 armored cupolas.
Besides combat compartments and entrances to the armored combat compartments (turret and the 2 armored cupolas) there are some ammunition dumps in the block, furthermore a food storage, operation center, telephone connections, readiness room, filter room and sanitary facilities.
During the German occupation this installation also served as target of shelling tests. Here also some tests of prototypes of the Rochling subcaliber concrete shells took place - one of the developed secret weapons which was never used in World War II.
During this time the block lost its cupolas and the embrasures of the main armament. The destruction initiated by the removal of raw material and building material continued after the war when a municipal rubbish dump developed here.

The coordinates corresponds to the place where photography was taken.

Year photo was taken: 1938

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