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Tarnbunker Neumühl

Preserved Westwall bunker in Neumühl with a rebuilt camouflage superstructure, serving as an information and remembrance site.

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The Tarnbunker Neumühl is a Regelbau 10a of the Westwall, built in 1938 on the edge of Neumühl. A year later it received a camouflage superstructure in the form of a habitable attic, so that it would blend into the village scene. In 1939/1940 it served as a command post; in the second half of the war, many Neumühl residents sought shelter here from air raids.

After the war the bunker was not blown up, because the attic was lived in; instead, prisoners of war filled it with concrete and rubble from demolished installations. In 2007/2008 the attic was torn down, although heritage protection had been in force since 2005; an approved demolition of the entire structure was never carried out. Between 2012 and 2015, volunteers removed the concrete fill again.

Since 2017 a friends' association has looked after the structure. Donation-funded construction phases brought access, leveling of the ground, the reconstructed roof structure, an external staircase and grounding; the interior fit-out was completed in May 2025 and the camouflage superstructure was opened. It serves as a communication and information center, meant to recall the burden fortification work placed on the civilian population, and to show the present-day importance of the western fortifications for nature and heritage conservation and for civic education.

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Intact 1938 Westwall Regelbau 10a bunker
Rebuilt camouflage superstructure in the form of an attic
Information and communication center in the attic
Guided tours of the western fortifications and Maginot Line in the Kehl–Strasbourg area on request
Large-format mural on the bunker