OP-S 10 Křižovatka

Small club museum in an infantry bunker of the Czechoslovak fortifications near Velké Hoštice, with an exhibition on the fighting of 1945; visits by arrangement.

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About the museum

The infantry bunker OP-S 10 Křižovatka stands about one kilometre west of Velké Hoštice, at the junction of road I/56 and the railway line to Hlučín. It was built in the second half of the 1930s in heavy resistance class, with walls up to 275 cm thick and a roof 250 cm thick, as part of the Czechoslovak fortifications along the northern border. Its armament consisted of an anti-tank cannon with a heavy machine gun, a twin heavy machine gun and light machine guns.

Shortly after Munich the Germans devastated the bunker and removed its armoured elements. In spring 1945 the retreating German army hastily repaired it and prepared it for defence; during the capture of the bunker, an explosion of German ammunition occurred, and its traces are still visible today.

From the 1980s the bunker has been gradually restored; one of the armoured bells was installed, and a small museum was set up here. The exhibition presents the pre-war and wartime periods, including displays of equipment from the Wehrmacht, the Czechoslovak army and the Red Army. The museum is run by the Klub vojenské historie Hlučínsko – Hultschiner Ländchen (Military History Club Hlučínsko – Hultschiner Ländchen).

Highlights

infantry bunker from the 1930s with a small museum
exhibition on the Ostrava–Opava operation of 1945
traces of the 1945 explosion inside the building
equipment of the Wehrmacht, the Czechoslovak army and the Red Army

Permanent exhibition

Muzeum ostravsko-opavské operace 1945 – Small exhibition in the bunker on the pre-war and wartime periods, the fighting at the end of the Second World War and the equipment of the Wehrmacht, the Czechoslovak army and the Red Army.

Founded: 2014
Operated by: Klub vojenské historie Hlučínsko – Hultschiner Ländchen z. s.