Ośrodek Oporu Jastarnia
Open-air museum of Polish fortifications from 1939 with four heavy bunkers and an exhibition in the “Sabała” bunker, located in the forest and on the beach of the Hel Peninsula.
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About the museum
The Ośrodek Oporu Jastarnia (Jastarnia Resistance Centre) was built in 1939 across the middle of the Hel Peninsula to defend the land approach to the port and the village of Hel against a German attack. It consists of four heavy combat bunkers – “Sokół” (Falcon), “Sabała”, “Saragossa” and “Sęp” (Vulture) – as well as light bunkers, anti-infantry barbed wire and anti-tank obstacles. In September 1939 the fighting took place away from the line of bunkers, and the peninsula was held by detonating an explosive charge. Towards the end of the war the Germans partly made use of the bunkers.
After the war the facilities remained in defence plans, and only in the late 1970s were they abandoned. In 1999, by decision of the voivodeship monument conservator, the site was entered in the register of monuments, and in 2000 it was handed over to civil administration, which stopped the devastation. In 2004–2005 the bunkers were renovated, obstacles and trenches were rebuilt, and educational trails were laid out.
Since 2005 the Skansen Fortyfikacji II Rzeczypospolitej im. kontradmirała Włodzimierza Steyera (Open-Air Museum of Second Republic Fortifications, named after Rear Admiral Włodzimierz Steyer) has operated in the command bunker “Sabała”. The exhibition shows the equipment of soldiers and how Polish fortifications worked, and visitors receive a ticket in the form of a pass. The bunker “Sęp” lies on the beach, but its interior is filled with sand, and “Sokół” is not open to the public.
Highlights
- “Sabała” command bunker with a fortification exhibition and original fittings
- “Sęp” bunker on the beach by the open sea
- Four heavy combat bunkers from 1939
- Reconstructed anti-tank obstacles, barbed wire and trenches
- Two educational trails with information boards
Permanent exhibition
- Skansen Fortyfikacji II Rzeczypospolitej w schronie „Sabała” – Exhibition on the equipment of soldiers and the functioning of Polish fortifications in the heavy command bunker from 1939.
- Founded
- 2005
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| Good to know | Two educational trails have been prepared for visitors: one runs past all the fortification elements, and a second, shorter one only past the heaviest bunkers. The “Sokół” bunker is not open to the public, and the interior of the “Sęp” bunker is filled with sand. |
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