Wehrmacht house in Someren-Heide

The Kammhuber Line was a German anti-aircraft defense system used against the Allied bombers from July 1940. This line was established by General Josef Kammhuber.

It ran from northern to southern Denmark and went from northern Germany via the Netherlands, Belgium and eastern France to the Swiss border. The first version of the Kammhuber Line consisted of a series of radar stations with overlapping radio coverage and built in three layers. Each station provided radar coverage of 32 km high (North-South) and 20 km wide (East-West). In addition, large Searchlights were placed along the entire line. Small houses were built near the searchlights to house the soldiers in the Kammhuber Line. Broadly speaking, they were the same houses across the board. The houses could differ from each other only in a few details. The houses had a size of about 8 x 5 meters and there were 4 rooms in them. You can talk about a hall, a kitchen, a living room and a bedroom. Usually 6-8 soldiers stayed in a Wehrmacht house. After the war, the houses were often used as emergency housing due to a housing shortage. Several families, often with many children, made use of such a Wehrmacht house.
After being used as a home, the houses have been given different uses. Many houses have since disappeared. Some are still inhabited and expanded. Sometimes they are even unrecognizable. Only a few have been preserved as ruins or have been restored.