Crisbecq Battery

Crisbecq Battery
Part of Atlantic Wall
Normandy, France
Crisbecq battery
A 210 mm Škoda gun in its casemate
Kriegsmarine Ensign
Coordinates49°28′48″N 1°17′48″W / 49.48°N 1.296667°W / 49.48; -1.296667
Site history
Built1941 (1941)
Built byOrganisation Todt
In use1944
MaterialsConcrete and steel
Battles/warsInvasion of Normandy
Garrison information
Past
commanders
Walter Ohmsen
GarrisonKriegsmarine Marine-Artillerie-Abteilung 260
Occupants~400

The Crisbecq Battery (sometimes called Marcouf Battery) was a German World War II artillery battery constructed by the Todt Organization near the French village of Saint-Marcouf in the department of Manche in the north-east of Cotentin peninsula in Normandy. It formed a part of Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall coastal fortifications. The main armament were three Czechoslovakian 21 cm Kanone 39 canons, two of which housed in heavily fortified casemates up to 10 feet thick of concrete. The battery, with a range of 27–33 kilometers (17–21 miles), could cover the beaches between Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue and Pointe du Hoc.

The battery engaged US ships on D-Day (6 June 1944) and was evacuated by the Germans on 11 June 1944 and took no further part in the Normandy landings.