Austrått Fort
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Austrått Fort is a former German fortress with a giant five story canon tower. This construction had an important strategic position at the entrance to the Trondheim Fjord. Today, the facility is a museum. A guided tour of just under an hour, will take you underground, where you can discover ammunition stores, engine rooms, and barracks built to house several hundred soldiers, just as the Germans left them in 1945. The German triple-turret canon from the German battleship Gneisenau is trained down the mountain. The canon is a national fortification and was erected by the occupiers between 1942 and 1944. Around 70 Yugoslav prisoners of war died during the construction of the fort. And just as many died fleeing Austrått prison camp. Today, this is the only remaining triple turret of its kind in the world. Austrått fort consists of close quarter defences, generators, emergency generators, water cooling room, boiler room, barracks, a mess, toilets, ammunitions stores, corridors, and other storage rooms. At the entrance there is a shooting hole with a steel hatch. The canon and its platform are in good condition, all the machine parts are preserved and are in theory functional, but they were welded in connection with decommissioning early in the 1990s.