{"id":3394,"date":"2017-07-18T02:22:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T23:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2018-10-03T19:48:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T16:48:28","slug":"sturmbock-stellung-aka-jarama-fortifications-enontekio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/sturmbock-stellung-aka-jarama-fortifications-enontekio\/","title":{"rendered":"Sturmbock-Stellung aka. J\u00e4r\u00e4m\u00e4 Fortification in Enonteki\u00f6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World War Second left its footprint all over the European Arctic, and one manifestation can be found in Enonteki\u00f6, where the J\u00e4r\u00e4m\u00e4 Fortification &#8211; aka. the Sturmbock-Stellung has been built. Today, an open-air museum keeps the remainders of the J\u00e4r\u00e4m\u00e4 Fortification accessible and in shape, allowing to get a view on this&nbsp; impressive sight.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When in 1944 Finland and the Soviet Union agreed on a peace treaty, the German army retreated towards north, where they aimed at securing their mines, such as the nickel mines on the Kola peninsula. As part of securing the arm of Finland, the German army built the J\u00e4r\u00e4m\u00e4 Fortifications, or Sturmbock-Stellung in German, near Karesuvantu, in the Enonteki\u00f6 municipality. Mainly prisoners of war were used to dig trenches in the solid granite bed rock. In this area the bed rock belongs to the oldest on this planet, with an estimated age of 2.7 billion years (Planet earth is about 4 billion years old.). The fortification were built for 12.000 German soldiers and was used from October 1944 until January 1945, when the German soldiers retreated the area.<\/p>\n<p>Today a big part of the J\u00e4r\u00e4m\u00e4 Fortification has been turned into an open-air museum. Some bunkers have been rebuilt and some of the trenches are being kept in shape. While the <a href=\"https:\/\/jaramade.blogspot.fi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">museum<\/a> is only open during summer, a visit really pays off. It is quite astonishing to see the trenches in the granite bed rock of the J\u00e4r\u00e4m\u00e4 Fortification.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World War Second left its footprint all over the European Arctic, and one manifestation can be found in Enonteki\u00f6, where the J\u00e4r\u00e4m\u00e4 Fortification &#8211; aka. the Sturmbock-Stellung has been built. Today, an open-air museum keeps the remainders of the J\u00e4r\u00e4m\u00e4 Fortification accessible and in shape, allowing to get a view on this&nbsp; impressive sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,10],"tags":[18,34],"class_list":["post-3394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-galleries","category-history","category-traveling","tag-lapland","tag-enontekio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4479,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions\/4479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-zojer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}