Muralt Walls Arnemuiden

Muraltmuur is the name of a wall on top of a dike which served as alternative and cheap dike raising, consisting of three or four horizontal concrete slabs, in between approximately one meter high concrete pillars.

They are an invention of Jhr. ir R.R.L. Muralt the Head of the Technical Department of the Water Protection Organization from 1903 to 1913. Fhe flood of 1906 gave him the idea to to raise the dikes in a cheap way, thereby keeping the embankment itself intact. Until 1935, 120 km of these Muralt-walls were constructed, almost one third of the Zeeland dikes, especially in South- Beveland and Schouwen. They proved unable to stop the water in 1953 and there are many walls demolished but near Stp. Scharnhorst ׀׀, they are still present.

In the vicinity of the Sloe-causeway and Stp. Scharnhorst ׀׀ these were used by the German rifle and machine gunners as cover during the Allied attack on the Causeway in 1944.

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• Text: Mia van den Berg / Stichting Bunkerbehoud
• Photos: Mia van den Berg