Poland “Maginota Line” over Warta

It is worth leaning over local stories and places where the communicative recorded interesting stories. Today, for you, we would like to present any small-scale combat shelters built in the spring of 1939 along the Warta-Goplo Canal.

How was the Polish “Maginota Line” created? Our state realized that the rejection of the German “proposals” in the spring of 1939 led to a direct war with the western neighbour. During this period, engineering-saper teams began to make a choice of places suitable for the deployment of future shelters for the Polish army. Due to the fact that the main defensive line for the “Poznań” Army was to pass through, among others, the Warta-Gopło Canal area, the creation of combat shelters in this area seemed a natural decision.

On the Skulsk-Mogilno section, tactical work was directed by Lt. Col. Bogdan Geisler. Captain Francis Sapiński took over method management on the Rudzica-Skulsk section[1].

By the time of memorable September 1939, 7 shelters were built on this section along the canal, which had been established since 1937.[2]. The surrounding Polish civilian population joined the construction of the shelters. As the witnesses of those events mentioned, the shelters were not raging, and the concrete was inactive wet[3].

These protections were not utilized during the war activities during the 1939 Polish campaign. For a short period of time, the National Defence troops constituting the ariergard of the Poznań Army stopped on their line. The hope of trying to halt German troops on this episode was manifested, among others, by the fact that soldiers along with the civilian population began cutting cane on the east shore of the Noteta in the area of the Transport Farm to improve the visibility of the prefield position[4].

Although more than 80 years have passed since these events, it is worth to halt at these monuments of dedication and work for the Homeland of our ancestors. There are thousands of specified places in Poland, and learning local past is the best warrant that the young generation will love their homeland, for which their ancestors were willing to give their lives.

[1]W. Rezmer, Army Poznań 1939, Warsaw 1992, p. 69.

[2]W. Nadolny, Przedmekty „Kło” [in:] Explorer, 12/2011, pp. 62-66.

[3]R. Bąkowski, P. Kurzawa, W. Nadolny, Light combat shelters in the "Poznań" Army's action strip in 1939 – results of field investigation [in:] Fortress, No. 3-4/98, pp. 85-95.

[4]W. She pressed, D. Roszak, Shamotulski Battalion of National Defence, Shamotula 2002, p. 50.

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