Bunker BS - 8 BHřbitov (Graveyard), located in Bratislava part called Petržalka - Kopčany in a field near the border with Austria at the border crossing Berg, is part of the defense system built in the year 1930 near the border of the former Czechoslovakia. System consisting of a number of concrete bunkers should have served as a defense line against any attack of Nazi Germany.
Currently Bunker BS - 8 is particularly attractive probe in Czechoslovak history. Volunteers who are dedicated to save the territory of bunkers around Bratislava proved an interesting way to prepare exposition in the long neglected building.
A number of activities for schools take place here in order to present the history of fortifications and conditions in former Czechoslovakia including the memories of the time of the Iron Curtain. You do not know who was the mysterious King of the Danube? Answer on this question awaits you at Bunker BS - 8 Hřbitov near Petržalkas Kopčianska street.
Guides have prepared a walk throu the bunker, during which you will certainly not fall asleep. Form of presentation is really very much alive, for a moment as if you have become one of the defenders of our territory.
The bunker includes anti-tank ditch and mock tank in the adjacent field, previously serving to deceive the enemy.
In the immediate vicinity of the bunker is situated recently restored military cemetery Kopčany dedicated to the fallen in the First World Wa . Cemetery resembles the American military cemeteries. It is particularly impressive place with its 331 white crosses.
Buried here are Autrian and Hunharian soldiers and nine other nationalities alltogether. If you wait until the night, spirit of the legendary general who is watching over his troops may apper, as evidenced by a legend.
Bunker can be a good tip for a trip, whether on foot or by bike. Access to the bunker BS - 8 Hřbitov in Petržalka and nearby cemetery is poorly defined. A bike road leads to the place, but you can arrive by car as well and walk on foot through the fields, located near the border with Austria. You can navigate from the above mock brick made tank in the middle of the field, which is located near the bunker.