Agricultural Complex South of Mikoszewo

Situated south of Mikoszewo, this sprawling agricultural complex reveals clear signs of heavy damage, though some of the structures are still standing. The facility looks to be divided into two distinct though connected sections - one containing massive farming structures and the other having individual homes and apartment buildings for the many workers who must have worked there. It's surrounded on all sides by open fields with one road that enters, bisects the facility, and exits out through the other side.

The facility is heavily damaged, close to being on par with the destruction seen elsewhere along the Vistula. Multiple buildings, particularly the workers' residences in the southern half, are wrecked completely beyond use. The northern half however, comprising several massive agricultural structures, still retain a few intact buildings. The entire complex is surrounded by a low earthen mound, topped with layered rows of picketed concertina wire. Reused sandbags, as well as solid rubble and debris scrounged from the ravaged living quarters, are piled into fighting positions dug into the berm. Viewed through binoculars, some of the intact buildings are strengthened as well, fortified with sandbags or shielded by mounds of earth and logs. None of it is out of the ordinary considering the close proximity to the Vistula Defense Line. Surely this location had some role in the defensive system.

The land between the complex and the Szkarpawa river has been recently tilled and planted. The sheer size of that sort of effort would require either a large workforce or machinery and the means to maintain it. Within the middle of the farmland, there is an inner track some 50m wide, which wraps around the the complex (like a circular line within a larger circle). Along this narrow band are evenly spaced markers. The knee-high signs warn of landmines.


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