Ergansenteret, Bud

Army coastal battery 17/976 Bud, also called Ergan Kystfort, was a German coastal fort in Bud in Hustadvika municipality in Møre og Romsdal. The coastal fort was established by German troops in the period from April 1941 to 1945, as part of the Atlantic Wall, and was operational from the fall of 1942. The Atlantic Wall was to protect the continent and Norway from British, and eventually also US, attacks. Bud coastal fort was strategically important for the German occupation force to provide protection beyond Hustadvika and the shipping lane against the three cities of Ålesund, Molde and Kristiansund. The coastal fort was never in direct matches, but the Defense Authority was put to the test at the Allied invasion on June 6, 1944 in Normandy. At its highest, the coastal fort 63 meters above sea level.

Bud coastal fort was initially an army coastal battery, but was commanded in command of Viewed Seekommando Molde by protection against seafood. At land operations, the coastal fort was subject to the Infantry Division, which was stationed at Dombås. After the war, the facility was due, before the 1980s attention was devoted to attention and set up as a museum during the Romsdalsmuseet.