The larger casemates and beachfront bunkers on the beautiful long, wide, sandy beach area at Wissant were destroyed in the 1990s.
There are still many large complexes which remain in front of and behind the high sand dunes to the east of the town, and near to the promenade in the centre you can find a section of anti-tank wall, a well buried personnel shelter, and a Schnabelstand – now the foundations of the town’s lifeguard building.
The beach to the south west of Wissant was once punctuated by a series of small Widerstandsnests and you can find evidence of four of these – Wn151 Brandenburg, Wn197 Baden, Wn196 Wurttemberg, and Wn195 Bayern.
The remaining buildings – all Schnabelstands for observation and beach defence – are only visible at low tide as they stand over 250 metres from the low dunes and scrubland.
Wn151 is the closest to the town and is little more than a pile of concrete blocks buried in the shifting sands.
Further east – and within a few hundred yards of each other – are the other three sites with Wn195 Bayern offering the largest chunk of concrete visible at present, although this semi-intact building can be covered by sand deposits in some years.
Again, Wn196 Wurttemberg and Wn197 Baden are barely visible at times, only edges of the roofs of the Schnabelstands were accessible in the autumn/winter of 2025.
West of Baden there are several areas where the remains of brick and block buildings can be found among the natural stone of the beach. Although these are difficult to attribute to any particular WW2 German site, mixed in with the brick are parts of concrete tetrahedron beach defences which once covered this area of sand.
In autumn 2025, several Czech hedgehog beach defences were unearthed, as were two concrete sea mines which were destroyed in a controlled explosion which caused the whole town to be cordoned off for a morning.