The ministry offers more pre-war bunkers including an infantry blockhouse.

Prague - The Ministry of Defense is selling more parts of the pre-war border fortifications. In the offer published today, there are two dozen so-called "řopíky," which are remnants of former small border fortresses, as well as one infantry bunker. Jiří Caletka from the Ministry of Defense's press department informed ČTK about this today. The minimum purchase price for all offered properties is 2.7 million crowns; in addition to the border fortifications, the office is also selling three smaller plots of land near Jindřichův Hradec.

The largest structure is the infantry bunker Jaroslav, located in the Náchod region between Sedloňov and Olešnice in the Orlické Mountains. It was built in 1938 as part of the heavy fortifications. In recent years, it has been cared for by the Friends of Fortifications Club in Náchod, which also allowed tours of it. The Ministry of Defense's real estate management department states that the minimum purchase price is 950,000 crowns. The two-story building is being sold together with the surrounding land.

"The club has disbanded; we couldn't afford it financially. We don't have the means to buy it," Jiří Čtvrtečka from the Friends of Fortifications Club in Náchod told ČTK today.

The remaining offered properties, the so-called řopíky, were part of the light fortifications. The ministry offers four in the Chomutov area in the cadastral territories of Vrskmaň, Otvice, and Krásná Lípa near Křimov. There are seven řopíky available in South Moravia, specifically six in the Znojmo region near Křídlůvek, Micmanic, and Oleksoviček, and one fortification near Sedlec by Mikulov. In Silesia, nine řopíky without land are being offered: two in the Karviná area near Zpupná Lhota and seven in the Opava area near Milostovic, Zlatníků, and Nový Dvůr.

The Defense Ministry repeatedly sheds unnecessary properties. The offers predominantly consist of land or bunkers from the First Republic era. The former fortifications of Czechoslovakia are still considered properties designated for national defense, and their management is therefore the responsibility of the Ministry of Defense. In 2005, the ministry decided that fortifications would primarily be transferred free of charge to the owners of the land beneath them. If they had no interest, they could be given free of charge to, for example, military history clubs or neighboring municipalities. Another option is their sale.

At the end of October last year, the ministry informed ČTK that it had sold 171 objects of Czechoslovak pre-war light fortifications thus far. In total, the Defense Ministry plans to settle approximately 800 řopíky, offering a quarter of them for sale, while the rest aims to transfer to new owners. The ministry is currently transferring or selling only bunkers declared unnecessary before March 2016. Other řopíky, which are gradually being geographically located, are taken over by the Office for the Representation of the State in Property Matters.