ABC and disaster relief exercise area Tritolwerk
The ABC and disaster relief exercise area Tritolwerk , also for short: Tritolwerk , formerly (as a rail shunting station): Trifabrik , is a training area for the Austrian Armed Forces in Eggendorf in Lower Austria .
On the site of a former ammunition factory between Theresienfeld and Eggendorf, a training area for the armed forces was established in 1993.
The area north of the Wiener Neustadt-Ost airfield is approx. 36 hectares in size and, in addition to the main building with the former 42-meter-high water tower, also shows the debris from the destroyed factory and bunkers. These are therefore particularly suitable as training grounds for disaster relief units, as the most diverse deployment scenarios can be simulated easily. Earthquakes as well as radiation or chemical accidents can be displayed realistically.
Not only units of the armed forces practice, but also those of the blue light organizations can train here under realistic conditions. Regular visitors are, for example, the disaster relief service of the fire brigades or the rescue dog teams of the ÖRHB , the Arbeiter Samariterbund Austria and a few others. International troops also conduct exercises here. For example, the Eudrex 04 was largely held here, in which 1,800 helpers from 30 nations took part, or the EURAD10 in 2010, where 450 soldiers from Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Ireland, Slovenia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, participated.
history
The name Tritol comes from the explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT) produced. The ammunition factory was built from July 1916 during the First World War , but could not be completed until the last year of the war due to the severe winter of 1916/17 and the shortage of resources. The Tritol , like the Benzol in Sollenau , was a branch of the powder factory in Blumau . The industrial buildings were designed and built by the architect Bruno Bauer , who worked as a Landwehr engineer during the war .
The plant originally comprised 33 buildings equipped with toilet facilities, washrooms and cloakrooms. The buildings, mostly made of reinforced concrete, had weak flat roofs, an above-average number of wall openings (windows, doors) and were placed at a safe distance from each other with a view to transferring pressure in the event of an unwanted detonation.
The factory had its own power station, which the Tritolwerk still looks like today. It consists of a 42 meter high tower with a capacity of 500 m³, a coal silo and a workshop wing (lathe, forge, joinery). The coal silo could hold the load of 30 two-axle railroad cars. There are two two-story pavilions at the main entrance . The building on the left from the access road served as a foremen and fire station with a dining room and kitchen as well as shower and bath tubs for foremen and NCOs. The guards were also housed here. The building on the right was the administration and warehouse building. However, the factory was only in operation for a few months. After the fall of the Habsburg Monarchy , it stopped production.
The ammunition factory, whose production facilities were also located underground in several basements, was also in operation during the Second World War . After the end of the war it came under Soviet administration and was devastated. After the state treaty it became the property of the republic and was later used by the armed forces as an ammunition store.
It was not until the 1990s that the space was used for disaster exercises. In 2007 a new accommodation building was built. The numerous practice sites were provided with auxiliary and safety equipment. An infrastructure such as a hydrant network and electricity was laid across the entire area so that the practice area is one of the most modern of its kind in Europe.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Robert Coslop, Michael Barthou: The original plant . From: -: Tritolwerk - a "high tech rubble heap . In: bmlv.gv.at , ( Truppendienst , ZDB -ID 2237289-1 , episode 312, edition 6/2009), accessed on August 25, 2013.
- ↑ European Disaster Relief Exercise 04
- ↑ "European Advance 2010": Preparations are in full swing on the website of the Federal Army on March 26, 2010, accessed on October 17, 2010
- ^ Obereggendorf - Eggendorf community . In: Gerhard A. Stadler: The industrial legacy of Lower Austria. History - technology - architecture. Böhlau, Vienna ( inter alia ) 2006, ISBN 3-205-77460-4 , pp. 512-515. - online .
- ↑ Bauer, Bruno. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
Web links
- Darabos opens Tritolwerk
- Fire department lens
- Tritolwerk - a "high tech pile of rubble" in troop service
Coordinates: 47 ° 51 ′ 24 ″ N , 16 ° 16 ′ 41 ″ E