Bunker Wodanstrasse

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The Bunker Wodanstraße (also Wodan-Bunker ) is a former underground rescue control center from the time of the Second World War , with a total area of ​​720 m², in the southern part of Nuremberg , in which at that time u. a. Treatment rooms, an operating room for emergency operations and deliveries. It is one of the 18 remaining of the original 70 bunker systems in Nuremberg and is located directly below an Aral filling station that was built later . The bunker is currently still earmarked for disaster control and is operated by the city of Nuremberg. It is single-storey and has two entrances and exits, one of which is on the premises of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund , the other in an open space next to the gas station. This entrance is built over with a corrugated iron hut. The facility is not in use and cannot be visited, with the exception of a one-off opening in January 2011.

history

Originally, the bunker was set up as a rescue control center and treatment center during the evacuations due to the bombing raids on Germany and especially on Nuremberg, which should enable the injured and wounded to be cared for safely. Immediately after the end of the war, it was used as accommodation for the children of war refugees who had been picked up and at times also as a doctor's office.

From 1963, the facility was integrated into the disaster control and equipped as an NBC protection bunker for around 680 people in the event of a feared Third World War . For a time it should also offer a safe place to stay in the event of an atomic bomb attack . It was planned that the few survivors (it would have been far less than 1% of the Nuremberg population in this bunker) would have to sit in the narrow hallways and rooms for around sixteen hours and sleep for eight hours so that the limited capacity of the chairs and beds could have been fully utilized . Then there were the barely adequate fourteen toilets. Electricity generation, air filtering and water pumping were to be ensured by diesel generators whose fuel supply would have lasted a maximum of fourteen days.

This bunker is one of the last fully equipped bunkers and is therefore a rare relic of the past. For financial reasons, it is planned to close this bunker as well. The Förderverein Nürnberger Felsengänge eV would like to maintain at least one facility and make it permanently accessible to the public. Of the twenty disaster control systems in the city of Nuremberg, two belong to the federal government , two to the Free State of Bavaria and ten to the city. The rest are in private hands and are u. a. used as underground parking. In the Nuremberg City Council, various factions are therefore campaigning for the preservation of a shelter. You have submitted a motion for the topic to be discussed in the responsible committee. The FDP councilor Christiane Alberternst said "... the ABC bunkers represent an important chapter in German and European, yes, world history ...". Even today they are an impressive and clear example of the effects the nuclear armament of the former block systems had on the population and what consequences a nuclear war would have had, which is why future generations should also have the opportunity to learn history not only from textbooks, but rather to gain your own impressions in places like such shelters.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 720 sqm for 680 citizens
  2. ^ Civil defense systems in Nuremberg
  3. ↑ 70 years of building bunkers in Nuremberg - special tour of the Wodanbunker 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.offenes-presseportal.de  
  4. ↑ Nuremberg types of shelters and degree of protection
  5. ↑ http://www.nordbayern.de/seltener-blick-in-den-atombunker-1.408623 A rare look into the atomic bunker; Nürnberger Nachrichten of December 30, 2010
  6. ↑ What will happen to the nuclear bunkers ?

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '14.2 "  N , 11 ° 5' 41.9"  E