Badger III

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The project Badger III was the planned underground relocation of a refinery of Fanto Werke AG from Pardubice in the German Broder railway tunnel in the unfinished railway line Brno-Deutschbrod . It belonged to the so-called Geilenberg program (mineral oil safety plan) ; the railway tunnel was given the code name "Star".

history

As a result of the outbreak of World War II , construction work on the new Brno – Deutschbrod railway line had to be stopped in 1939; the Deutschbroder railway tunnel also remained unfinished.

After the United States Army Air Forces had begun in May 1944 massive bombing of refineries and hydrogenation plants in the German Reich, which was created Geilenberg program , which in a mineral backup plan, the underground relocation of the war-important oil plants as well as the development and construction of new plants for Provided for fuel production. On August 24, 1944, the facilities of Fanto Werke AG in Pardubitz and Vacuum Oil AG in Kolín , located on protectorate territory , were severely damaged by air raids by the Fifteenth Air Force and put out of operation.

Work on the Dachs III project began at the end of 1944 . From the Deutschbroder railway tunnel ▼ ▼ , two underground rooms with a total area of ​​5000 m² were carved out, in which the refinery systems were to be housed. A brick air shaft ▼ was sunk in the fields near Riedelhof . A tunnel ▼ was excavated for drainage, which opened into the Šlapanka opposite the Deutschbrod train station below the hospital courtyard .

Since the facilities of the Fanto works in Pardubitz had been razed to three quarters of the ground by the second bombing of December 28, 1944 and the time of the completion of the U relocation was not foreseeable, they were built in front of the north portal of the tunnel on the Sázava near Termeshof two above-ground refineries ▼ ▼ .

At the end of the Second World War, work on the Dachs III project was canceled; the plant remained unfinished and never went into operation.

The 623 m long Havlíčkobrodský tunel ( Deutschbroder Railway Tunnel ) was completed in 1953; In the same year, the Brno – Havlíčkův Brod railway was put into operation .

Remnants of the two above-ground refineries, the covered air shaft and the drainage tunnel of the Dachs III facility are still visible. The two underground refinery rooms to which branches lead from the tunnel have also been preserved; However, they are not accessible due to the rail traffic on the main line .

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