Badger IV
The Dachs IV project is a planned underground relocation of a hydrogenation plant in a gypsum quarry on the outskirts of Osterode am Harz . This U relocation was part of the so-called Geilenberg program (mineral oil safety plan) and the code name was "Basalt". As part of the mineral oil safeguarding plan, nine refining plants for project Dachs I to IX were planned. The aim of the project was to build a refinery from Rhenania-Ossag (today Royal Dutch Shell ) from Hamburg underground in the gypsum quarry. The construction of the tunnel system , which should be 17,000 m² in size, began in October 1944. The project was not completed.
literature
- Jürgen Müller: Dachs IV - the construction of the underground hydrogenation plant Dachs IV near Osterode in the Harz Mountains at the end of the Second World War. , 1st edition, paper plane , Clausthal-Zellerfeld, March 12, 2004, ISBN 3-89720-700-1 .
- Jürgen Müller: Many saw Easter or the end of the war in the tunnels . In: Osteroder Kreis-Anzeiger - Unter den Harze No. 999 . June 25, 1994 ( archiv-vegelahn.de [accessed September 6, 2018]).
Web links
- Project "Dachs IV" - planning on alpha64.de
- The tunnels of the "Dachs IV" project - 2005 on alpha64.de
- The remains of the U-relocation “Basalt” - Project “Dachs IV” from the Geilenberg program on 7grad.org
- Underground photos and information about the Basalt underground relocation ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- Report by a former forced laborer ( Memento from November 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Film U-Shift Dachs IV code name “Basalt” on youtube.com
Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 4.8 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 30.7 ″ E