Diana (relocation object)
Diana was the code name for the underground relocation of aircraft production at Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke to three railway tunnels on the Brno – Deutschbrod route at the end of the Second World War.
history
Since 1939, produced Wiener Neustadt Aircraft Works as a branch plant of Messerschmitt AG important war fighter planes type Messerschmitt Bf 109 . After the factory in Wiener Neustadt had increasingly become a main target of American bombing attacks from 1944, production was relocated to underground and above-ground objects between Carinthia and Moravia .
The construction of the new double-track railway line between Brno and Deutschbrod , also begun in 1939, had to be stopped because of the outbreak of the Second World War. At that time, however, the three railway tunnels west of Tischnowitz had already been completed .
At the end of summer 1944, production of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 G 10 was relocated to the three tunnels under the code name Diana .
- In the 633 m long A Loučský tunnel south of Unter Loutschka , the factory 1 49 ° 21 ′ 17 ″ N, 16 ° 21 ′ 40 ″ E , in which the fuselage of the aircraft was manufactured, was set up.
- The wings were produced in Plant 2, located in Tunnel B (213 m) Lubenský between Lubna and Neudorf near Gurein (east-southeast of Lubna) 49 ° 21 '8 "N, 16 ° 17' 4" E
- and Tunnel C Níhovský (531 m) between Nihof and Neudorf at Gurein (Nihof of north-northeast) 49 ° 20 '46 "N, 16 ° 16' 37" O was housed.
POW camps were set up in the vicinity of the tunnels. One of them was in Kutiny, it was later converted into a recreational property. The Diana property had between 6,000 and 8,000 employees. Around 850 aircraft were manufactured here until production was discontinued in mid-April 1945. Before the Red Army took Moravia, the Diana property was occupied by partisans. After 1945 the aircraft parts left behind were used for the construction of various Czechoslovak aircraft. One type of engine formed the basis for the development of the Avia S-199 .
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