Operations center base room

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The operations center Basisraum ( EZB ) or colloquially "government bunker " is an Austrian bunker in Sankt Johann im Pongau in Salzburg .

History and function

The operations center was built in the years after 1977 during the Cold War based on the experience gained from the events surrounding the suppression of the Prague Spring .

Eurofighters are managed from the operations center

For this purpose, the armed forces built a five-storey bunker 300 m below the surface of the earth. In addition to the heart of the Goldhaube air defense system , rooms were planned in which both the Federal Government and the Federal President were to be accommodated in the event of a military threat. From there the business of government should continue to be carried out. In addition, rooms for the broadcasting systems of the ORF were planned.

The choice of location was based on geological and strategic considerations in connection with the concept of space defense on the area. In strategic terms, a threat from the former Eastern bloc was feared in the event of a defense . In this case, the east of the country, which is rather difficult to defend, should have been given up. Defense would have focused on the easier-to-defend mountains. In the event of a nuclear attack, the bunker facilities would have been protected from direct attack, which was not assumed to be so likely, as well as from radioactive fallout, making a government capable of action possible.

The bunker gained renewed importance as a possible escape route in the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.

For a long time the bunker was treated as one of the best-kept state secrets. It was only in the last few years that he became known to a wide public. In addition to the main use by the army, which worked at 250 people and its communication network IFmin is located inside the bunker, which has Confederation since 1982, a backup of the system data processing system of the Federal Chancellery established. This is the federal government's central fallback system , ZAS, which is connected to the Aconet with a point of presence . Other institutions such as the Austrian National Library have also set up data stores here. The backup system of the Visa Information System of the European Union is housed here. The search data of the Schengen Information System II are also stored here.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 25 years of backup bunkers in the mountain. fuzo-archiv.at, September 17, 2007.
  2. ^ SIS database in the government bunker. fuzo-archiv.at, November 14, 2011.

Coordinates: 47 ° 19 ′ 14 ″  N , 13 ° 11 ′ 12 ″  E