Fighting City
Fighting City is a training ground for urban warfare , which the British military in Schanze forest in the Berlin local situation Ruhleben operated.
The origins of the site go back to 1855, when the Royal Military Shooting School Spandau started operations here. After the end of World War II , the site was taken over by the United Kingdom's armed forces and used for various military purposes. The part of the site on Charlottenburger Chaussee has served as a police school for the State of Berlin since 1970, while the rear, wooded part was expanded into a battle city by the British armed forces in the 1970s. The complex includes numerous residential buildings with up to five floors, a gas station, a supermarket, an underground car park, a sewerage system, several walls and ditches, two bridges and a road network.
After the Allies withdrew in 1994, the Fighting City was handed over to the Berlin police .
Since then, exercises by the special task force , the personal protection group , the Berlin fire brigade and the technical relief organization have taken place here. Occasionally the area is also used for filming.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Michael Grube: FTC - Fighting Town Center, Berlin . In: geschichtsspuren.de (formerly lostplaces.de), September 14, 2004
- ↑ Ruhlebener Schanzenwald with Murellenberg accessible again. Senate Department for Urban Development, November 28, 2007
- ↑ Birgit Eltzel: Jogging on the shooting range. A city forest has been created from a military training area . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 28, 2007
- ↑ A walk through the neighborhood on May 11, 2002 with City Councilor Martina Schmiedhofer: From the Pichelsberg subway station through the Murellenschlucht to the Ruhleben subway station. District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '16 " N , 13 ° 13' 44" E