Hohenbrunn Army Ammunition Plant
The Heeresmunitionsanstalt Hohenbrunn ( MUNA for short ) is a 180 hectare military property in the Hohenbrunn and Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn districts in the south-eastern district of Munich .
history
In 1938 the National Socialists bought the forest on Hohenbrunner and Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunner Grund and built an ammunition factory, bunker, administration building and barracks there. At times up to 4,000 people were employed there. Around 700 to 800 of them were child or forced laborers , mainly from Russia and the Ukraine , but also French, Italians and Greeks.
After the Second World War, the US Army used the site as an ammunition depot and, from 1958, the Bundeswehr . In 2007 the communities of Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn and Hohenbrunn bought back what is now mostly forested land. There are still 120 above-ground bunkers on the site today . In 2011, the bones of a total of 21 six to ten year old children were excavated in a gravel pit on the site, who, according to the police, died in 1943 and were buried there in a mass grave.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Carina Lechner; Dirk Walter: Horror find: Children's bones discovered in a gravel pit. In: tz.de/Muenchen. September 30, 2011, accessed November 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Christina Hertel: Muna area is to become a recreation area. In: Sueddeutsche.de. October 25, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Christina Hertel: SZ series: Landmarks in the Munich district - historical explosives. In: Sueddeutsche.de. September 7, 2016, accessed November 5, 2019 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 16.6 ″ N , 11 ° 43 ′ 8.3 ″ E