Army ammunition teaching

Kampstüh with buildings of the former army ammunition facility

The Army Ammunition Establishment was an ammunition establishment located east of Lehr in the Kampstüh Forest on an area of ​​around 200 hectares . The beginnings go back to the year 1934, when the Free State of Braunschweig sold the property for the construction of the Army Ammunition Institute to the Army Administration. From 1936 on, ammunition for the Wehrmacht was produced there. By 1945 around 1200 prisoners of war were used as slave labor in the Army Ammunition Institute . On April 12, 1945, the army ammunition facility was captured by troops of the 5th US Armored Division ( 5th Armored Division ). From summer 1945 to February 1951 the site was occupied by the British occupying forces. Later, the site was used to house an ammunition store for the Bundeswehr and a parts store for Volkswagen AG .

From 1935 a siding branched off from the Schuntertal Railway south of the Lehr station, leading to the army ammunition facility. This approximately three-kilometer-long railway line was in operation until the early 1950s. In addition to transporting ammunition, the railway line was also used at times to transport workers from Braunschweig to the army ammunition facility. In 1989 the last tracks were dismantled. In 2019, a nature conservation association acquired the former railway site in order to leave it as a nature reserve.

A part of the site of the former army ammunition facility is now privately owned and is used for residential and commercial purposes. Some bunkers are still preserved and are used to protect bats. The natural forest reserve Kampstüh is under nature protection today.

literature

• Gudrun Fiedler , Hans-Ulrich Ludewig : Forced Labor and War Economy in the State of Braunschweig 1939–1945. Braunschweigischer Geschichtsverein (Ed.), Volume 39, Appelhans Verlag , Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 3-930292-78-5 .
• Dieter Lent : War events and losses in World War II. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Gerhard Schildt (ed.): The Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. A region looking back over the millennia . 2nd Edition. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2001, ISBN 3-930292-28-9 , pp. 1026 .
• Jörg Leuschner : Economy and social situation of the Free State of Braunschweig in the Third Reich (1933-1945). In: Jörg Leuschner, Karl Heinrich Kaufhold , Claudia Märtl (Hrsg.): The economic and social history of the Braunschweigisches Land from the Middle Ages to the present. Volume 2: Early Modern Era. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-13599-1 , p. 513.
• Uwe Otte et al .: Comrades, take the flags out! Everyday life under the Nazis and armaments production in teaching. On the history of the town and its muna. Apprenticeship 1990.

Web links

• The Army Ammunition Institute. In: Relics in Lower Saxony and Bremen.
• Bunker on bow ingenieure GmbH's website
• Dark chapter: ammunition production in apprenticeship. Wolfsburger_Allgemeine_Zeitung , May 14, 2017, accessed on May 14, 2017 . 
• Muna teaching on the website of the teaching base group

Individual evidence

1. ^ New exhibition: Soviet prisoners of war in apprenticeship. waz-online.de from April 12, 2018, accessed on April 12, 2018.
2. ^ Muna tour on April 9th, basisgruppelehre.wordpress.com, March 31st, 2016, accessed on April 15th, 2018.
3. ↑ Muna offers a tour against oblivion. In: Wolfsburger Nachrichten. Edition of June 18, 2019.
4. ↑ Dirk Fochler: Conservationists buy former embankment. In: Helmstedter Nachrichten. Edition of April 24, 2019.
5. ^ History

Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 32.9 ″  N , 10 ° 42 ′ 19.2 ″  E