Himmelsberg tunnel

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Himmelsberg tunnel

place Zweibrücken
Architectural style Basement systems
Construction year from the second half of the 18th century
Floor space 2,360 m²
Coordinates 49 ° 14 '45.7 "  N , 7 ° 22' 9.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 14 '45.7 "  N , 7 ° 22' 9.3"  E
Himmelsbergstollen (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Himmelsberg tunnel

The Himmelsberg tunnel is a cellar system carved into the sandstone on Himmelsberg in the southern part of the city ​​center of Zweibrücken .

history

The excavation work was probably started in the 16th century; the system was then continuously enlarged up to 2,360 m². Historians see the emergence of the cellar in connection with the fortification line created by Sébastien de Vauban to protect the new French eastern border around 1680. Traces of gunpowder discovered during an investigation in the 1980s and the working methods used to work the sandstone lead to the chronological classification.

During the Second World War , the gallery served the Zweibrücken population as an air raid shelter. The city architect Gustav Groß from Zweibrücken had the largely forgotten facility expanded in 1944 by means of landfills and installations in the basement as an air defense structure for the population and an alternative seat for city administration and supply and with a small hospital ward, which was installed during the air raid on Zweibrücken on March 14, 1945 largely protected the population, which had been reduced after evacuations.

In the 1980s, Karlwerner Kaiser, who was then head of the Office for Monument Preservation in Speyer, compiled information on the cellar system and published it under the title "The large rock cellars in the Himmelsberg zu Zweibrücken".

The Himmelsberg tunnel is currently not open to the public.

literature

  • Karlwerner Kaiser: "The big rock cellars in Himmelsberg zu Zweibrücken" (article, after 1985)

Web links

  • Himmelsberg tunnel . Description on the website of the city of Zweibrücken. In:zweibruecken.de. Retrieved October 11, 2019.