Historical-Technical Museum - Kummersdorf test site
The Kummersdorf Museum has been dealing with the history of the community of Kummersdorf-Gut (near Luckenwalde in Brandenburg ) and the associated former Kummersdorf Army Research Center since 1990 . In addition to the important local political work and nature conservation, this is a declared aim of the museum.
With the designation of an area of approx. 800 hectares in the middle of the largely fiscal Kummersdorfer Forest, the foundation stone was laid in 1875 for one of the most important military development and testing sites in Germany. With the advancing technical development an expansion of the area up to an order of magnitude of approx. 2500 ha was necessary.
Up until 1945, extensive series of tests on military equipment in the areas of artillery, army armament, motor vehicle testing, pioneer and railway pioneer technology, rocket development and testing as well as basic research in the field of atomic physics were carried out on this site. The subsequent use of the former barracks and test area by the Soviet armed forces and the expansion of this location as a training facility for logistics for the GSSD required the permanent declaration of the area as a restricted area. This made it possible to partially preserve numerous historical objects.
Only with the withdrawal of the CIS armed forces from Kummersdorf-Gut and Sperenberg in 1994 is it possible to carry out intensive military-historical research in the area of the former Kummersdorf Army Research Center.
literature
- Markus Pöhlmann , Christian Bauermeister, Evelyn Sommerer: The Kummersdorf Army Research Center. Firing range - secret place - memorial . FMVK eV / Museum Association of the State of Brandenburg eV, 2014
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Coordinates: 52 ° 5 ′ 56.7 " N , 13 ° 22 ′ 6.7" E