Heckeshorn high bunker
The Heckeshorn bunker in Berlin is located on the site of the former Reich Air Defense School in Heckeshorn . The bunker consists of six floors and was built in 1943 according to plans by the architect Eduard Jobst Siedler of the Technical University of Berlin . The telecommunications bunker has outer walls and ceilings made of reinforced concrete up to four meters thick .
history
The building was erected as a command bunker for the staff of the " Air Force Commander-in-Chief ". Here the entire air defense was coordinated within a radius of about 250 kilometers around Berlin, i.e. H. the use of fighter pilots and flak . The order to switch on the air raid sirens came from the bunker . In addition, there was the transmission point of the wire radio for the announcement of the air situation reports to the population. Shortly before the end of the battle for Berlin , the entire command of the Wehrmacht ( OKW / OKH ) was evacuated from the bunker in Wünsdorf to Heckeshorn.
After the occupation by the US military , the wire radio facilities were used from February 1946 as a transmission station for wire radio in the American sector (DIAS), the forerunner of RIAS . Until 1948, the required studio was in the Fernamt Berlin on Winterfeldtstrasse ( Schöneberg ).
From November 1948 the "Department for Post and Telecommunications of the Magistrate of Greater Berlin " or " Senate Department for Post and Telecommunications " (SVPF - from 1951, an organization Deutsche Bundespost Berlin did not exist at any time. See also: Oberpostdirektion - Berlin ) the bunker as a radio transmission point (FSSt) for the telephone connections to West Germany . A total of three guyed lattice masts were erected in Heckeshorn for the broadcast to the Torfhaus in the Upper Harz Mountains , which is almost 200 km away . The reception point in Berlin consisted of three identical masts, which had been erected in the Grunewald southwest of the Olympic Stadium in the ruins of the military technology faculty planned during the Nazi era , where the Teufelsberg is today. From autumn 1951, these connections ran via the new Berlin 2 radio link east of the Wannsee lido to Höhbeck near Gartow, only 135 km away . In March 1959, the third radio relay station was added on the Schäferberg , which broadcast again in the direction of Torfhaus.
From 1967 the bunker served as a pathology and morgue for the Heckeshorn Lung Clinic .
In 1985 the bunker was expanded to become an operating room bunker and an " emergency hospital " for 400 patients.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Günter Erler: Telephoning in Berlin. 50 years of Fernamt Winterfeldtstrasse. Series: Berliner Forum , Press and Information Office of the State of Berlin, 1979
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 59.4 " N , 13 ° 9 ′ 41.5" E