Cologne Hole
As Cologne hole was used by the Allies a 32-kilometer-wide gap of flak - and headlight bar before the Ruhr area and the smaller defended area around Koblenz referred that during the Second World War was used by many Allied bomber formations as a loophole for the test flight to Germany. Cologne itself was defended by air defense positions in the Cologne green belt and on high bunkers in the city center.
Especially in the for the British Air Force heavy losses attack on Nuremberg on the night of 30 March 31, 1944, the Cologne hole played a significant role. German night fighters had gathered next to the Kölner Loch. Due to a course deviation, the RAF bomber stream flew directly towards the assembled and surprised night fighters. These were able to use the tame sow night hunting method in pack tactics .
Other meanings
The excavation pits of public buildings - often excavated for a long time but not or only slowly continued - are named in this way. This applied, for example, to the delayed construction of the ward building of the Cologne University Hospital (planning from 1963, foundation stone 1969, last buildings until 1974) and the construction of the Neumarkt cultural center (demolition of the art gallery in 2002, construction freeze, foundation stone 2005, completion at the end of 2010).
literature
- Martin Middlebrook: The night the bombers died. The attack on Nuremberg and its consequences for the aerial warfare ("The Nuremberg raid"). Ullstein publishing house, Frankfurt / M. 1979, ISBN 3-548-33005-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ from 100 years of Lindenburg (accessed Jan. 2011) ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ from Baunetz Köln (accessed January 2011)
