Katzenhagen
Katzenhagen is a deserted area in the Neetzka district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The dairy is recorded as a residential area between Cölpin , Kublank and Neetzka around 1700 . In 1969 the dairy and the farms were still part of Neetzka. In 1970 the place was razed and rebuilt for the purpose of a military air traffic control center.
Geographical location
Katzenhagen is 2.1 km north-west of Neetzka, 2.5 km to Kublank in the north-east and three kilometers to Cölpin in the south-west. The place has been uninhabited since 1970, apparently nothing of Katzenhagen can be seen anymore, the former ponds have been drained. Rudiments of the razed farmhouses are still there as remains of the foundations. A large single-storey monolithic main bunker and several side bunkers of the NVA are located in the subsoil of the village .
history
Katzenhagen was drawn in around 1700 on the Mecklenburg-Strelitzer map under the Low German name Kattenhagen . In 1845 the place had 34 inhabitants, two farms and a lumber yard. Agriculture and forestry were practiced in the village before 1969. The settlement was protected from westerly winds by a high forest, the field location was open to the east and south. Ponds and wells provided water for the place. The residents were historically assigned to the Protestant parish in Neetzka. The community was independent until July 1, 1950, after which it was incorporated into the village of Neetzka. With the construction of the railway line 1122 in 1866/67, from Bützow to Strasburg , the place became an island. Later on, Katzenhagen could only be reached via a level crossing. The high forest of the state forest Rowa cordoned off the place to the southwest. This remote location is probably the reason that a military auxiliary message center (HNZ) for command posts / command posts of the NVA was built here from 1969 . The road from Cölpin to Kublank was relocated so that the settlement was no longer on the connecting route. The public level crossing with the keeper's house was rebuilt. The residents were relocated to nearby Neetzka in 1969. After that, for strategic reasons, Katzenhagen was no longer shown on maps of the GDR, but continued to exist as the rear command post (RFS) of the NVA, the 3rd LVD, until it was handed over to the Bundeswehr in 1990. The Bundeswehr dissolved this RFS site and the use of the bunker facility was ended in 2008. Today only an orphaned transformer station and a hunting high seat are left on the site. The non-public level crossing is locked.
- Former military buildings of the NVA
Until 1990, Katzenhagen had a helicopter landing pad (No. 3302) with a lawn take-off and landing area of 10,000 square meters. The object was under the control of the 3rd Air Defense Division of the Air Force / Air Defense (LSK / LV) of the East German NVA. The underground bunker, a former RFS, was built in 1970 and has an area of 336 square meters and a ceiling height of 3.3 meters. Smaller and double bunkers are distributed underground around the main bunker. The bunkers were declared for re-use as bat winter quarters in a nature conservation compensation measure by Deutsche Bahn AG (plan shelling 2016).
literature
- Johann Friedrich Kratzsch: The latest and most thorough alphabetical lexicon of all localities in the German federal states. Department II, Volume 1, Eduard Zimmermann Verlag, Naumburg 1845.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Friedrich Kratzsch: The newest and most thorough alphabetical lexicon of all the localities of the German federal states . In: II. Department . tape 1 . Eduard Zimmermann, Naumburg 1845.
- ^ Jens Herbach: Guide bunker , Katzenhagen, RFS-33. Sperrgebiet.eu, 2020, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Katzenhagen: NVA helicopter landing site 3302. 2020, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Planning approval in accordance with § 18 AEG in conjunction with § 74 Paragraph 6 VwVfG for the project "Replacement construction of a culvert in railway km 205.074 near Neubrandenburg on the route 1122 Lübeck - Strasburg" , Federal Railway Office , April 20, 2017.