Börfink command bunker

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The command bunker Börfink , called Bunker Erwin , is a formerly secret underground command system of NATO near Börfink near Birkenfeld in the Hunsrück ( Rhineland-Palatinate ) on the Ruppelstein hill in the Black Forest high forest , from which the air surveillance of Central Europe was controlled during the Cold War . Various military installations were operated in the area for this purpose. On the Ruppelstein there is a still used military telecommunications system of the Bundeswehr in oneMilitary security area . The above-ground buildings formerly used by the military on the site near Börfink are now used by employees of the Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park , while a data center is operated in the bunker near Börfink by a private company according to media reports. Some of the former air surveillance systems on the Erbeskopf are still operated by the Bundeswehr. The 2nd Air Force Division in the Heinrich Hertz barracks in Birkenfeld was disbanded in 2013. At telecommunication objects are u. a. still on the Kahlheid the telecommunications tower Kahlheid . Until it was sold in 2012, there was a telecommunications facility with a telecommunications tower on the Sandkopf near the town of Züsch for the 86th unit of the United States Air Force , which was stationed at Ramstein Air Base . The US Air Force buildings above ground on Sandkopf were removed. The telecommunications tower only has a few telecommunications systems and is registered with the Federal Network Agency .

history

Construction of the facility began on April 1, 1960 and took about three years. In 1963 the bunker was initially put into trial operation for one year. On June 1, 1964, the plant was finally commissioned by the German and US air forces. The bunker was originally designed for 250 soldiers, but was manned by over 300 soldiers during general service and by up to 750 soldiers during exercises and was therefore also rebuilt several times. In 1973 the facility became a NATO command bunker when it was shared by NATO. From 1975 a two-year conversion phase followed, during which operations were stopped. In 1977 the facility was put back into operation as the Primary War Headquarters Allied Forces Central Region . Until 1994, the site was home to the joint war headquarters AFCENT / AIRCENT, radar command department 21, a national satellite-based enemy intelligence center of the US armed forces and a branch of the intelligence agency of the German armed forces . A new energy bunker was built between 1990 and 1994, but it was never put into operation. With the end of the Cold War, however, the "Erwin" bunker became militarily superfluous. In 1994 the facility was handed over to the Birkenfeld staff battalion and in 1996 to the Army Command in Koblenz . In 2002 the bunker was finally shut down and handed over to the site administration in Idar-Oberstein for sale and sold in 2011.

Individual evidence

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Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′ 56.3 "  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 52.5"  E