List of bunkers in Essen

The list of bunkers in Essen contains preserved and no longer existing bunkers in what is now the area of ​​the city of Essen .

Around 1300 air raid protection systems are listed in the city's tunnel atlas, of which around 300 are still accessible and are regularly checked by experts from the Office for Roads and Traffic and the responsible state and federal authorities. Of the once 27 high-rise bunkers, twelve are still there (as of 2015), some of them unused or converted into apartments, and some are listed . Most of the bunkers were built during the Second World War as part of the Führer Emergency Program , and a few were converted or rebuilt for civil protection during the Cold War .

list

Surname	District coordinates	Establishment	Number of places	Monument protection	comment	image
Hochbunker Körnerstraße	Altendorf 51 ° 27 '27.2 "  N , 6 ° 58' 34.9"  E	1941-1943	675	Monument No.  967 , registered on April 29, 2014	Erected as an eight-storey round bunker for 675 people for air protection as part of the immediate Führer program ordered in October 1940 . Later it was intended for civil defense with NBC protection for around 1500 people during the Cold War until 2011 . In December 2016, 90,000 euros from federal property to private auctioned in Cologne.
Bunker in Helenenstrasse	Altendorf 51 ° 27 ′ 40.3 "  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 52.6"  E	1940-1943	1150	Monument No.  970 , registered on July 10, 2015	Erected as part of the Führer emergency program for air protection ordered in October 1940 , area around 1420 m², built for 1150 people on six floors, it was the largest bunker that was built in Essen during the Second World War, modernized at the time of the Cold War , in early 2017 auctioned from federal property to a Dellwig building contractor
Bunker at Stapenhorststrasse	Altenessen -Nord 51 ° 30 ′ 31.9 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 22.4 ″  E			No	Hochbunker has an observer post on the roof. Used today, among other things, for cellular antennas
Hochbunker Grünbruch	Altenessen -South 51 ° 29 ′ 39.9 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 30.6 ″  E			No	Rebuilt into a residential building around 2004.
Bunker Jahnstrasse	Bochold 51 ° 28 '18.6 "  N , 6 ° 58' 5.1"  E			No	Released around 2006
Bunker Wolfsbankstrasse	Bochold 51 ° 28 ′ 27.5 "  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 34"  E			No	Converted to a residential building around 2008.
Weidkamp underground bunker	Borbeck center 51 ° 29 '16.4 "  N , 6 ° 57' 13.3"  E			No	Deep bunker on the former Krupp tank building site
Deep bunker Dionysius Church	Borbeck center 51 ° 28 ′ 27.9 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 59.5 ″  E		400	No	Deep bunker under the Dionysius Church, which, however, would not have offered any protection from air raids, as it was then only covered with a thin layer of earth.
Hochbunker Richtstraße	Frintrop 51 ° 29 '1.7 "  N , 6 ° 54" 38.1 "  O			No	Conversion as a residential building.
Deep bunker vocational college west	Frohnhausen 51 ° 27 '10.7 "  N , 6 ° 58' 53.4"  E	1939-1941	500	No	One floor of the partly two-story air raid shelter, which served the population, not just the school, is accessible from the school.
Hochbunker Frohnhauser Strasse	Frohnhausen 51 ° 26 '56.5 "  N , 6 ° 57' 14.9"  E			No	Five-storey tower bunker with observer posts, today serves, among other things, as a location for cell phone antennas and is partly used as a rehearsal room for musicians.
Humboldtstrasse high bunker	Fulerum 51 ° 25 ′ 40 ″  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 42 ″  E			No	Converted to a residential building.
Gerscheder Strasse underground bunker	Gerschede 51 ° 28 ′ 59.6 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 18.4 ″  E	1943	5000	No	A steep staircase led into a main corridor several hundred meters long, from which the side tunnel led off. After the entrance was walled up, the underground bunker was filled in in 2014.
Bunker Hatzper Strasse	Braid 51 ° 25 ′ 12.1 ″  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 36.1 ″  E	1939/1940		No	The bunker was spared from bomb hits. Since the end of the war it has been used by an electrical company and converted into an office building between 2014 and 2016.
Feldhaushof high bunker	Huttrop 51 ° 27 '12.7 "  N , 7 ° 2' 42.9"  E			No	Converted to a residential building.
Moltkeviertel tunnel bunker	Huttrop 51 ° 26 '34.8 "  N , 7 ° 1' 28.5"  E	1943	3000	No	Built in 1943 by the Todt Organization , according to the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks, it was around 650 meters long tubular bunker with 2.50 meters wide corridors, is about nine to 13 meters deep in the Moltkewiese area in the Moltkeviertel , and had the purpose of breaking the pressure waves of a nearby bomb , was backfilled in August 2016 due to the dilapidated condition. The picture shows a locked entrance.
Bunker Arenbergstrasse	Karnap 51 ° 31 ′ 5.2 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 22.9 ″  E			No	Today it is used, among other things, as a rehearsal room for musicians and a location for cell phone antennas, which is federally owned
Bunker Joseph-Oertgen-Weg	Katernberg 51 ° 30 '2.8 "  N , 7 ° 3' 2.9"  E			No	Converted to a private house and company building
Hochbunker Am Bilstein	Kettwig 51 ° 21 ′ 47.6 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 55.8 ″  E		525	No	between the streets Am Bilstein and An der Seilerei ; The 700 m² bunker will be converted into five apartments in 2018,
Bunker Corneliusstrasse	Kettwig 51 ° 21 ′ 53.9 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 16.5 ″  E	1942	446	No	On a 345 square meter property, it has a usable area of ​​640 square meters.
Krupp M2 factory bunker	North quarter 51 ° 28 ′ 16 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 21 ″  E			No	The underground bunker served as a plant air raid shelter for the Krupp locomotive and wagon construction factory and was located under the administration wing , which was connected to the M2 assembly hall to the northeast. The entire complex was laid down at the end of 2015 / beginning of 2016 as part of the urban development project Krupp-Gürtel .
Krupp cast steel factory bunker	North quarter 51 ° 27 ′ 52.1 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 20 ″  E			No	Bunker in the area of ​​the former Krupp cast steel factory on Pferdebahnstraße / Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard, today part of the substation
Iron Hand bunker	East Quarter 51 ° 27 '35.7 "  N , 7 ° 1' 22.7"  E	1922-1926	560	Monument No.  962 , registered on April 27, 1995	Was last modernized in 1983 for civil defense with a new NBC protective ventilation system. Today serves partly as a training site for the nearby Essen professional fire brigade.
Hochbunker Oberstrasse	Rellinghausen 51 ° 25 '27.4 "  N , 7 ° 2' 26.1"  E			No	Two-storey bunker with a floor area of ​​around 300 square meters and pointed gables, laid down in 1994 and replaced by a new residential building.
Hochbunker Frintroper Straße	Schönebeck 51 ° 27 ′ 47.1 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 54.2 ″  E	1940-1941	250	Monument No.  968 , registered on May 19, 2014	Erected as a six-storey tower bunker with observer posts for air raid protection as part of the emergency guide program for 250 people, today it is used, among other things, as a location for cell phone antennas, which is federally owned
Underground bunker at the Meisenburg	Schuir 51 ° 23 ′ 39.2 "  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 3.2"  E			No	Located under the former Stinnes villa, it protected the company archive. This tunnel bunker has concrete vaults, is 30 meters deep and 300 meters long.
Willy-Brandt-Platz underground bunker	City center 51 ° 27 ′ 10.7 ″  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 53.4 ″  E			No	Entrance in front of the main entrance of the Hotel Handelshof .
Hindenburgstrasse underground bunker	City center 51 ° 27 ′ 15.2 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 22.8 ″  E		2200	No	at number 35 in the parking garage
Central station nuclear bunker	City center 51 ° 27 ′ 7.7 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 54.5 ″  E	Early 1960s		No	Bunker under the DB high-rise, which was demolished in 2017, now serves as the foundation for a new hotel. In the event of a war in the Cold War, he was to maintain the railway infrastructure as far as possible with the command post .
Pass road underground bunker	Steele 51 ° 26 '50.7 "  N , 7 ° 4' 23.9"  E		3000	No	The bunker is also called Laurentiusbunker because it is located under the Laurentiusfriedhof west of the St. Laurentius Church .
High bunker Kyffhäuserstraße	Stoppenberg 51 ° 28 ′ 37.3 "  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 36.1"  E			No	Converted to a residential building
Bunker Bassinstrasse	Southeast Quarter 51 ° 27 ′ 10.3 ″  N , 7 ° 1 ′ 45.4 ″  E	1942/1943	869	No	Bunker floor area around 975 m², usable area around 720 m², two-storey, two stairwells, three entrances; in federal property, after an unsuccessful auction attempt in summer 2017, new auction date in December 2017, minimum bid: 159,000 euros
Underground bunker Berliner Platz	West Quarter 51 ° 27 ′ 8.2 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 48.5 ″  E	1988		No	Built as a nuclear shelter during the Cold War , access in the underground car park of the Employment Agency
Krupp Kronenberg factory bunker	West Quarter 51 ° 27 ′ 24 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 2.6 ″  E	1930s	450	No	The underground bunker served as a factory air raid shelter for the Krupp cast steel factory and was located under a tank workshop in the area of ​​the parts of the Kronenberg workers' colony that had been laid down for this purpose . It was removed in 2011 and the Kronenberg Center shopping center opened on the site in 2013 .
Seminarstrasse underground bunker	Huttrop 51 ° 26 '38.9 "  N , 7 ° 2' 40"  E	1930s		No	The entrance was closed in 2015 as a result of construction work.
Hovescheidtstrasse underground bunker	Huttrop 51 ° 26 '34.7 "  N , 7 ° 3' 10.3"  E			No	Entrance to the underground bunker Hovescheidtstrasse.
Böcklinstrasse underground bunker	Holsterhausen 51 ° 26 ′ 21.7 "  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 18.3"  E			No	Entrance to the underground bunker of the Holsterhausen Municipal Comprehensive School . The bunker is used inactive as a warehouse. A staircase leads down to a green room. The system has a large ventilation system and a complex emergency exit system, but only a small sanitary facility.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Essen.de - air raid shelter ; accessed on September 23, 2017
2. ↑ Martin Bach (Lower Monument Authority of the City of Essen): Hochbunker in Essen
3. ↑ Derwesten.de of December 12, 2016: Bunker in Altendorf sold for 90,000 euros ; accessed on December 14, 2016
4. ^ Dellwiger building contractor buys World War II bunker ; in: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of March 1, 2017; Retrieved November 9, 2017
5. ↑ DerWesten.de of January 13, 2014: Bunker from World War II in Gerschede is filled ; Retrieved December 19, 2015
6. ↑ DerWesten.de of August 10, 2016: Backfilling of leaky bunker in Moltkeviertel is ongoing
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} history traces, interest group for historical military, industrial and traffic structures: civil defense systems database ; accessed on March 30, 2016
8. ↑ Kettwig bunker is being converted into apartments ; In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung from January 31, 2018
9. ^ University of Duisburg Essen: Project draft aquarium in the bunker ; Retrieved December 19, 2015
10. ↑ Derwesten.de of September 27, 2015: Forgotten bunker under the Stinnes Villa ; Retrieved December 19, 2015
11. ^ Gerd Niewerth: On the way in the old nuclear bunker at Essen main station ; In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of April 3, 2019
12. ↑ DerWesten.de from November 7, 2014: Riddle about an old bunker - a search for clues in Steele ; Retrieved December 19, 2015
13. ^ Bunker will be auctioned , in: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung from June 25, 2017; Retrieved November 9, 2017
14. ↑ Hochbunker in the southeast quarter again in the auction , in: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung from November 8, 2017; Retrieved November 9, 2017
15. ↑ Archäologische RuhrZeiten: Air raid protection system of the former Friedr. Krupp Gussstahlfabrik on Haedenkampstrasse ; Retrieved December 18, 2015

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