Air raid shelter (Wiesbaden)
The air raid shelter (also known as the Wehrmacht bunker ) at Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 8 in Wiesbaden is one of the three large urban air raid protection systems for civil defense of the Wiesbaden population from the Second World War . The monumental concrete cube with a front central entrance was built during the Second World War as a bunker with officially 647 shelter places. Today it is a listed building and acts as a memorial for the history of Wiesbaden , especially the heavy air raids in October 1944 and February 1945. The building site, set back from the street, right next to the Ministry of Finance, which was built from 1958 to 1960, was built on a sports ground.
The other two large, civilian air protection areas were on Coulinstrasse in an extensive tunnel system and in an underground bunker at the springs on Kaiser-Friedrich-Platz . These were quickly overcrowded.
description
The facility has four floors with 28 rooms. The outer walls are around two meters thick and made of reinforced concrete.
history
The bunker was built in 1939. In the last days of the Second World War, the bunker served as the command post for the Wiesbaden city commanders . After the city commandant left Wiesbaden in the early morning hours of March 28, 1945, the white flag was hoisted on the bunker to surrender to the American troops . The speculation that the city commandant also declared the surrender here cannot be proven. After the war, the bunker served, among other things, as a furniture store. In 1982 he was included in the civil protection program.
Todays use
Today the bunker serves as a storage room and archive for the Ministry of Finance , as well as for the State Museum as a depot, e.g. for excavation finds. A change in use as a rehearsal room for music bands had to be discarded in 2009 due to the structural condition and the escape route situation. As before, however, the bunker can also be reactivated for civil defense with an appropriate lead time.
literature
- Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - Wiesbaden I.2 - City expansion within the Ringstrasse , Theiss-Verlag
Individual evidence
- ↑ Printed matter 16/6572 - List of shelters (§ 7 ZSG) in the Darmstadt regional council ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Three Wiesbaden bunkers serve different purposes today - Wiesbadener Kurier from February 2, 2009 ( Memento from February 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b No hard rock in the bunker - Frankfurter Rundschau from May 5, 2009
Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 34.4 " N , 8 ° 14 ′ 47.1" E