Loccum air tank farm
The Loccum air tank farm was a tank farm in the Loccumer Heide in Lower Saxony. Construction began in 1939 after the start of the Second World War . The structures were built from 1940, but the fuel tanks no longer in the previously planned number. The task of the air tank farm was to produce and stockpile types of fuel and lubricants, mainly for the needs of the air force's flying units .
For the transport of goods there was an approximately 5 km long branch line from the Stadthagen – Stolzenau railway line ; the junction was just after the Münchehagen train station in the direction of Loccum.
In Ilvese was after 1940 at the Weser an oil port started construction. It would have been connected to the tank farm by a 6 km long pipeline. The harbor basin, protective dykes and individual company buildings have still been built, but a breakthrough to the Weser no longer took place.
In 1947 the fuel tanks were blown up by the British military. From 1960 the area was used by the Bundeswehr.
Since 1997, parts of the site are used civil, only the northern branch will continue as military training area used (u. A. As an outside landing site of the German Army Aviation School in Bückeburg ).
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Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ N , 9 ° 6 ′ 54 ″ E