Duneberg powder factory

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Workshop of the Düneberg powder factory

In the powder factory Düneberg (Dynamit AG Düneberg) on ​​the site in the Besenhorster Sand Mountains west of Geesthacht , raw powder from the dynamite factory Krümmel was processed into powder types and ballistically tested from 1935 to the beginning of April 1945 . During the Second World War , as in the Krümmel plant, in addition to the German workforce, foreign volunteer and forced laborers were employed.

history

Powder factory

On July 24, 1871, Kaiser Wilhelm I gave the Besenhorster Sandberge, a 20 hectare hilly dune area, to Otto von Bismarck . Max Duttenhofer built a powder factory on the leased site in 1876. In 1912, Bismarck sold the land to the from the Rottweil powder factory emerged United Köln-Rottweiler powder factories AG . After the First World War , this company (now under the company Köln-Rottweil AG ) switched to peace production. The plant was taken over by IG Farbenindustrie in 1925 , the workforce was dismissed in 1932 and the site was sold in 1934 to the Society for the Use of Chemical Products in Berlin.

DAG Düneberg

On January 1, 1935, Dynamit AG from Troisdorf took over the plant and began manufacturing powder. The factory with the old factory was expanded to include the Birke I, II, III and IV sections on Heuweg and the Kringel section behind the Marschbahn . Operations ceased after the bombing on April 7, 1945.

“Great emphasis was placed on camouflaging the site by planting the roofs. There were extensive secrecy regulations and security controls. "

Condition of the site after the plant was closed

After the Second World War, production and storage buildings were blown up. The ruins are overgrown by the pine forest of the Besenhorster sand mountains and Elbe sand meadows , but are still partially visible and accessible. At the beginning of the 1970s the industrial and commercial area Düneberg was created. Some of the buildings from that time still exist today, as do a few production and storage buildings.

Contemporary witnesses to Krümmel and Düneberg in the Second World War

The author Janine Ullrich conducted standardized interviews with Geesthachters and foreign contemporary witnesses. From this she derived the living and working conditions in the plants in Düneberg and Krümmel and described them in her book.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Janine Ullrich: Forced laborers and prisoners of war in Geesthacht taking into account DAG Dünebeg and Krümmel 1939-1945. Lit. Verl. Münster in Westfalen, Hamburg, Berlin, London 2001, ISBN 3-8258-5730-1 . In: Series of publications by the Geesthacht City Archives (StaG), Vol. 12, pp. 27–28.
  2. ↑ On the trail of the former powder factory. In: Bergedorfer Zeitung of August 12, 2009, last accessed on February 2, 2016
  3. ↑ a b Article Düneberger Pulverfabrik at [1] , found on search engine [2] under search term Pulverfabrik Düneberg
  4. ^ Strategic Air Attack on the German Powder, Explosives, and Propellants Industry. In Paragraph: Effects on Individual Plants: Dueneberg, Kruemmel, Tab 31 ( Memento from October 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 7, 2009.
  5. ^ W. Mittendorf: Geesthacht 25 years city. Printed by Wilhelm Matzke, Geesthacht 1949. p. 36.
  6. ↑ Timetable for the production of the Düneberg powder factory ( memento of November 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 17, 2010.
  7. ^ Bergedorfer Zeitung: Visit to the powder factory .
  8. ↑ Janine Ullrich: Forced laborers and prisoners of war in Geesthacht taking into account DAG Düneberg and Krümmel 1939–1945. Lit. Verl. Münster in Westfalen, Hamburg, Berlin, London 2001, ISBN 3-8258-5730-1 . In: Series of publications by the Geesthacht City Archives (StaG), Vol. 12.

literature

  • Karl Gruber (Hrsg.): The powder factory Düneberg. Local history and anecdotes of the Geesthacht districts of Besenhorst and Düneberg. Flügge, Geesthacht 1983, ISBN 3-923952-02-3 .
  • Janine Ullrich: Forced laborers and prisoners of war in Geesthacht, taking into account DAG Dünebeg and Krümmel 1939-1945. Lit Verlag, Münster et al. 2001, ISBN 3-8258-5730-1 ( publications of the Hamburg working group for regional history (HAR) 11 = series of publications by the Geesthacht city archive (StaG) 12).

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Coordinates: 53 ° 26 ′ 36 "  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 45"  E