Bellersdorf special ammunition depot

Location of the special ammunition store and the Aartal barracks near Herborn

The Bellersdorf special ammunition depot was located on a wooded hill north of Mittenaar - Bellersdorf in the Lahn-Dill district . The special ammunition dump was built around 1965. Tactical nuclear weapons were stored in it, which were jointly guarded by a unit of the 557th US Army Artillery Group and German soldiers. At the same time, the Aartal barracks , where these soldiers were stationed, were built. The Americans withdrew in 1992, the German soldiers in 1993. After the buildings and towers were demolished, the area was initially used as the underground storage facility for the Lahn-Dill district. In 2015, the Mittenaar-Bellersdorf solar park was put into operation on part of the site.

• Photos from spring 2015
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  In the meantime it was used as an underground storage facility for the Lahn-Dill district

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  The entrance gate at the time of the earth camp

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  Last bunker in which nuclear weapons were once stored

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  Fencing with removed barbed or NATO wire

See also

• Nuclear weapons in Germany

Further nuclear weapons depots in Central Hesse:

• Alten-Buseck special ammunition depot
• Giessen special ammunition depot
• Nike firing position Albach

Web links

• Use at the Bellersdorf special ammunition depot. In: www.traditionsverband-aartalkaserne-herbornseelbach.de. Retrieved October 29, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Bellersdorf special weapons warehouse and the Aartal barracks in Herbornseelbach. In: www.geschichtsspuren.de. Retrieved October 29, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Bellersdorf - former nuclear weapons location, Germany. In: www.atomwaffena-z.info. Retrieved October 29, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Mittenaar-Bellersdorf solar park. In: www.7x7.de. Retrieved October 29, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 1.4 "  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 21.2"  E