Special ammunition dump Golf
SAS Golf | |||
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country | Germany | ||
local community | Hohenstein | ||
Coordinates : | 48 ° 21 ' N , 9 ° 17' E | ||
Opened | 1965 | ||
owner | Private | ||
Formerly stationed units | |||
84th Field Artillery Detachment | |||
Location of the special ammunition dump Golf in Baden-Württemberg |
The special ammunition dump Golf , also known as Hohenstein special ammunition dump , was a depot for nuclear weapons , about one kilometer south of the then Eberhard Finckh barracks, about 16 kilometers south of the town of Reutlingen in Baden-Württemberg in the district of the same name .
The special ammunition depot was located in a wooded area between the town of Trochtelfingen and today's Meidelstetten district of the Hohenstein community . It was built in the mid-1960s.
history
The nuclear warheads for the rocket artillery battalion 250 stationed in Großengstingen were stored : W52 nuclear warhead for the Sergeant short-range missile from 1965 and W70 nuclear warhead for the Lance short-range missile from 1975.
The inner, approximately 15 hectare large restricted area of the camp ("J-camp") was guarded by American soldiers of the 84th Field Artillery Detachment. It had two bunkers for the warheads, a heating station and a workshop and was fortified with triple fencing, anti-tank barriers and two watchtowers. The outer restricted area ("G-Lager") was guarded by German soldiers from the 5th battery of the 250 rocket artillery battalion.
In the 1980s, as a result of various actions by the peace movement against the military presence on site, the nuclear warhead warehouse moved into the focus of a nationwide, and at times also international, public. A substantial part of the not only nuclear- pacifist , but in a broader sense fundamentally anti - militarist- oriented actions in the vicinity of the special ammunition depot marked the transition of the social mass movement against the NATO double decision from the phase of appeals and demonstrations to the phase of non-violent action or action from 1981/82 . of civil disobedience in what was then the Federal Republic ( West Germany ), for example in the form of long-term sit - ins in front of military facilities (cf. protest actions of the peace movement in the 1980s ).
The camp was cleared in the fall of 1991. Colonel Ullrich Schröter, commander of Artillery Command 2, officially confirmed on March 22, 1993 that nuclear warheads had been stored. The land was acquired by the Federal Property Administration at the end of 1993 and later bought back by the Hohenstein community and the city of Trochtelfingen. The former special ammunition depot, Golf , is currently being used by a civil company to store commercial explosives such as those used in quarries.
See also
literature
- Joachim Lenk : Soldiers, warheads and live ammunition , Wiedemann-Verlag Münsingen 2006, ISBN 3-9810687-2-6 .
Web links
- Subpage of the special ammunition dump Golf on the web portal of Joachim Lenk's book about the Eberhard Finckh barracks
- Photo series with photos of the former Gulf nuclear weapons camp (30 photos from 2002/03 - approx. A decade after the nuclear warheads were withdrawn)