Landsberg-Leeder special ammunition depot

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Bunker entrances to the former special ammunition store before the solar systems were installed

The special ammunition depot Landsberg-Leeder (location ammunition defeat 653/1) near the village of Engratshofen in today's municipality of Fuchstal was a 19 hectare special ammunition depot in which weapons and ammunition for the mountain artillery regiment 8 and the tank battalion 224 of the 1st mountain division of the German armed forces as well as nuclear weapons of the US - Armed forces were housed. Nuclear shells and warheads for the Honest John short-range missile were stored in a separate and fenced-off area under the direction of the US Army . The 24th USAFAD (US Army Field Artillery Detachment), a subdivision of the 512th USAAG (US Army Artillery Group), was responsible for this area .

The camp and its bunkers were built from 1971 to 1972. The bunker facilities have not been used for nuclear weapons storage since the 1980s, and military use ended in 1998. In 2003 the site was sold. After lengthy discussion and controversial debates, the specially founded company Energiespeicher Fuchstal , which has owned the site under the name Special Area Renewable Energies Am Huttenbügel for some time, was granted permission to produce biogas through dry gasification in February 2007 . However, due to technical problems, this plan was abandoned for the time being. The development plan to be drawn up presented the community with the problem that the details of the development were kept secret for strategic reasons and that the buildings on the site were built without a building permit at the time and the bunkers and watchtowers have to be approved retrospectively.

The planned biogas plant should generate around 1.6 megawatts of electrical power in the final stage .

The site is currently being used for a solar system that is already in operation, but is being continuously expanded. On the area, which is still tightly fenced and inaccessible, a building was converted into a residential building, which is occupied by a caretaker.

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  1. ↑ Landsberg-Leeder former nuclear weapons site, Germany. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 11, 2010 ; Retrieved April 15, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.atomwaffena-z.info
  2. ↑ Landsberg-Leeder nuclear weapons depot. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 14, 2010 ; Retrieved April 15, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gerline.de
  3. ↑ Nuclear weapons depot of the rocket artillery battalions (1976). Retrieved April 15, 2010 .
  4. ↑ 24th USAFAD. Retrieved April 15, 2010 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ 57 ″  N , 10 ° 48 ′ 13 ″  E