Liebenau special ammunition depot

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Special ammunition depot Liebenau (Lower Saxony)
Liebenau special ammunition depot

Liebenau special ammunition depot
Location of the special ammunition depot in Lower Saxony

The special ammunition depot Liebenau is a former ammunition depot of the Bundeswehr, which was located about one kilometer west of the village of Liebenau in the district of Nienburg / Weser . During the Cold War , nuclear warheads were stored on the site where explosives and warfare agents were produced during World War II .

Use by the Bundeswehr

The special ammunition depot was built by the Bundeswehr in 1963 on the former site of the Karl der Eibia GmbH plant, where explosives were produced for the Wehrmacht from 1939 to 1945 . During the Cold War, nuclear warheads for the MGR-1 Honest John artillery missiles of the rocket artillery battalion 12 in the Clausewitz barracks in Nienburg-Langendamm , nuclear mines for the special blocking company 100 in Minden and atomic tube artillery shells for the 1 . Panzer division stored on the premises. The relevant associations practiced firing the grenades stored here four to five times a year.

The interior of the camp was guarded by the 32nd United States Army Field Artillery Detachment (USAFAD). The German guards provided the 5th battery of the rocket artillery battalion 12 until 1980, renamed the 4th battery in 1980, and finally from 1984 the escort battery 1, which was directly subordinate to the 1st artillery regiment. At least three American and 22 German soldiers guarded the camp around the clock .

Further use

In 1992 the camp was abandoned. The buildings were razed , the two bunkers remained. In 2014, Lower Saxony's Ministry of the Environment and IVG, as the management company for the site, agreed that EUR 20 million should be invested over the next few years to determine soil pollution in Liebenau and Dörverden . In 2019 it became known that private investors had bought the site for several million euros. Resistance to the sale is rising in the affected communities, as residents want to ensure that the disposal of warfare agents is carried out and monitored after the sale. It is believed that there are still warfare agents on the site, including arsenic warfare agents .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Liebenau - former nuclear weapons site, Germany. In: Atomwaffen AZ. 2009, accessed February 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Joern Spreen-Ledebur: Powder Factory Liebenau: Forest idyll with a murderous history. In: New Westphalian. June 5, 2018, accessed February 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Esther Nöggerath: The question about old armaments remains. In: Verden news. May 9, 2015, accessed February 28, 2019 .
  4. ^ Jörg Hilbert: Business with poisoned properties. In: Panorama 3 . NDR , February 27, 2019, accessed on February 28, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ 5.4 "  N , 9 ° 4 ′ 11.6"  E