Himmelpfort special weapons warehouse
 Himmelpfort special weapons warehouse
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Blocked south gate of the northern storage bunker |
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| country | Germany | ||
| Status | dismantled, storage bunker preserved | ||
| local community | Himmelpfort , now Fürstenberg / Havel | ||
| Coordinates : | 53 ° 10 ' N , 13 ° 17' E | ||
| Opened | 1967/68 | ||
| owner | Oberhavel district | ||
Location of the Himmelpfort special weapons camp in Brandenburg |
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The special weapons cache Himmelpfort (also 4001 , spruce , Lychen II or Totschka called) was a camp for nuclear weapons of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany . It was created in 1967/68 in the Himmelpforter Heide forest and abandoned in 1990. The special weapons warehouse was located in the municipality of Himmelpfort , today a district of the city of Fürstenberg / Havel . The alternative name Lychen II refers to the neighboring town of Lychen .
history
The National People's Army (NVA) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was not equipped with nuclear weapons. In the event of war, however, it should receive nuclear warheads from the allied armed forces of the Soviet Union . The NVA had suitable delivery systems for these warheads. In January 1967, the governments of the GDR and the Soviet Union agreed to build two bunkered special weapons stores on the territory of the GDR, in which these warheads were to be kept by the Soviet Union.
The nuclear weapons for the 3rd Army of the NVA (southern GDR) were to be stored in the Stolzenhain special weapons warehouse, while those for the 5th Army of the NVA (northern GDR) were to be kept in the Himmelpfort special weapons warehouse . Both special weapons depots were identical in construction and were built by pioneers of the NVA according to Soviet plans . In 1968 the special weapons depots were handed over to the Soviet armed forces and then put into operation. In addition to these two locations in the GDR, there were other identical special weapons stores of this type in the area of the Warsaw Pact , including in Míšov in the Czech Republic .
Immediately after German reunification in 1990, the Soviet Union withdrew nuclear weapons from the Himmelpfort special weapons depot. In December 1990 the plant was handed over to the German authorities. By June 1991 at the latest, there were presumably no more nuclear weapons on the territory of the former GDR.
The former area of the Himmelpfort special weapons camp with an area of 112.7 hectares was acquired in 2010 by the Oberhavel district with the aim of renaturing it . The two storage bunkers have been preserved; their entrances were closed. The other buildings and most of the road surfaces were demolished and bat quarters were created. From 2015 the unsealed area (4.5 ha) is to be reforested .
construction
The Himmelpfort special weapons warehouse consisted of a residential zone as well as a front and a rear barracks area . The residential zone was relatively freely accessible. In the front area of the barracks there was the staff building, further accommodations, garages and a heating plant. The rear barracks area included the two storage bunkers for the nuclear warheads. The area was secured, among other things, by camouflaged observation bunkers.
Each storage bunker is around 40 m long and 25 m wide and has a loading hall from which four storage rooms extend. Up to 20 nuclear warheads could be stored in a storage chamber on an area of around 20 m by 4 m. These were fixed on the floor in isothermal storage and transport containers.
Inner lock door of a storage bunker
Loading hall of a storage bunker with outgoing storage chambers (right)
Storage chamber for nuclear warheads
See also
literature
- Volker Eckardt and Uwe Feldmann: Cover name "Fichte": The history of the "Lychen-II" nuclear weapons storage facility . Pro Business, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86386-777-5 .
- Martin Kaule: The fascination of bunkers. Stone evidence of European history . Ch.links, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86153-761-8 , p. 80 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- "Lychen II" special weapons depot near Himmelpfort. In: Untergrund-Brandenburg.de. Retrieved November 30, 2014 (photographs of the site and the storage bunkers; plan of a storage bunker).
Individual evidence
- ↑ District development concept. 1. Update. Resolution No. 2/0191 of April 4, 2001. Update 2012. (PDF; 0.1 MB) Chapter 15.3: Overview of the conversion areas in the Oberhavel district. Oberhavel district , December 31, 2011, accessed November 4, 2014 .
- ^ Conversion in Oberhavel. In: Bürgerlexikon. Oberhavel district , October 8, 2014, accessed November 4, 2014 .