Stolzenhain special weapons warehouse
 Stolzenhain special weapons warehouse
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Entrance to the former special weapons warehouse in Stolzenhain |
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| country | Germany | ||
| local community | Proud grove | ||
| Coordinates : | 51 ° 52 ' N , 13 ° 10' E | ||
| owner | Elbe-Elster district, | ||
Location of the special weapons warehouse in Stolzenhain |
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The Stolzenhain special weapons warehouse , also known as Linda special weapons warehouse , was located near Stolzenhain , town of Schönewalde in what is now the Elbe-Elster district , Brandenburg . It was a special weapons depot of the group of the Soviet armed forces in Germany for nuclear weapons . It was built from May 1967 to December 1968. The facility included two identical monolithic storage bunkers, a transshipment room, vehicle hall, service building, accommodation building, guard building and two guard bunkers. Up to 200 nuclear warheads were stored in the two storage bunkers. In addition to the Himmelpfort special weapons warehouse, the warehouse was one of the two central warhead warehouses of the Soviet armed forces, the contents of which were intended to be handed over to the NVA missile troops if necessary. The nuclear weapons in the Stolzenhain special weapons camp were assigned to the 3rd Army of the NVA (southern GDR). The evacuation took place in 1990.
The Holzdorf Air Base is about eleven kilometers south .
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- ↑ Jens Herbach
- ↑ Sebastian Meinke and Bjorn Lasinski: underground Brandenburg.
- ↑ Ralf Blauermel
- ↑ cold-war.de
- ^ Paul Bergner: Atomic Bunker - Cold War - Delphin program. On the trail of the bunkers built for the Cold War. Heinrich-Jung-Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Zella-Mehlis et al. 2007 ISBN 978-3-930588-78-7 .
- ↑ Rentsch: "Kernsprengkopflager 4001 of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany", self-published, Frankfurt / Oder 2010
- ^ Dietrich Schröder: Secret nuclear weapons depots in forests. In: Märkische online newspaper . February 8, 2019, accessed April 26, 2020 .