Stasi bunker Lübschützer ponds
The Lübschützer Teiche bunker complex (disguised as a holiday complex of the VEB water supply and wastewater treatment Leipzig) is located around three kilometers north of the village of Machern in Saxony . Between 1968 and 1971 this bunker was built as an alternative control point (AFüST) of the District Administration for State Security (BVfS) Leipzig (part of the Ministry for State Security - MfS) in the event of a nuclear war or a conventional attack and would have provided space for around 100 full-time employees. For camouflage, holiday bungalows, garages and a carpentry shop were built on the site.
The total area is 5.2 hectares, the bunker interiors cover approx. 1500 square meters.
It was not until December 1989 that the pastor of the town of Machern discovered the secret bunker and, after the fall of the Wall , made it accessible to the public together with the citizens' movement. Today the facility is part of the museum memorial in the "Round Corner" in Leipzig and is operated by the citizens' committee as a museum in the Stasi bunker . This means that visitors can view all of the structures and facilities that have been preserved, including the furnishings that have largely been preserved. This includes in part the communications technology used at the time, but no longer the encryption technology dismantled by Soviet officers.
Visits are possible on the last weekend of the month. Special tours for groups are also possible outside of opening times on request.
The web links refer to interesting technical transit objects, including the Deutsche Post telecommunications tower. The telecommunications tower had two functions, on the one hand that of the area radio control center (BRFuZ) South in the narrow-band radio network of the National People's Army (NVA) and on the other hand that of the district radio control center Leipzig in the party's network. The NVA had it built. At times, members of the NVA in civilian clothes and technical party personnel worked on the tower at the same time. His identification was 13A1. Until it was put into operation in Machern, the headquarters were in the city hall tower in the center of Leipzig. In the 1950s, in response to the June 17 uprising, the party's network began to be set up as an independent communications network . From the tower in Machern radio links were to all existing district radio control centers of the party (SED) in the southern districts of the GDR , to the main radio control center Stülpe of the NVA near Luckenwalde and to special objects of the NVA, e.g. B. the Ministry of National Defense , commands of the armed forces and military units organized. Both networks, that of the party and the NVA, worked closely together.
Web links
- "Museum in the Stasi bunker Machern"
- Information on the website of the Citizens Committee Leipzig eV
- Private - The Truth on the Web / Turmgeflüster
- The Ministry of National Defense's main private communications center
- Haig Latchinian : This is what it looks like in the Stasi bunker in Machern - on the Open Monument Day, places in the district of Leipzig that are particularly steeped in history await the hopefully large number of visitors. In Machern near Wurzen, those interested can visit the only Stasi bunker that is still in its original state. 30 years after the fall of the Wall, the somewhat different escape tunnels look almost spooky. Leipziger Volkszeitung , online portal, September 10, 2019. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 47.5 " N , 12 ° 38 ′ 40.8" E