Neuhammer military training area
The Neuhammer military training area is located near the Silesian town of Neuhammer am Queis . It is used today by the Polish army .
history
The structure of the military training area began in 1898. In 1905 he covered an area of 5000 ha. After Hitler took power in 1933 and the next upgrade of the Wehrmacht was massively expanded the training area so that it at the beginning of World War II, one of the largest training areas of the German Reich was . Large formations with 60–70,000 soldiers were able to practice combined arms combat on it. The area became famous through the so-called Stuka accident in Neuhammer in the summer of 1939, when the worst aircraft accident of the German Air Force in peacetime occurred on the training area .
The Red Army , which occupied the military training area in 1945, used it alone until 1955. From 1955 the Polish People's Army was allowed to use the area for large-scale maneuvers together with other Warsaw Pact states . After the Red Army withdrew in 1992, the Polish army used the site. Today it covers an area of 34,000 hectares.
literature
- Dziennik Urzędowy MON z 2003, 2006, 2007.
- Ośrodek Szkolenia Poligonowego Wojsk Lądowych Żagań, materiał promocyjny wydany przez Department Wychowania i Promocji Obronności MON.
Web links
- Poligon Bory Dolnośląsie i Linia Maginota (in Polish)
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ N , 15 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E