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The octopus underwater listening system was a reconnaissance facility of the People's Navy that was used during the Cold War to locate submarines and other sea vessels in the Baltic Sea . The station was located on the northern tip of the island of Rügen .
construction
The Volksmarine wanted a way to be able to locate submerged submarines in transit from the western Baltic Sea to the eastern Baltic Sea, and therefore began planning an acoustic listening system. The original plan was to set up a network of sensors along the GDR's Baltic coast, but only the reconnaissance post on Rügen was implemented. Three listening systems were built at VEB Funkmechanik in Leipzig-Plagwitz and sunk in 1953 to positions about 4 km to 4.5 km off the coast.
- Station 1 (Base West) - east of Möwenort
- Station 2 (base north) - north of Cape Arkona
- Station 3 (base east) - Tromper Wiek
Each of the three stations was connected with a cable to the receiving station of the Technical Observation Company (TBK) Arkona.
Stations 1 and 2 were salvaged in the early 1970s and the station in the Tromper Wiek was replaced by an improved version. From 1990 to around 1994 the station was used by the naval location B of the German Navy.
Opposite on the German side is the marine coastal station Marienuchter .
today
On the beach of Bakenberg / Nonnevitz and below the Cape Arkona lighthouse you can find rinsed remains of the connecting cables to the land station.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinz Dieter Wittwer: Signal points and what became of them: The land-based observation system of the Volksmarine , Heiber, 2012, ISBN 3-9366-9143-6 , p. 187.