V1 positions in Nutscheid

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Debris from the ramp supports
Remains of the main foundation, the country road in the background
Nature is reclaiming its terrain

The V1 positions in Nutscheid were ramps at the start of the Fieseler Fi 103, also known as V1, in the districts of Winterscheid in the municipality of Ruppichteroth and Eitorf - Rankenhohn in the Rhein-Sieg district . A total of almost 150 missiles were launched here.

In the wood on Federal Highway 56 below of Lohmar-Heide on "Schlangensiefen" are the residues of the V1 position no. 118, after the withdrawal from the Eifel from the second battery of the First Department of the anti-aircraft regiment 155 (W) should be used. The position was not completed, however, as the blocking of what was then Reichsstrasse 56 for the shooting would have interrupted an important supply connection.

Immediately next to Landstrasse 86 between Eitorf and Schönenberg , not far from the Kuchem area, there are large chunks of concrete and brick masonry in the forest as remains of a firing position that was used by the Wehrmacht in February and March 1945 to launch V1 missiles into the Antwerp area .

With another position a good kilometer southwest near Hatterscheid and a third a few kilometers east near Rankenhohn, the only launch sites on the right bank of the Rhine that were fired towards the end of the Second World War were located here . After the war, the positions were destroyed by British troops.

At Kuchem you can see the blasted concrete foundations of the pendulum supports for the steeply ascending launch ramp as well as the main foundation and a pit in which the command post was located. The site is freely accessible. From the position near Hatterscheid, only an earth pit with little concrete remains is currently visible.

The owner of the forest areas is Maximilian Graf von Nesselrode-Reichenstein . The Rhenish Office for Monument Preservation has now placed the area under monument protection . It is entered as a permanent ground monument under the number SU189 in the list of ground monuments of the municipality of Ruppichteroth. The remains of the launch systems near the Bornscheid (reserve) and Hatterscheid locations are also listed as historical monuments.

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  1. ↑ Description at NRW-Untertage. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Gückelhorn, Detlev Paul: V1 - "Eifelschreck" . Helios Verlags- und Buchvertriebsgesellschaft, Aachen 2004, ISBN 3-933608-94-5 .
  3. ↑ Monument protection for the V1 positions? In: www.winterscheid.net. September 15, 2007, archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; accessed on May 26, 2019 .
  4. ↑ List of soil monuments from Ruppichteroth (PDF file; 48 kB) ( Memento from July 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

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Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 36 "  N , 7 ° 25 ′ 7"  E