May 8, 2013

Torpedo Research Facility

These ruins are the remains of the Torpedo Research Facility of the Kriegsmarine.

On this location, the "Kaiserliche Marine" and the "Reichsmarine" also had tested their torpedos, and still today, this part of the coast is used by the German successor organizations of the old facility.
After WWII, the British Military Government in Northern germany decided to blow up the buildings in the process of dismantling all German military assets.
Large protests from the citizens and the German local government arose because there were more than 10.000 civilian jobs planned on the premises. For example, Siemens alone had alreaday signed a binding agreement to create more than 3.000 jobs.
The protests were useless, the buildings were blown up in December of 1948.

Here you see what is left of them:






















7 comments:

  1. Ein Lost place am Meer!
    Grandios! Ich liebe das Meer und deine Lost places ziehen mich ja auch magisch an.
    Tolle Kombination. Und klasse Bilder, Jan.

    Liebe Grüße
    Sonja

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  2. Vielen Dank! Als alter bzw. ehemaliger Ubootfahrer habe ich eine besondere Verbindung zum Meer, und wenn der Lost Place dann auch noch einen historischen Bezug dazu hat, ist es eben auch etwas ganz besonderes für mich :)

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  3. Die Bilder sind sehr authentisch!

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  4. Wow! echt super Bilder =)

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    1. Vielen Dank!
      Es werden mehr, ich hab' nur momentan so viel Arbeit, dass ich kaum rauskomme um Fotos zu machen...ich hoffe, das Wochenende bringt was :)

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