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Site Name:Körbelitz Stasi (MfS) bunker
Körbelitz
East Germany
Sub Brit site visit 29th April 2001
[Source:
Paul Sowan]
The Stasi bunker at Körbelitz served the Magdeburg district of
East Germany. Its main role was as a communications intercept bunker,
one of four surviving such bunkers, of which there were formerly 15.
It intercepted signals (mostly encrypted) along the West Germany - West
Berlin autobahn cables.
The cover story locally was that it was a - 'country estate.' Within
grounds of private house in forest N of Körbelitz - Wörmlitz
road 14 km NE of Magdeburg. The original house is still standing and
derelict and the owner is erecting a new house alongside. There are
pillboxes and traces of electric fences in grounds. There are also dog-runs
and a concrete kennel.
Photo:Subsidiary
entrance to the bunker
Photo by Nick Catford
The main entrance is in the truncated end of a transport shed with
two subsidiary entrances with horizontal sliding steel doors in woodland
to north. In other extant Stasi bunkers these two entrances form the
main entrance and are housed inside a single storey building. There
are also escape hatches and various intake & exhaust services protruding
from the ground. There are Russian air filters and manually operated
and motorised blast/gas-tight doors.
It might have accommodated c. 40 men in wartime, with supplies for
7 - 14 days. Cable taps were normally handled/recorded automatically
in seven-man shifts.
The Bundeswehr used the bunker it until 1994 and the new re-unified
German currency was stored here before issue. The bunker has been stripped
out and vandalised by local people, although crates of un-issued Russian
gas masks remain as do one of the standby generators, switchgear and
some of the other plant.
Photo:One
of the two parrallel spine corridors. Note the red cross by the medical
bay
Photo by Nick Catford
Local geology is seven metres of sands and gravels overlying impervious
clays.
Water table is at a depth of about six metres. A now-enlarged steep-sided
pond was originally dug for fire-fighting purposes. The bunker is of
cut-and-cover construction and was constructed at night for security
reasons
Further information and pictures about this site continues here
[Source:
Paul Sowan]
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