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Site Name: Schönfeld Stasi Bunker
Schönfeld
East Germany
Sub Brit site visit 25th September 2003
The Stasi bunker for the Berlin District is located 15 kilometers
north west of Berlin on the road between Shöenfeld and Weesow.
The bunker is in a wooded estate now used as a camp for asylum seekers
and patrolled by security guards.
The main entrance to the bunker is in a nondescript single storey building
to the rear of the site and consists of two stairways either end of
a 50 metre long entrance tunnel. Each of the stairways has a steel cover
mounted on rails; this can be rolled over the top of the stairs to prevent
access.
There are two steel nlast doors either end of the entrance tunnel,
each leading in to one half of the bunker. Excluding the generator rooms
and the water plant, the two halves of the bunker are a mirror image
of each other in layout.
The bunker has been largely stripped of all its equipment, some of
which can be found in the surface building. Much of the plant, however,
remains in place. There are two generator rooms, one with three generators
and one with two. The generators appear in fair condition as do the
control cabinets in adjoining rooms.
On either side of the bunker the two sets of identical ventilation
plant are also intact. There are filter drums in three rooms, four in
one room and one each in two small rooms; each room is separated by
a gas tight door. The fan, electric motor, compressed air tanks and
three more filter drums are located in a fourth room where there is
also a bicycle frame mounted in concrete. This can be used to power
the ventilation system in the event of a power failure.
Most of the long narrow rooms on either side of the two spine corridors
are empty apart from small free standing ventilation units strewn around
the bunker. At the end of one of the rooms the main distribution frame
for the telephone system is still in place.
Photo:'Bicycle'
used for powering the ventilation plant
Photo by Nick Catford
The bunker is largely dry although there is some standing water in
one of the generator rooms and in the ventilation plant rooms on one
side.
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