Round "Hochbunker" are not uncommon, you can find them in Hamburg and Bochum too, in Bresau there also is a round Bunker Hospital bunker. According to legends in Breslau nuclear reactor research took place in some round bunkers but I dont have more informations. Its a legend by the poles. For me the round bunker out there in the nowhere was involved in Radar research....one large radar aparatus on top and the high voltage equipmnet inside, dozen of cables coming through the openings to the rooftop. We know that in Breslau there was a very secret radar reserach facility also involved in ray weapons research (ray jamming aircraft engines and cooking pilotes inside of the planes)
Not Breslau, but Wrocław, because the Germans lost the war and the city will be called that as long as the Polish army is stronger than the Bundeswehr and at least one Pole lives in this world. Let's not forget about the formal American occupation of Germany, which continues to this day ;-)
@@ZdronaPL I believe in using the name relevant to the time period being discussed. For example if I am discussing St Petersburg during Soviet times, I will refer to it as Leningrad. Additionally, the difference between endonym vs exonym also can change what people/places are called. Alemania, Deutschland, and Niemcy are all legitimate names for Germany.
Looking forward to watch this episode. I hope you are well Tino. I'll be ready to rock! Yet coming Sunday I am committed to an appointment drinking beers, with a fellow autist at the regional festivity here in my city. And it is from 19:00 - about 21:30, when we consumed a minimum of two beers each. Which will be...while this episode is running. I will watch it, when I am home. Have a great time live all! Excuse me for not being around, but I have an alibi, and it is beer consumption.
Definitely a radio bunker. the many pipes that go in at the top were for the cables to the transmission towers, the window-sized openings on the floor were additional ventilation
Possibly radar , one transition flat top and the other receiver. Germany did develop some very large 360 degree rotors radar like Kernickerbine which would need to be above the tree height.. This would also explain its remote location. Interesting just the same.
Voith in Heidenheim (FRG) has a similar bunker. It is round and has a cone top. As far as i know it was used during WWII to protect relevant documentation from possible bomb raids. I think Heidenheim was never bombed. The bunker couldn't be destroyd after WWII because then the whole fa. Voith would have been blown up. The bunker stands still (I think) in the middle of fa. Voith. The round form with the cone top should be very hard to break. I was told the bunker was full of water to the ground level after WWII. Edit: Should be there in google earth: 48°40'14"N 10°09'07"E
They feel like an experimental bunker... Round maybe a little more complicated to build but also stronger and better equipped to deal with shells hitting it. Only one angle would be dead on, the other angles deflect the shell much better...
If the black paint has tar in it, it is possibly for keeping water out. If the structures are air raid shelters, the one in town is very old, later ones had no windows or ventilation shafts because it was learned that openings drastically affected the people inside.
The pointy "bunker" was constructed to deflect bombing and probably housed troops gaurding the prison or were deployed in the event of an escape or riot.
Looks a lot like a water storage tank, we have them in various size capacity for different sections of the city where elevation causes water system pressure problems
Cant help but notice the acoustics inside. You only create a round building for a couple of purposes. Least resistance for sound or energy? No hard corners for a blast to consolidate its energy. Theres no way this was used for storage. Something was tested here. You would not need that much electricity for a storage facility. The size, shape, pattern and location of the "vent holes" has something to do with its purpose. This was most certainly not a bunker or air raid shelter. Those are my thoughts.
When you first got inside and then descended down the floors, it reminded me of a Titan II missile complex control room silo only above ground. The location is in the relative center of the New Germany, a long distance from any kind of attack coming from the borders. So the question is, were they confident enough in their rocket program that they got a head start on building a launch complex to be ready for the delivery of rockets? Food for thought.
The Bunkers had different forms, some were even built to appear like a church. It's one bunker at the great Markets in Cologne that is like that. The overall structure was simplistic and uniform or limited to only a few variants to accelerate and simplify the process of building. On the other hand, there could be a change in the purpose of these buildings within the time of their construction due to external incidents.
Puzzle of the week! A couple of things: The wore dangling down on "stand-offs" at 0:05? Looks a LOT like the "grounding" wire leading from a "lightning arrestor up on the "roof". "Technical use"? Not built like the "Flakturms", but how about experimental radar installations?. Germany was not far behind Britain in radar research; leapfrogging it several times, especially with "steerable" units that could provide altitude data as well as the basic "direction and speed".. "Flat-top" for the antenna array and the pointy one for the operators? Pre-war experimentation ,out in the "boonies? What else was lurking around Breslau?
The mid upper floors internal support structure (25:10) reminds me of the "Henge" structures supposedly used to test the Die Glocke. It's a common building method for round building structure of huge weight so they may have nothing in common.
I would assume that these are experimental buildings. To choose the best option. The inside is the same, but there are two roof options. There are no traces of complex equipment or pipes, ventilation, or mechanisms. That is, only the design was of interest to the builders. And based on these results, other bunkers were built.
The cross cut plan of the larger bunker shows the elevator shaft with rather tiny openings to get things in and out of the elevator. This leads me to believe the elevator may not be meant for people or large pieces of equipment but rather for paperwork, messages or small items and parts. This would make the intended purpose of the bunker not very likely to be storage or ammunition, ordinance or even parts of vehicles but rather communication (telephone switchboard maybe) or things like that.
joking aside Tino -that assent/decent was dangerous/ill prepared -be careful mate -dont want you getting in the newspapers!! -take lids/lights and line -good to go --lots of love timothy
You have to consider that Breslau, in the mid 1930's when the bunkers were planned and constructed, was near the border of Poland and, further away, the border with Czechoslovakia. I assume the bunkers were to planned to protect military communications in the region prior to the annexation of Czechoslovakia. The war nearly began in 1938 with the Germans demanding Sudetenland and it's ethnic German population, which Great Britain and France handed over to Hitler to avoid war. Nazi Germany knew war was coming, and prepared accordingly, although Hitler thought the war would only start in the 1940's. Because of the 1938 scare, Great Britain ramped up it's production of military arms, aircraft, ships and ammunition.
Could these have been early attempts at a Large Hadron Collider?....model types to prove a concept?might explain or theorize why some tunnel systems were sealed,to hide the circular tunnels?,just throwing rocks into the pond here lol
There's a square bunker in Berlin, i forget the name of it. I saw it in the 1990s and they used to have illegal raves there on all the floors and then i think it turned into some kind of art museum. They built a pent house on top of it and it looks impressive.
Design is weird. Only entrance and exit way high.Even if it was used as storage the platform is small. Wonder if they used a block and tackle to lift things up there? Got me wondering.
Damn US education system! Take the formula for the circumference and area of a square and compare it with the formula of the circumference and area of a circle. Then you know why a lot of things are round. The ratio of the area to circumference is the least of a circle - therefore less concrete is needed! Beste Grüße!
Round "Hochbunker" are not uncommon, you can find them in Hamburg and Bochum too, in Bresau there also is a round Bunker Hospital bunker. According to legends in Breslau nuclear reactor research took place in some round bunkers but I dont have more informations. Its a legend by the poles. For me the round bunker out there in the nowhere was involved in Radar research....one large radar aparatus on top and the high voltage equipmnet inside, dozen of cables coming through the openings to the rooftop. We know that in Breslau there was a very secret radar reserach facility also involved in ray weapons research (ray jamming aircraft engines and cooking pilotes inside of the planes)
The henge, an installation to train the rigging of a circular space station in LEO, see Hermann Noordung circular space station as a wheel with spokes out of steel cables, or the Wernher von Braun 1945 circular space station. At Breslau there was the secret Special Projects Group Breslau, see the transcript of Hans Göbel, I found in internet, he worked near the Autobahn München Salzburg operating exotic air vehicles, he was captured 1945 by U.S. troops and the German told the U.S. soldiers some tales about otherworldly space crafts, the propaganda stories still today in use. Göbel was in Nevada underground installations, flying German crafts which were built for the Americans post war, KPR Researcher, Book Author
It looks as if it was never used for its intended or any other purpose Built before the war and then abandoned as its intended use was no longer there.
Test buildings for Germania? The cabling off each branch inside was for sensing subsidence I would guess, overkill cable size for lighting and the holes to each floor was to put weights in. Berlin is built on a water table and like said, these are bult next to or on a swamp and why water is in the bottom floor. Probably similar ground as Berlin. Germania was Hitler's project for Berlin and the building were going to be bigger than other huge structures like in ancient cities. There are other buildings that are similar like the Schwerbelastungskörper.
Name of location Wrocław. One oldest city in Poland was funded by duke Wrocisław, and it was also a first city name. Using name Breslau is not appropriate :/
sooo.. i have a whole list of things id consider suspect with this place and the explanation of use. if those where power cables. how many terawatts of power would that be? you could run a whole factory off 3-4 power cables of that size. high security, tall floors. a roof a little thin. a tube down the center.. this is a machine. and then... that red water.
What amazes me is the amount of cement used. Setting up concrete forms supposedly by prisoners who dont want to do it. Forced labor. But yet well built. I dont get it
or test station for a circular space battle station to train astronauts living in space, see Wohnrad von Hermann Noordung and Fliegenfalle, Riese, test rig for rigging the steel cables with hub in the center of the Wohnrad, KPR Book Author
I wouldn't build an "air raid shelter" that looks like a fuel silo from 10,000 feet. Just saying. Part of the blast from the bombs are traveling horizontally, I would be underground. Air raid shelters huh?
Powder / explosives storage? The design really doesn't make much sense for any practical use I can think of. My mind keeps going back to either drying something or keeping something dry.
These maybe part of Architect Speers devices to see if the ground was suitable for Hitlers Germania buildings and tunnels. That the ground could handle the new buildings weight.
