Photos Fortifications and Bunkers

[Picanha]

Alternative Accommodation of the Constitutional Organs of the Federal Republic of Germany (Out of Service)

Dokumentationsstätte Regierungsbunker

The bunker of the federal government inside the valley of the river Ahr has been the most top secret building in the history of the federal Republic of Germany. Its planning has been realized since 1950.

The federal Chancellor Dr. Konrad Adenauer has been included since its beginning. The German ministry of the interior acted as central coordinator of this project. It decided in favour for two railway tunnels of the former, unfinished strategic railway through the valley mountain range of the river Ahr, after a site reconnaissance lasting for years.

These railway tunnels were extended and converted into the so called “Alternative Accommodation of the Constitutional Organs of the Federal Republic of Germany in a Period of Crisis and wartime”.

 

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Museum entrance today

Side entrance of the Bunker

 

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Accomodations

The federal presidents room

Lounge

Standard rooms

Sanitary facilities

 

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Kitchen

Recording room

Control and Monitoring room

Public phone

A control panel (presumably the bunkers support systems)

 

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Equipment

Medical staff electric vehicle

Pharmacy

On top the orange boxes contain an emergency intubation and emergency amputation set

Dentist

Lab

Message room

Decon equipment (I know the Zodiac pretty well we had quite a few days of WWIII sim, then I had to wear it all day long and afterwards sprinkle all of them with talcum powder)

The door has the inscription of "Brauseraum" a very old fashion designation for showers (my kids wouldn't know what a Brauseraum is they would think there is Brause in it.)

Fire and rescue

 

[Fish&Chips]

Awesome photos, Picanha! That phone booth strikes me as somewhat bizarre though. Who were they supposed to call in that nuclear desert above the surface?

 

[Fluff]

Meanwhile in Middle England:

 

[BCNTM]

Jermans and bunkers............

 

[uktabber]

AWESOME!!! Those are great photos mate I knew a little about this bunker but hadn't seen anything about it, nice work and thanks for posting!!!

 

[Picanha]

Awesome photos, Picanha! That phone booth strikes me as somewhat bizarre though. Who were they supposed to call in that nuclear desert above the surface?

I'm also sceptical maybe it was not originally included there. But these yellow booths (aswell as most phone booths btw) don't exist anymore since IDK 30 years?

So maybe you could try your luck reaching your nuked relatives by still working landlines?

I know that during the CW lots of companies and especially the public ones were involved (some more some less) in civil defense, so maybe the Post lines had some secret hardening? ?

 

[Fish&Chips]

I know that during the CW lots of companies and especially the public ones were involved (some more some less) in civil defense, so maybe the Post lines had some secret hardening?

Well, at least the old Post lines were EMP proof. No fancy electronic switches and converters that could get fried but simple analogue technology. However, much of the related infrastructure to operate the phone network would have been blown to bits and pieces.

 

[Picanha]

Courtesy of this site:

Command Post(CP) der französischen Luftwaffe ☢

Endlose Gänge und endlose Treppen führen tief in den Berg, der den Command Post(Bunker) der französischen Luftwaffe, vor einem atomaren Angriff schützte.

www.vnv-urbex.de

Its in German but there are many pictures also of abandoned mines and other bunkers.



Armée de l'Air Command Post bunker it belonged to a NATO network but I can't figure it out at the moment. There are more bunkers in Belgium I presume from the same network.

It is 50 meters deep in rocky ground and has a 300 meter long access tunnel. It is also protected by blast barriers supposed to break the nuclear blast.

 

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Blast barriers

 

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50 meters down

 

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And a former NATO bunker in Leipheim Bavaria turned into a medical cannabis factory

Bavaria Weed building today

 

[Zweihander]

@Picanha - Fantastic installation/museum. Recognize the "Message room" T-1000 - fernschreiber - and with red paper - probably for "secret".

In Denmark, we went with the circle-design.

As seen on this drawing from the REGAN-VEST museumpage.

REGAN VEST