Gaugefechtsstand Wien

The Gaugefechtsstand Vienna, according to Reich and Gauleiter Baldur von Schirach also called Schirachbunker, was located in the 16th district of Vienna.

History

The Gaugefechtsstand 1940 at Gallitzinberg (Wilhelmina Berg), which belongs to the northern Vienna Forest, 388 meters above sea level (see town center: 172 m ) near the later Johann- Staud -Straße as the center of the air warning system Ostmark built above ground. After the first bombing of the command post was from 1942 to 1945 built underground, designed by architect Hans Edelmoser.

On 4 April 1945, the bunker was cleared after the invading from the west in the city Red Army had reached the 2.5 km distant suburb of Vienna Hütteldorf. Half a year later additions were blown up for studs.

On January 3, 1946, reported the Vienna City Hall correspondence, that, according to financial Councillor Karl Honay vorliege the billing for the establishment of the Gaugefechtsstands. The construction cost 374,240.88 Reichsmark, but bills are still pending. Whether these are later arrived and whether they were paid by the Vienna city council ( or other authority of the Second Republic ), is not known.

After 1989, the owner, the Forestry Department of the City of Vienna, concreted over all inputs sustainable. For a survey and further research into the partially dilapidated subterranean premises are excluded.

Published in 2004, the Viennese journalist Alexander Haide the book The Schirach Bunker. For the first time plans have been published and various legends that surrounded the ruins bunker resolved. Photos from the 1980s show the destroyed interior of the bunker. In addition, the author interviewed two witnesses, who performed their service in Gaugefechtsstand 1944 and 1945. The excited Haide excavation of the bunker was not tackled. According to research there is at least one room in the bunker, the existence, function and current state are unclear, as access according to Haide was blown up shortly after the war.

Construction

The bunker consisted of a tunnel between the main and emergency exit with a length of about 100 meters. To the east of the tunnel was was the real Gaugefechtsstand in a two-story bunker of about 16.5 m long, 5 m wide and 5 m high.

Upstairs rooms were housed for communication ( telephone, telex ), the spaces of the Gauleiter and the command post was from where air-raid alarm with the dreaded " cuckoo " is triggered in the basement, which sounded unmistakably in Reichssender Vienna.