War in Ukraine: Bavaria would no longer have a bunker - what is left is used for other purposes or falls into disrepair
Created: 03/11/2022, 22:29
By: Helena Grillenberger
In war they should protect the population.
Today they are no longer operational.
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There are still bunkers that were supposed to protect the population during and after the Second World War.
Today they are used as living space or stand empty.
They are no longer functional.
Munich – The list of bunkers that still exist in Bavaria today is long.
Many were built in the early 1940s to protect the population from bombing raids.
After the end of the war they remained - often the bunkers clad in plaster and brick were the only thing left in the rubble.
Some of the high-rise bunkers are still in the cities today and are used as living quarters.
And even after the end of the Second World War, bunkers continued to be built.
For fear of the next war: nuclear war.
Unlike the 1940s bunkers, which were not meant to look warlike, the nuclear bunkers were built underground.
Nuclear bunker in Bavaria: no longer functional today
Huge rooms - but they could have accommodated a maximum of two percent of the population.
In some cases, only the insiders knew what could be converted into a nuclear bunker.
The last such bunker (the underground car park under the Gersthofen town hall) was only completed when the Cold War was long over - in 1993. Today, most of the underground nuclear bunkers are empty and no longer functional.
For example, the website of the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance states: “Public shelters such as e.g.
B. Air raid shelters no longer exist.”
Information on bunkers in Bavaria that still exist today can be found primarily on military bunkers.
Unlike civilian bunkers, which were intended to protect the population, military bunkers were intended to strengthen their own positions and thus make an attack by the enemy more difficult.
Bunkers in Bavaria: An overview
Some bunkers can be found in and around Munich, Nuremberg and Fürth in particular.
Bunkers in and around the state capital
Munich
are for example:
Bunker in Blumenstraße - it is still in operation as a civil defense building
Bunker at Anhalter Platz - served as an air raid shelter for the Milbertshofen deportation station
Bunker on Boschetsrieder Straße - sold by the federal government to a private investor in 2010
Bunker in Thalkirchner Straße - has been empty since 2013 and is to be rented out again or used for cultural purposes
High bunker in Rosenheimer Strasse - today covered by a new bar
Underground bunker in Nymphenburg Park
Underground bunker at Josephsplatz
Luftwaffe bunker in Grünwald - today used as a film location
Air raid shelter in Pullach - under the clubhouse/kindergarten on the grounds of the BND property
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Bunkers can still be found at
the following locations near
Nuremberg :
dyer place
Grübelstraße - the so-called Grübelbunker
Frauentorkennel
Central Station
Hirsvogelstrasse
cancer alley
Wodanstrasse
Bunker in Penzstraße - former air raid shelter of the municipal hospital
And there
are also a few bunkers in
Fürth :
Bunker in Ronwaldstraße
Bunker in Kronacherstraße
Bunker in Schwandweg
in the City Center underground car park
in the underground car park of the Stadthalle
Even if the bunkers are no longer ready for use: In Munich, in the worst case, you could switch to the subway shafts.
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