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Ventilation system

Remaining parts of the ventilation system. Underground tour with mornixuur, Batram, Bunkersachse and some other european urbexers. The plant "Malachit" was built during WW2 using war prisoners and detainees. Thousands of them died. It was planned to install a huge underground aircraft engine factory. The total length of all tunnels is about 15 km. After the war, the underground facility was destroyed in part. In the GDR, the tunnel system was rebuilt, modernized and provided with an underground railway station. Under the name "Komplexlager 12" it served until the end of GDR with an area of 40,000 square meters as the largest military material depot of the East German army. The plant is abandoned since 1993, locked and is now privately owned.

 

 

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Uploaded on May 29, 2011
Taken on May 28, 2011