Sorry for writing in English but my German suffers from Oldsheimers disease. My question is, why does nobody ever mention the former Dornier spare parts underground factory in Überlingen/Goldbach, Baden/Würtemberg. I can remember when the French blasted the entrance ways to this facilities in the later forties and seemed to be in an awful hurry! There used to be a small KZ back by Goldbach. What connection it had with the underground facilities I don’t know. I just find it weird that I cannot find anything on this on the internet. Maybe you know more about this?
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The KZ in Goldbach was build for the prisoners working on the tunnels in Überlingen. It was founded at 4.10.1944.
The tunnels in Überlingen were build for:
Dornier
Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen
Maybach-Motoren-Werke
Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH
The tunnels were drilled by the OT under the codename Magnesit. The camp just had 4 Baracks and kept round about 800 prisoners, which were send from the maincamp in Dachau. The KZ was located near Goldbach beside the road to Aufkirch. The prisoners were evacuated in the night from 20.04.1945 to 21.04.1945 with target Munich-Allach, but they never reach the Allach because the US-Army free the prisoners on their way. The number of killed persons in the KZ Goldbach is 168 persons.
Sorry for my bad english.
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Hey, what do I call you, TID or Ritter? And b.t.w. your English is just fine! You can write in German to me, I do understand most of it.
Thanks for the information. I always wondered since my father supposedly spent one week in that camp hauling wood from the forests beyond Aufkirchen by foot.
All I know is that there was a secondary entrance to this facility just above the path from Goldbach to Ueberlingen, The path that went by the camp and came out above the blasted entrances. We went inside this entrance and ended up at a sudden drop off that was several meters deep. One needed a ladder to enter from there. We found that much of the tunnels had collapsed and some where in the process of collapsing. But as far, as we could determine one tunnel must have gone right up to Spetzgart. We never found the end up there but it certainly was long enough but some places had collapsed and filled in close to the ceiling.
Now all this was and happened in the mid to late fifties. By now, I presume, that most of these tunnels would be impassable. All this was cut out of the local soft sandstone and not very stable to start with. I did not see any evidence of cementing, just the odd timbers presumably used for shoring things up.
As I remember there was a small gauge railroad used. I saw this before the French blasted the entry just off the regular railroad crossing at the West end of Ueberlingen. Mind you, I was only about four, or five years old. The whole thing made a big impression on me as a child and teenager but the adults around me/us suppressed any further knowledge of what was going on.
But thanks again, you filled in a big whole in my knowledge of that place.
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