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The Abandoned WWII
Munition Factory
This German munition factory was built most probably in 1939 (the
exact date is also unknown) in the area of 35 km², and a huge part
of it is inaccessible due to being used by the Army as a military
facility.
The complex was built as a branch of IG Farben conglomerate. Their
production profile isn’t well known even today because of the lack
of documentation.
On the very strict guarded territory a railway network with loading
ramps.
The concentration camp Gross Rosen and the prisoners of it were the
main workforce of the whole project.
Around 25000 prisoners were working there as forced laborers. The
factory stopped production just a few days before Red Army arrival.
Germans evacuated some of the most valuable equipment shortly before
the Soviet offensive in February 1945, the rest of it were
dismantled and transferred by Russians after the war. Today remained
only concrete constructions, ruins of production halls, giant silos
covered with few meters dirt layers on which trees began to grow.
There are still visible remnants of infrastructure such as roads,
railways, and bunkers.
How many objects are out there? Certainly over 500, the role of most
of them is unknown.
The complex was built on the Nazi Third Reich territory, but after
territorial changes of Poland after the World War II, the entire
facility became a part of Poland as well. |
