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Former NATO Headquarters, Cannerberg

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Former NATO Headquarters, Cannerberg

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Former NATO Headquarters, Cannerberg

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Location: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

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Jeroen

July 9, 2021

The heavy iron door behind this grille was the entrance to a secret NATO headquarters, the Joint Operations Center, from 1954 to 1992. It was a communications center where coordination took place for the Allied land and air forces from Northwestern Europe to the Iron Curtain. Information about troop movements on both sides of the Iron Curtain was collected and processed here.

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Despite the major renovation, the special story can be experienced during an excursion. The complex can only be visited during guided excursions for €6 per person via limburgs-landen.nl

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Sportwandelaar

January 22, 2022

From 1954 the Ministry of War rented the Boschberg from the Limburg Landscape Foundation for a period of fifty years. NATO-NATO started using the quarry as a war and training headquarters and the complex has been subject to the State Secrets Act since 1956. In 1963, as a result of heightened tensions in the context of the Cold War, the headquarters was permanently occupied, day and night, seven days a week. Dutch, Belgian, British, German and American soldiers worked there. The complex was an important communications center for NATO-NATO. Air defense and military air traffic control for the northern half of West Germany were coordinated there. When NATO - NATO left the quarry in 1992, there was serious contamination with asbestos fibres. After that, a thorough cleaning operation took place in which the entire headquarters was 'stripped'. What remains are the impressive ruins of this underground world. Guided tour is possible! cannerberg-navo.nl

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Rob Josten 🦅

March 21, 2022

NATO has used the quarry as a war and training headquarters. In 1963, as a result of the heightened tensions during the Cold War, the headquarters was permanently occupied, day and night, seven days a week.

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