Stone staircase of the former RAD camp in the Wispertal

Looks like the RAD meeting place. Here the brains were littered.

The former 13 km long Hinterlandswaldstraße (now part of the Wisperstraße) was built from 1939 onwards in order to better manage the forest. The Reich Labor Service, formerly located near the Laukenmühle, built this road. From 1935 young Germans had to do what is known as the Reich Labor Service. The work, stylized as "honorary service" to the "Volksgemeinschaft", was not only intended to promote National Socialist ideology, but also had the task of disciplining unemployed young people during the Great Depression. The Reich Labor Service Department 5/257 did its work in the Wispertal. Today, stone remains in the form of stairs in the forest or the quarry stone gate just before the Laukenmühle, through which one can enter or leave the chestnut half-avenue, are a reminder.
The "Gottfried Keller" camp consisted of four team barracks, kitchen and dining barracks, administration; In addition, the shooting range, parade ground, warehouse driver's house, guard, watchtower (fire station). In 1945/46, all but one of the prefabricated wooden barracks were moved to Wiesbaden.

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The ruins are silent witnesses of a turbulent past that made a name for itself nationwide for the last time in the 20th century. After the First World War, the Allies occupied the Rhineland in 1919. Only a small, narrow strip from the Rhine through the Wispertal to the Aartal was overlooked. The Free State of the Bottleneck came into being.

Prime Minister of the Free State of bottleneck was the mayor of Lorch, Edmund Pnischek. He had his own money and stamps printed, issued his citizens - around 17,000 in number - passports for the Free State of bottleneck and actually had plans to set up an embassy in Berlin and establish diplomatic relations with other countries. In 1923 the French put an end to the small Free State in the Wispertal.