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Ruins of the Düneberg Powder Factory

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Ruins of the Düneberg Powder Factory

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Location: Geesthacht, Herzogtum Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

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JR56

March 25, 2019

I always find such sites very impressive. I was surprised that there were still such ruins here when I was here for the first time a few years ago.

I didn't know the history of the Düneberg powder factory then.

You can find more information here:

herzogtum-lauenburg.de/o-pulver-und-dynamit

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JR56

January 22, 2021

In the Düneberg powder factory (Dynamit AG Düneberg) on the site in the Besenhorster Sandberge west of Geesthacht, raw powder mass from the Krümmel dynamite factory was processed into powder types and ballistically tested from 1935 to the beginning of April 1945. During the Second World War, as in the Krümmel factory, foreign volunteers and forced laborers were employed alongside the German workforce.

On July 24, 1871, Emperor Wilhelm I donated the Besenhorster Sandberge, a 20-hectare hilly dune area, to Otto von Bismarck. Max Duttenhofer built a powder factory on the leased land in 1876. In 1912, Bismarck sold the site to Vereinigte Köln-Rottweiler Pulverfabriken AG, which had emerged from the Rottweil powder factory. After the First World War, this company (now under the company Köln-Rottweil AG) switched to peacetime production.

The factory was taken over by IG Farbenindustrie in 1925, the workforce was laid off in 1932 and the site was sold to the Society for the Recycling of Chemical Products in Berlin in 1934.

On January 1, 1935, Dynamit AG from Troisdorf took over the factory and began

producing powder. The factory and the old factory were expanded by 1942 to include the Birke I, II, III and IV operating sections on Heuweg and the Kringel operating section behind the Marschbahn. Operations were stopped after the bombing on April 7, 1945.

Great importance was attached to camouflaging the site by planting plants on the roofs. There were extensive secrecy regulations and security checks.

After the Second World War, production and storage buildings were blown up.

The ruins are overgrown by the pine forest of the Besenhorster Sandberge and Elbsandwiesen, but are still partially visible and accessible.

The Düneberg industrial and commercial area was built in the early 1970s.

Some of the buildings from that time still exist today, as do a few factory and storage buildings.

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulverfabrik_D%C3%BCneberg

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Bea

January 28, 2022

Everywhere very nice to see how nature reclaims everything.

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Location: Geesthacht, Herzogtum Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Ruins of the Düneberg Powder Factory

1. Besenhorster Sandberge Dunes loop from Voßmoor

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