Attractions and Places To See in Unterheide - Top 19

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Dahme Kurier from March 9, 2024, page 16: Former tank farm in Niederlehme: The shattered dream of a holiday resort Once built by the Nazis, the fuel for the aircraft of the NVA air force was stored in the tank farm in Niederlehme - a huge holiday camp was to be built here in the 2000s By Heinrich Jakunin In a forest in Niederlehme, rusted ventilation shafts protrude from the ground. All around you are dilapidated buildings, covered in grease, some with collapsed roofs. Long shafts lead deep into the bunker facilities beneath the former lubricant and tank farm. All of this just a few hundred meters away from single-family homes and allotment gardens. Like so many former military facilities in Brandenburg, the tank and lubricant depot in Niederlehme was built by the Nazis in the 1940s. At that time it was built as one of four Paraxol Gmbh plants spread across Germany. What exactly was produced in these factories was secret. The aim was to conceal the fact that officially private companies were producing with state money for the war. After the Second World War, the Red Army dismantled most of the industrial plant. At the beginning of the 1950s, the Barracked People's Police, later the NVA, took over the site. The GDR army set up a fuel depot for its air force here and built additional tanks, residential complexes and pipelines. The kerosene stored here was used, among other things, to refuel the GDR government aircraft in Schönefeld. Not much of it remained after the fall of communism. In the 1990s there were efforts to set up a riding stable on the site, but this was not successful. The camp fell into disrepair over the next few years: looters took everything valuable and people repeatedly dumped their garbage there. Things started to move again in 2014. In 2004 a Canadian investor bought the site. At that time, Fritz Kroll was in charge of representing him through his company “Log Homes Berlin Gmbh”, an asset management company based in Ingolstadt. Kroll, who was born in Berlin, had big plans for the area: within two years, a huge hotel and leisure complex with two hotels and almost 250 holiday homes was to be built on the site of the tank farm. That made waves. At the time, the Brandenburg Ministry of Infrastructure spoke of “one of the largest tourism projects in the country”. The then Niederlehm mayor Frank Häusler said in a MAZ article from December 2014: “That would be a golden egg for Niederlehme. Hopefully the groundbreaking will take place soon.” But nothing has happened since then. The site is still in private hands, and the city also has a legally binding development plan from April 2015 for the planned holiday resort. It is said that they simply were not able to raise enough money for the rather ambitious plans. Fritz Kroll died in 2018 at the age of 82. In the same year, the project's website went offline. Nobody knows what will happen next with the tank farm.

Dahme Kurier from March 9, 2024, page 16: Former tank farm in Niederlehme: The shattered dream of a holiday resort Once built by the Nazis, the fuel for the aircraft of the NVA air force was stored in the tank farm in Niederlehme - a huge holiday camp was to be built here in the 2000s By Heinrich Jakunin In a forest in Niederlehme, rusted ventilation shafts protrude from the ground. All around you are dilapidated buildings, covered in grease, some with collapsed roofs. Long shafts lead deep into the bunker facilities beneath the former lubricant and tank farm. All of this just a few hundred meters away from single-family homes and allotment gardens. Like so many former military facilities in Brandenburg, the tank and lubricant depot in Niederlehme was built by the Nazis in the 1940s. At that time it was built as one of four Paraxol Gmbh plants spread across Germany. What exactly was produced in these factories was secret. The aim was to conceal the fact that officially private companies were producing with state money for the war. After the Second World War, the Red Army dismantled most of the industrial plant. At the beginning of the 1950s, the Barracked People's Police, later the NVA, took over the site. The GDR army set up a fuel depot for its air force here and built additional tanks, residential complexes and pipelines. The kerosene stored here was used, among other things, to refuel the GDR government aircraft in Schönefeld. Not much of it remained after the fall of communism. In the 1990s there were efforts to set up a riding stable on the site, but this was not successful. The camp fell into disrepair over the next few years: looters took everything valuable and people repeatedly dumped their garbage there. Things started to move again in 2014. In 2004 a Canadian investor bought the site. At that time, Fritz Kroll was in charge of representing him through his company “Log Homes Berlin Gmbh”, an asset management company based in Ingolstadt. Kroll, who was born in Berlin, had big plans for the area: within two years, a huge hotel and leisure complex with two hotels and almost 250 holiday homes was to be built on the site of the tank farm. That made waves. At the time, the Brandenburg Ministry of Infrastructure spoke of “one of the largest tourism projects in the country”. The then Niederlehm mayor Frank Häusler said in a MAZ article from December 2014: “That would be a golden egg for Niederlehme. Hopefully the groundbreaking will take place soon.” But nothing has happened since then. The site is still in private hands, and the city also has a legally binding development plan from April 2015 for the planned holiday resort. It is said that they simply were not able to raise enough money for the rather ambitious plans. Fritz Kroll died in 2018 at the age of 82. In the same year, the project's website went offline. Nobody knows what will happen next with the tank farm.

There have now been several tree falls in the bunker area. But it looks natural.

Meanwhile, an opportunity to climb down from above has been permanently closed. The smaller bunkers do not have a fire hose for easy climbing out.

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Former tank depot of the air force of the NVA in the middle of the forest.

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