Army research institute for barrier balloons

​In the Army Research Center built on approx. 178 hectares in 1937/38, an Air Force Blocking Substitute Department was stationed. On the site there were, among other things, accommodations for NCOs, a staff building and farmhouses. Attempts have been made with barrier balloons, observer balloons, kites and English prey balloons. The well-known pilot Hannah Reitsch took part in them with her airplane. Most recently, the soldiers here also received smoke-throwing training. The wildest stories are circulating about the two underground cisterns that are still on the site today (were not accessible in 2021). It tells of electron accelerators, uranium enrichment systems for the German atomic bomb and warfare agent containers. The GSSD later converted both cisterns into a storage bunker and a command bunker. The large ammunition depot built by the GSSD has been preserved with dozens of partially heated warehouses, surrounded by high earthen walls as protection against fragments. There are also two prefabricated arch covers of the USB type as storage bunkers. Unfortunately, in 2010 all historical buildings (except for the cisterns) from the time of the Wehrmacht were demolished. Therefore, the extensive area with its Soviet warehouses is very monotonous and without special features, as we know them from the Jüterbog area.