1. Die Steinmühle
Die Steinmühle wurde 1303 als Getreidemühle von den Zisterziensermönchen aus dem Kloster Zinn erbaut und von diesen betrieben. Bis 1766 wurde die Mühle als Getreidemühle genutzt, bis der damalige Mühlenmeister eine Genehmigung zur Anlegung einer Schneidemühle (Sägewerk) erhielt.
1845 wurde sie wieder abgerissen und danach als Ölmühle wiederaufgebaut. Ende 19. Jahrhunderts wurde auf Dampfkraft erweitert und die Mühle zur Strohpapierstoff-Fabrik umgebaut. Sie wurde auch weiter als Dampfmühle genutzt. 1918 firmiert die Mühle als „G. Thiele Steinmühle“. Inhaber war Emil Gericke, der Schwiegersohn von G.Thiele. 1934 wurde die Dampfmaschine durch einen Motor ersetzt und die Mühle vergrößert.
Jüterbog military training area
The following photos on the shooting range were taken in 2004. A friend had an old NVA map of the shooting range with us, with which we could orientate ourselves very well. Otherwise you can quickly get lost in the inner area of the area.
In addition to bunkers, fortress replicas and observation buildings, there are still many buildings from that time on the firing range to see the GSSD. It gets interesting on the shooting ranges. Here you can still find large bunkers that were used as targets before the war. But be careful, the area is now largely owned by the Brandenburg Natural Landscapes Foundation . Driving is prohibited. However, the paths can be hiked. But they must not be left.
The number was really amazing of ammunition leftovers that we found in the forest back in 2004. As you can see in the photos, grenades and mines were lying around open. Very dangerous! No wonder that the fire brigade is not yet here today trusts in this area. In June 2019, 600 hectares of forest simply burn down.
We met a man with a 10 year old child on the roadside. Both were digging for ammunition in the forest. The mother sat next to it. Dreadful! The man explained to us that booty ammunition from WW2 is buried everywhere here. In 1945, on behalf of the Russians, farmers from the area had to unload the ammunition that did not fit into Russian weapons here. He wanted to sell the cartridges on the Internet. That was scary! In the forest we also found a lot of large remains of ammunition, such as grenades and plate mines, quite open at the side of the road. No wonder that the fire brigade does not go into the forest in the event of a forest fire. The long building in the photos is the west firing range for tank shooting by the GSSD and the bunker is the Richthofen observation post from German use in 2004.
Update pictures of the shooting range and the observation bunker from autumn 2019:
You can see other bunkers of the firing range on this linked page from me.
Nachfolgend Bilder des sowjetischen Feldherrnhügels mit seinen Aussichtsturm und Bilder der Panzerschießanlage-Ost aus dem Jahr 2020:
