Spitzbunker / Luftschutzturm- CarlSchenckRing > DA 🚴‍♂️

In Darmstadt there are still four Spitz bunkers that were built in the years before World War II. On the grounds of the former repair shop of the Deutsche Bahn in the area of Frankfurter Straße, Carl-Schenck-Ring, Sensfelder Weg, popularly called "Knell", there are two pointed bunkers of the type "angle" probably 1939 to 1940 in preparation for the already threatening air war for the protection of the Reichsbahn employees were built.Leo Winkel (1885 - 1981) was a German architect who u. a. became known for its designed as Spitzbunker air raid towers. This type of construction was registered in 1934 by the Reich Patent Office.
The Darmstadt towers are exceptionally large, have 15 storeys and a wall thickness of about three meters on the ground. The outer walls of the two pointed-cylindrical bunkers are made of reinforced concrete walls about two meters high. Inside, spirally a flat ramp winds around a centrally located spindle. Original preserved tracks such as numbered wooden benches, inscriptions on the concrete walls, ventilation pipes, measuring instruments and toilet facilities provide an authentic insight into the time of the Second World War. Such a bunker sheltered 530 people. In addition to the two spitz bunkers, the site also has a shallow protection bunker set up to protect staff, which has also retained many original wartime traces. 🚴♂️dfg-vk-darmstadt.de/Lexikon_Auflage_2/Spitzbunker.htm

Day in and day out on this route ... memories are awakened by a lot of traffic, especially at rush hour