Börfink Command Bunker

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The command bunker Börfink called bunker Erwin is a disused, formerly secret NATO - bunker near Börfink in Birkenfeld in Hunsrück ( Rheinland-Pfalz ) at the foot of the heritage head , from which the air monitoring in Central Europe during the Cold War was controlled.
History

The bunker is about 15 km from the district town of Birkenfeld away between the resorts and Börfink Thranenweier .

The plant was built in the years 1960 to 1963 to receive a CRC (Control and Reporting Center). Construction began with a groundbreaking ceremony on 1 April 1960. In 1963, the shelter for a year and put into trial operation on 1 June 1964 was commissioned by the German and U.S. Air Force . In 1973, the NATO supply of the Federal Republic of Germany for joint use of the facility and was NATO command bunker.

During the two year construction phase in 1975, the company was set. As Primary War Headquarters Allied Forces Central Region (PWHQ AFCENT), the plant was in 1977 commissioned and until 1994 housed the joint war headquarters AFCENT / AIRCENT the radar guidance department 21 (CRC 21), a national satellite-based military intelligence headquarters of the U.S. armed forces and a field office the Office of Intelligence of the Armed Forces . In the years from 1990 to 1994, the construction of a new energy bunker. In 1994 the plant to the battalion staff and Birkenfeld 1996, at the Army Forces Command in Koblenz passed.

After the complete evacuation of the plant was 2002, the location management Idar-Oberstein, passed for the purpose of sale. Time and again there have since been rumors that the bunker was to be sold for the symbolic price of one euro. [1]

In February 2011 it was announced that a Swabian software company in the bunker Erwin wants to set up a highly secure data center with a focus on data protection in addition to software development and training center. [1]
Data Bunker

The bunker was for 250 soldiers conceived during the general service was always occupied with 300 to 350 soldiers and even exercises with up to 750 soldiers. He was therefore rebuilt and extended several times. The total size of the facility is 15,000 square feet.

The underground complex consists of a personnel bunker (four floors, length: 72 m, width 53 m, height 25 m), an energy bunkers (three floors, length: 44 m, width 53 m, height 21 m) and a Energy bunker construction (two and a half floors, length: 55 m, width 47 m, height: 21 m, construction period 1990 to 1994). The total size of the property is 68,000 square meters.

The exterior walls are 3.5 m thick and the bunker ceiling consists of I-beams , on which a layer of concrete is (4 m). A six-meter-thick layer of soil adjacent to the bunker to the surface.

The exhaust gases of the generators were surrounded by a stream of air (ambient air). Was carried out by the heat dissipation heat exchanger . Thus, the command bunker was for thermal imagers invisible.

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