Definitely a radio bunker. the many pipes that go in at the top were for the cables to the transmission towers, the window-sized openings on the floor were additional ventilation
Round "Hochbunker" are not uncommon, you can find them in Hamburg and Bochum too, in Bresau there also is a round Bunker Hospital bunker. According to legends in Breslau nuclear reactor research took place in some round bunkers but I dont have more informations. Its a legend by the poles. For me the round bunker out there in the nowhere was involved in Radar research....one large radar aparatus on top and the high voltage equipmnet inside, dozen of cables coming through the openings to the rooftop. We know that in Breslau there was a very secret radar reserach facility also involved in ray weapons research (ray jamming aircraft engines and cooking pilotes inside of the planes)
Not Breslau, but Wrocław, because the Germans lost the war and the city will be called that as long as the Polish army is stronger than the Bundeswehr and at least one Pole lives in this world. Let's not forget about the formal American occupation of Germany, which continues to this day ;-)
@@ZdronaPL I believe in using the name relevant to the time period being discussed. For example if I am discussing St Petersburg during Soviet times, I will refer to it as Leningrad. Additionally, the difference between endonym vs exonym also can change what people/places are called. Alemania, Deutschland, and Niemcy are all legitimate names for Germany.
Looking forward to watch this episode. I hope you are well Tino. I'll be ready to rock! Yet coming Sunday I am committed to an appointment drinking beers, with a fellow autist at the regional festivity here in my city. And it is from 19:00 - about 21:30, when we consumed a minimum of two beers each. Which will be...while this episode is running. I will watch it, when I am home. Have a great time live all! Excuse me for not being around, but I have an alibi, and it is beer consumption.
Possibly radar , one transition flat top and the other receiver. Germany did develop some very large 360 degree rotors radar like Kernickerbine which would need to be above the tree height.. This would also explain its remote location. Interesting just the same.
Voith in Heidenheim (FRG) has a similar bunker. It is round and has a cone top. As far as i know it was used during WWII to protect relevant documentation from possible bomb raids. I think Heidenheim was never bombed. The bunker couldn't be destroyd after WWII because then the whole fa. Voith would have been blown up. The bunker stands still (I think) in the middle of fa. Voith. The round form with the cone top should be very hard to break. I was told the bunker was full of water to the ground level after WWII. Edit: Should be there in google earth: 48°40'14"N 10°09'07"E
Above ground bunkers seem counterintuitive but actually made sense in the era of dumb bombs. They are cheaper to build and were actually quite effective during WWII. The pointed tower was a type of Winkeltürme (Winkel Towers). Hard to hit from the air, and the round shape and sloping sides deflects projectile objects. They could be used to protect people, workers, administrators, communications, soldiers, etc. Ventilation was, of course important. The flat top tower is more suggestive of a flak tower but if camouflaged on top could just be a variation. Their location would be useful for the invasion of Poland or conversely protection from the Soviet Union.
If the black paint has tar in it, it is possibly for keeping water out. If the structures are air raid shelters, the one in town is very old, later ones had no windows or ventilation shafts because it was learned that openings drastically affected the people inside.
Puzzle of the week! A couple of things: The wore dangling down on "stand-offs" at 0:05? Looks a LOT like the "grounding" wire leading from a "lightning arrestor up on the "roof". "Technical use"? Not built like the "Flakturms", but how about experimental radar installations?. Germany was not far behind Britain in radar research; leapfrogging it several times, especially with "steerable" units that could provide altitude data as well as the basic "direction and speed".. "Flat-top" for the antenna array and the pointy one for the operators? Pre-war experimentation ,out in the "boonies? What else was lurking around Breslau?
They feel like an experimental bunker... Round maybe a little more complicated to build but also stronger and better equipped to deal with shells hitting it. Only one angle would be dead on, the other angles deflect the shell much better...
Cant help but notice the acoustics inside. You only create a round building for a couple of purposes. Least resistance for sound or energy? No hard corners for a blast to consolidate its energy. Theres no way this was used for storage. Something was tested here. You would not need that much electricity for a storage facility. The size, shape, pattern and location of the "vent holes" has something to do with its purpose. This was most certainly not a bunker or air raid shelter. Those are my thoughts.
Looks a lot like a water storage tank, we have them in various size capacity for different sections of the city where elevation causes water system pressure problems
Project "Knickebein". One guess is that it is a test facility for night bombing with two intercoursing morse radiosignals. The Luftwaffe built huge versions of the antennas to provide much greater accuracy at long range, named Knickebein and X-Gerät. These were used during the early stages of "The Blitz" with great effect, in one case laying a strip of bombs down the centerline of a factory deep in England. That before successful English jamming...
The pointy "bunker" was constructed to deflect bombing and probably housed troops gaurding the prison or were deployed in the event of an escape or riot.
The Bunkers had different forms, some were even built to appear like a church. It's one bunker at the great Markets in Cologne that is like that. The overall structure was simplistic and uniform or limited to only a few variants to accelerate and simplify the process of building. On the other hand, there could be a change in the purpose of these buildings within the time of their construction due to external incidents.
The mid upper floors internal support structure (25:10) reminds me of the "Henge" structures supposedly used to test the Die Glocke. It's a common building method for round building structure of huge weight so they may have nothing in common.
its interesting that the main entry door was sealed off. after it was built. on the platform under the awning theres a door size rectangular shape like a door opening used to be there. that concrete is a brighter color grey.
Many such structures were for anti-aircraft command and control as well as safe havens for security and party officials during air raids. The flatroof would likely have had one large calibre cannon for anti-aircraft against bombers as well as 4 quad 20mm or 2 37 and 2 quad 20s for point defense since suppression of flak was a thing back then. Or a radar set as others suggest. Flak of course is "FLiegerAbewehrKannone" which gives you an idea how important it was. Germany invested massive amounts of resources into AAA to prove to the people that it was doing all it could against the bomber streams.
The cross cut plan of the larger bunker shows the elevator shaft with rather tiny openings to get things in and out of the elevator. This leads me to believe the elevator may not be meant for people or large pieces of equipment but rather for paperwork, messages or small items and parts. This would make the intended purpose of the bunker not very likely to be storage or ammunition, ordinance or even parts of vehicles but rather communication (telephone switchboard maybe) or things like that.
When you first got inside and then descended down the floors, it reminded me of a Titan II missile complex control room silo only above ground. The location is in the relative center of the New Germany, a long distance from any kind of attack coming from the borders. So the question is, were they confident enough in their rocket program that they got a head start on building a launch complex to be ready for the delivery of rockets? Food for thought.
joking aside Tino -that assent/decent was dangerous/ill prepared -be careful mate -dont want you getting in the newspapers!! -take lids/lights and line -good to go --lots of love timothy
18:36 However, a lot of heavy goods cannot have been stored there. The concrete ceilings are very thin and have only a limited load-bearing capacity. It is rather unlikely that this bunker served as a protected storage facility.
The flat reminds me of a munitions storage bunker. Wall thickness reinforced floors explosion relief vents top and bottom of floors and in wall holes. If there is a garden on top filled soil that might have been to hold water to dampen upward force of explosion. It would be interesting to know id the structures was below the horizon around it or if there was an earth berm around it. Whatever it was they are cool and obviously repurposible ...typically, German thinking.😉
The henge, an installation to train the rigging of a circular space station in LEO, see Hermann Noordung circular space station as a wheel with spokes out of steel cables, or the Wernher von Braun 1945 circular space station. At Breslau there was the secret Special Projects Group Breslau, see the transcript of Hans Göbel, I found in internet, he worked near the Autobahn München Salzburg operating exotic air vehicles, he was captured 1945 by U.S. troops and the German told the U.S. soldiers some tales about otherworldly space crafts, the propaganda stories still today in use. Göbel was in Nevada underground installations, flying German crafts which were built for the Americans post war, KPR Researcher, Book Author
I would assume that these are experimental buildings. To choose the best option. The inside is the same, but there are two roof options. There are no traces of complex equipment or pipes, ventilation, or mechanisms. That is, only the design was of interest to the builders. And based on these results, other bunkers were built.
Name of location Wrocław. One oldest city in Poland was funded by duke Wrocisław, and it was also a first city name. Using name Breslau is not appropriate :/
You have to consider that Breslau, in the mid 1930's when the bunkers were planned and constructed, was near the border of Poland and, further away, the border with Czechoslovakia. I assume the bunkers were to planned to protect military communications in the region prior to the annexation of Czechoslovakia. The war nearly began in 1938 with the Germans demanding Sudetenland and it's ethnic German population, which Great Britain and France handed over to Hitler to avoid war. Nazi Germany knew war was coming, and prepared accordingly, although Hitler thought the war would only start in the 1940's. Because of the 1938 scare, Great Britain ramped up it's production of military arms, aircraft, ships and ammunition.
Design is weird. Only entrance and exit way high.Even if it was used as storage the platform is small. Wonder if they used a block and tackle to lift things up there? Got me wondering.
Could these have been early attempts at a Large Hadron Collider?....model types to prove a concept?might explain or theorize why some tunnel systems were sealed,to hide the circular tunnels?,just throwing rocks into the pond here lol
Damn US education system! Take the formula for the circumference and area of a square and compare it with the formula of the circumference and area of a circle. Then you know why a lot of things are round. The ratio of the area to circumference is the least of a circle - therefore less concrete is needed! Beste Grüße!
Test buildings for Germania? The cabling off each branch inside was for sensing subsidence I would guess, overkill cable size for lighting and the holes to each floor was to put weights in. Berlin is built on a water table and like said, these are bult next to or on a swamp and why water is in the bottom floor. Probably similar ground as Berlin. Germania was Hitler's project for Berlin and the building were going to be bigger than other huge structures like in ancient cities. There are other buildings that are similar like the Schwerbelastungskörper.
I wouldn't build an "air raid shelter" that looks like a fuel silo from 10,000 feet. Just saying. Part of the blast from the bombs are traveling horizontally, I would be underground. Air raid shelters huh?
Powder / explosives storage? The design really doesn't make much sense for any practical use I can think of. My mind keeps going back to either drying something or keeping something dry.
or test station for a circular space battle station to train astronauts living in space, see Wohnrad von Hermann Noordung and Fliegenfalle, Riese, test rig for rigging the steel cables with hub in the center of the Wohnrad, KPR Book Author
It looks as if it was never used for its intended or any other purpose Built before the war and then abandoned as its intended use was no longer there.
sooo.. i have a whole list of things id consider suspect with this place and the explanation of use. if those where power cables. how many terawatts of power would that be? you could run a whole factory off 3-4 power cables of that size. high security, tall floors. a roof a little thin. a tube down the center.. this is a machine. and then... that red water.
What amazes me is the amount of cement used. Setting up concrete forms supposedly by prisoners who dont want to do it. Forced labor. But yet well built. I dont get it
These maybe part of Architect Speers devices to see if the ground was suitable for Hitlers Germania buildings and tunnels. That the ground could handle the new buildings weight.
Round "Hochbunker" are not uncommon, you can find them in Hamburg and Bochum too, in Bresau there also is a round Bunker Hospital bunker. According to legends in Breslau nuclear reactor research took place in some round bunkers but I dont have more informations. Its a legend by the poles. For me the round bunker out there in the nowhere was involved in Radar research....one large radar aparatus on top and the high voltage equipmnet inside, dozen of cables coming through the openings to the rooftop. We know that in Breslau there was a very secret radar reserach facility also involved in ray weapons research (ray jamming aircraft engines and cooking pilotes inside of the planes)
Definitely a radio bunker. the many pipes that go in at the top were for the cables to the transmission towers, the window-sized openings on the floor were additional ventilation
As always TINO......REALLY GOOD STUFF !!!! Again, thank you and please keep it coming.
Round "Hochbunker" are not uncommon, you can find them in Hamburg and Bochum too, in Bresau there also is a round Bunker Hospital bunker. According to legends in Breslau nuclear reactor research took place in some round bunkers but I dont have more informations. Its a legend by the poles. For me the round bunker out there in the nowhere was involved in Radar research....one large radar aparatus on top and the high voltage equipmnet inside, dozen of cables coming through the openings to the rooftop. We know that in Breslau there was a very secret radar reserach facility also involved in ray weapons research (ray jamming aircraft engines and cooking pilotes inside of the planes)
Not Breslau, but Wrocław, because the Germans lost the war and the city will be called that as long as the Polish army is stronger than the Bundeswehr and at least one Pole lives in this world. Let's not forget about the formal American occupation of Germany, which continues to this day ;-)
I translated a sign in the woods in Austria that said something of this nature, I’ve never heard of such a thing before that.
Ny first tought was radar.
@@ZdronaPL I believe in using the name relevant to the time period being discussed. For example if I am discussing St Petersburg during Soviet times, I will refer to it as Leningrad.
Additionally, the difference between endonym vs exonym also can change what people/places are called. Alemania, Deutschland, and Niemcy are all legitimate names for Germany.
@@ZdronaPLyawn. If one is to research the matter, do you think one will get further using the name Wroclaw or Breslau?
Looking forward to watch this episode. I hope you are well Tino. I'll be ready to rock! Yet coming Sunday I am committed to an appointment drinking beers, with a fellow autist at the regional festivity here in my city. And it is from 19:00 - about 21:30, when we consumed a minimum of two beers each. Which will be...while this episode is running. I will watch it, when I am home. Have a great time live all! Excuse me for not being around, but I have an alibi, and it is beer consumption.
Possibly radar , one transition flat top and the other receiver. Germany did develop some very large 360 degree rotors radar like Kernickerbine which would need to be above the tree height.. This would also explain its remote location. Interesting just the same.
Looks like a water tower? G8 video thanks 🎉🎉
Thank you Tino 👍
Voith in Heidenheim (FRG) has a similar bunker. It is round and has a cone top. As far as i know it was used during WWII to protect relevant documentation from possible bomb raids. I think Heidenheim was never bombed. The bunker couldn't be destroyd after WWII because then the whole fa. Voith would have been blown up. The bunker stands still (I think) in the middle of fa. Voith. The round form with the cone top should be very hard to break. I was told the bunker was full of water to the ground level after WWII.
Edit: Should be there in google earth: 48°40'14"N 10°09'07"E
Thats a Winkelturm shelter ;-)
The forested bunker looks and feels technical in nature: a communications hub, a transformer shed for a complex that never was...
Above ground bunkers seem counterintuitive but actually made sense in the era of dumb bombs. They are cheaper to build and were actually quite effective during WWII. The pointed tower was a type of Winkeltürme (Winkel Towers). Hard to hit from the air, and the round shape and sloping sides deflects projectile objects. They could be used to protect people, workers, administrators, communications, soldiers, etc. Ventilation was, of course important. The flat top tower is more suggestive of a flak tower but if camouflaged on top could just be a variation. Their location would be useful for the invasion of Poland or conversely protection from the Soviet Union.
It was built to confuse Tino !......:P
Hey Tino! Found you again while scrolling! Glad to see you're still at it!
Thank you Tino
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If the black paint has tar in it, it is possibly for keeping water out.
If the structures are air raid shelters, the one in town is very old, later ones had no windows or ventilation shafts because it was learned that openings drastically affected the people inside.
Puzzle of the week!
A couple of things:
The wore dangling down on "stand-offs" at 0:05?
Looks a LOT like the "grounding" wire leading from a "lightning arrestor up on the "roof".
"Technical use"? Not built like the "Flakturms", but how about experimental radar installations?. Germany was not far behind Britain in radar research; leapfrogging it several times, especially with "steerable" units that could provide altitude data as well as the basic "direction and speed".. "Flat-top" for the antenna array and the pointy one for the operators?
Pre-war experimentation ,out in the "boonies?
What else was lurking around Breslau?
interesting humm ty Tino
Good video thanks tino 🎉🎉
What have you brought us this week, I missed the beginning, I bet the stream was fun with this one.
They feel like an experimental bunker... Round maybe a little more complicated to build but also stronger and better equipped to deal with shells hitting it. Only one angle would be dead on, the other angles deflect the shell much better...
Yes I agree Tino the air raid shelter use doesn't really make sense especially with loading docks on every one of them .Great video as usual cheers.
Very cool, damn strange but very cool.
The flat top one would have been a good anti-aircraft site . Space for ammo and man power
Artillery and anti-aircraft guns on a flat roof
This one scheduled to watch tonight sorry I missed the premiere
ONE of the best regards Old mate
Use your inner Farrell Tino. Great vid
Think high voltage!!!
Even if we don't know what it is, it's obvious that Tino was in paradise in there :)
I think the Deibner connection should be explored
Subtle hint!!!!!!!!
Think The Henge
Look at the support pillars…..
Cant help but notice the acoustics inside. You only create a round building for a couple of purposes. Least resistance for sound or energy? No hard corners for a blast to consolidate its energy. Theres no way this was used for storage. Something was tested here. You would not need that much electricity for a storage facility. The size, shape, pattern and location of the "vent holes" has something to do with its purpose. This was most certainly not a bunker or air raid shelter. Those are my thoughts.
good stuff
Looks a lot like a water storage tank, we have them in various size capacity for different sections of the city where elevation causes water system pressure problems
Project "Knickebein". One guess is that it is a test facility for night bombing with two intercoursing morse radiosignals. The Luftwaffe built huge versions of the antennas to provide much greater accuracy at long range, named Knickebein and X-Gerät. These were used during the early stages of "The Blitz" with great effect, in one case laying a strip of bombs down the centerline of a factory deep in England. That before successful English jamming...
The pointy "bunker" was constructed to deflect bombing and probably housed troops gaurding the prison or were deployed in the event of an escape or riot.
First thought on this is for food or grain storage. But, the ventilation and humidity might need more control.
Always ask local pensioners what went on. They almost always know. Keeping secrets is almost impossible.
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Thank you for sharing this
Love the cuckoo bird in the back ground.
I did think they were real I had to Google it after watching this. Beautiful sound.😊
The Bunkers had different forms, some were even built to appear like a church. It's one bunker at the great Markets in Cologne that is like that. The overall structure was simplistic and uniform or limited to only a few variants to accelerate and simplify the process of building. On the other hand, there could be a change in the purpose of these buildings within the time of their construction due to external incidents.
The mid upper floors internal support structure (25:10) reminds me of the "Henge" structures supposedly used to test the Die Glocke. It's a common building method for round building structure of huge weight so they may have nothing in common.
its interesting that the main entry door was sealed off. after it was built.
on the platform under the awning theres a door size rectangular shape like a door opening used to be there. that concrete is a brighter color grey.
Many such structures were for anti-aircraft command and control as well as safe havens for security and party officials during air raids. The flatroof would likely have had one large calibre cannon for anti-aircraft against bombers as well as 4 quad 20mm or 2 37 and 2 quad 20s for point defense since suppression of flak was a thing back then. Or a radar set as others suggest. Flak of course is "FLiegerAbewehrKannone" which gives you an idea how important it was. Germany invested massive amounts of resources into AAA to prove to the people that it was doing all it could against the bomber streams.
The cross cut plan of the larger bunker shows the elevator shaft with rather tiny openings to get things in and out of the elevator. This leads me to believe the elevator may not be meant for people or large pieces of equipment but rather for paperwork, messages or small items and parts. This would make the intended purpose of the bunker not very likely to be storage or ammunition, ordinance or even parts of vehicles but rather communication (telephone switchboard maybe) or things like that.
Thanks :)
Tino have you ever done any research on the Archie Bunker's?
I guess Tino left this one to Edith... and the Polak Meathead...
@@edczajkowski4229 no I can't say that I have
Is that the fictional character from the 70-ties from "All in the Family"?
@@Incorruptus1yes ..
Thanks for reminding, gotta look into that good ol' stuff again 🤣🤣
When you first got inside and then descended down the floors, it reminded me of a Titan II missile complex control room silo only above ground. The location is in the relative center of the New Germany, a long distance from any kind of attack coming from the borders. So the question is, were they confident enough in their rocket program that they got a head start on building a launch complex to be ready for the delivery of rockets? Food for thought.
looks like the one in Hamburg in design
send coordinate
The redecorating cost would be outrageous😅
at 16:20 when u finally get inside it almost looks like the inside of early atlas missile control room
joking aside Tino -that assent/decent was dangerous/ill prepared -be careful mate -dont want you getting in the newspapers!! -take lids/lights and line -good to go --lots of love timothy
18:36 However, a lot of heavy goods cannot have been stored there. The concrete ceilings are very thin and have only a limited load-bearing capacity. It is rather unlikely that this bunker served as a protected storage facility.
Many had turrets on top. Round is much more stable.
Ok well that's a wierd one. Somebody must know so maybe pester the Breslau council and get access to theirs.
Looked like gun slits around outside wall on one floor
The flat reminds me of a munitions storage bunker. Wall thickness reinforced floors explosion relief vents top and bottom of floors and in wall holes. If there is a garden on top filled soil that might have been to hold water to dampen upward force of explosion. It would be interesting to know id the structures was below the horizon around it or if there was an earth berm around it. Whatever it was they are cool and obviously repurposible ...typically, German thinking.😉
This is a cooling tower for electrical transformers.
That Lower Floor Makes me Think of The Henge
The henge, an installation to train the rigging of a circular space station in LEO, see Hermann Noordung circular space station as a wheel with spokes out of steel cables, or the Wernher von Braun 1945 circular space station. At Breslau there was the secret Special Projects Group Breslau, see the transcript of Hans Göbel, I found in internet, he worked near the Autobahn München Salzburg operating exotic air vehicles, he was captured 1945 by U.S. troops and the German told the U.S. soldiers some tales about otherworldly space crafts, the propaganda stories still today in use. Göbel was in Nevada underground installations, flying German crafts which were built for the Americans post war, KPR Researcher, Book Author
I would assume that these are experimental buildings. To choose the best option. The inside is the same, but there are two roof options. There are no traces of complex equipment or pipes, ventilation, or mechanisms. That is, only the design was of interest to the builders. And based on these results, other bunkers were built.
7:10 bunker in Wrocław is currently used as a storage warehouse.
I figured there was some commercial use for it, but there are a few of them, and I want to know where the lost one was.... tall order lol
sloping chutes look like standard "Bunker Emergency Exits" - pull a sliding door, sand drains out ??
That hole in the side that sloped down may have been a coal chute...
Heating the structure would keep the flat roof snow free in the winter
Name of location Wrocław. One oldest city in Poland was funded by duke Wrocisław, and it was also a first city name. Using name Breslau is not appropriate :/
I know but you know my maps are from 1945 sooo lol
@@tinostruckmann this is just a friendly reminder 🙂
I didn't notice any toilets there. Clearly, for storage and why so complex construction? One to ask our Russian friends at a later date.
Great vid mate
the only reason i could think of why you would put lots of ventilation on opposing sides is drying something.
If built in 1938 maybe munitions bunkers? Chemical Weapons possibly?
Round could also be because round is more robust.
Interesting design , makes wounder if it was finished before the end of the war?
You have to consider that Breslau, in the mid 1930's when the bunkers were planned and constructed, was near the border of Poland and, further away, the border with Czechoslovakia.
I assume the bunkers were to planned to protect military communications in the region prior to the annexation of Czechoslovakia.
The war nearly began in 1938 with the Germans demanding Sudetenland and it's ethnic German population, which Great Britain and France handed over to Hitler to avoid war.
Nazi Germany knew war was coming, and prepared accordingly, although Hitler thought the war would only start in the 1940's.
Because of the 1938 scare, Great Britain ramped up it's production of military arms, aircraft, ships and ammunition.
Should have taken a sample of that water , might have given some clues . Did you have your Geiger counter you ?
They could of course be built as water towers
Design is weird. Only entrance and exit way high.Even if it was used as storage the platform is small. Wonder if they used a block and tackle to lift things up there? Got me wondering.
Hmmm, not waters storage, not grain storage, the elevator only big enough for "ammo boxes" ???
Radio or signal intelligence. The roundness is fore taking a nearby blast! Thats my guess.
Could these have been early attempts at a Large Hadron Collider?....model types to prove a concept?might explain or theorize why some tunnel systems were sealed,to hide the circular tunnels?,just throwing rocks into the pond here lol
Could it have had anti aircraft guns on the roof?
Normaly lift ,airshafts, to a bunker.
Damn US education system! Take the formula for the circumference and area of a square and compare it with the formula of the circumference and area of a circle. Then you know why a lot of things are round. The ratio of the area to circumference is the least of a circle - therefore less concrete is needed! Beste Grüße!
Airraid detection using resonance
I think the Deibner connection should be explored
Subtle hint!!!!!!!!
If they were built in 1938 that would be a year _before_ Diebner had his idea of using nuclear energy for military purposes.
Test buildings for Germania? The cabling off each branch inside was for sensing subsidence I would guess, overkill cable size for lighting and the holes to each floor was to put weights in. Berlin is built on a water table and like said, these are bult next to or on a swamp and why water is in the bottom floor. Probably similar ground as Berlin. Germania was Hitler's project for Berlin and the building were going to be bigger than other huge structures like in ancient cities. There are other buildings that are similar like the Schwerbelastungskörper.
I never heard of "Schwerbelastungskörper" before but after a quick search I think your theory is correct.
Flak tower
I wouldn't build an "air raid shelter" that looks like a fuel silo from 10,000 feet. Just saying.
Part of the blast from the bombs are traveling horizontally, I would be underground. Air raid shelters huh?
Could it have been a grain store with the angled entry point where a lifting Olga was installed
Holes in the side and also the top
Makes me think of a explosive test facility
There is a similar building at Royal Ordnance in Lancashire
Maybe most of the writing was on the doors.
I think it was for radar
Vault maybe?
Heavy water?
The power cables was to monitor the buildings sinking rate and condition.
Im going to say Nuclear Research/Association 👍
Also
500m of each other. Wonder if that's significant??
maybe usedto produce a hazardous gas then release it to atmosphere nearby?
Powder / explosives storage?
The design really doesn't make much sense for any practical use I can think of.
My mind keeps going back to either drying something or keeping something dry.
Round, lots of power: synchrotron?
or test station for a circular space battle station to train astronauts living in space, see Wohnrad von Hermann Noordung and Fliegenfalle, Riese, test rig for rigging the steel cables with hub in the center of the Wohnrad, KPR Book Author
Yes, a synchrotron......nearly ten years before it was invented.
It looks as if it was never used for its intended or any other purpose Built before the war and then abandoned as its intended use was no longer there.
sooo.. i have a whole list of things id consider suspect with this place and the explanation of use. if those where power cables. how many terawatts of power would that be? you could run a whole factory off 3-4 power cables of that size. high security, tall floors. a roof a little thin. a tube down the center.. this is a machine. and then... that red water.
What amazes me is the amount of cement used. Setting up concrete forms supposedly by prisoners who dont want to do it. Forced labor. But yet well built. I dont get it
These maybe part of Architect Speers devices to see if the ground was suitable for Hitlers Germania buildings and tunnels. That the ground could handle the new buildings weight.
Or radar?
Round "Hochbunker" are not uncommon, you can find them in Hamburg and Bochum too, in Bresau there also is a round Bunker Hospital bunker. According to legends in Breslau nuclear reactor research took place in some round bunkers but I dont have more informations. Its a legend by the poles. For me the round bunker out there in the nowhere was involved in Radar research....one large radar aparatus on top and the high voltage equipmnet inside, dozen of cables coming through the openings to the rooftop. We know that in Breslau there was a very secret radar reserach facility also involved in ray weapons research (ray jamming aircraft engines and cooking pilotes inside of the planes)
tyskerne eksperimenterede med flyairodynamik i runde bunkere
Small power station? fueld by coal/coke?
Gas and water storage
I bet they both stored ammo and they had an anti aircraft gun on top of the flat one. Or maybe a searvh light.