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Maßweiler is a municipality in Südwestpfalz district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany . Protestant church. Maßweiler possessed a large cavern that had been used by Nazis in World War II. There were supposedly five levels in the cave, the lowest of which had trouble with occasional flooding.
USAREUR Partial Photos - Husterhoeh Ksn. Massweiler Kaserne (Massweiler Cave) (Source: Top photo - Thomas Neser; bottom photo - Walter Stutterich; both from Germany) Main gate - Massweiler Kaserne; in background are the Ordnance barracks and the mess hall (yellow building).
- The Beautiful Berchtesgaden
- Life in The Nazi Summer Homes
- What The Museums Don’T Tell You
- The Remains of An Underground City
Berchtesgaden is one of the prettiest towns in all of Europe. Surrounded on all sides by the soaring Alps, the secluded picturesque town is marked by domed church steeples, terracotta tiled houses, wild flowers and beer gardens. The river in the center of town runs with water fed from the lake of the Konigssee. The unspoiled beauty of Berchtesgaden...
Beginning around 1936, the leading figures in the Nazi party began building similarly grandiose homes near Hitler. Martin Bormann, Hitler’s private secretary and head of the Party Chancellery, was in charge of the project, which entailed clearing Obersalzberg of the farms, inns and hotels that had catered to generations of holiday makers. Soon, Goe...
There is a delicate balance between the historic importance of such sites, and the overriding compulsion to wipe it from the face of the earth. Presumably this is what led the U.S. to insist that Germany dynamited surviving structures of Obersalzberg in 1952. Museums and “Documentation Centres” were built at Obersalzberg and Nuremberg. At Obersalzb...
Descending into the basement of the hotel down a narrow stone spiral staircase, the first thing you will encounter are the old wood-lined SS cells. The surface of the tunnels begin around 250 feet under the ground. These passageways would have linked Bormann’s underground chambers directly to the Hitler’s rooms underneath the Berghof. Dripping with...
564th Military Police Company, 2009. (Source: Robert James Allison) Main gate now closed at the former Massweiler Cave Complex.
Massweiler Kaserne (Massweiler Cave), 1993 (Source: Walter Stutterich , Germany) Sign near main gate commemorating the namesake of the kaserne - Chaplain Charles P. Dayton.
Husterhoeh Kaserne. Coordinates: 49.2268°N 7.6117°E. Husterhoeh Kaserne was a military facility in Pirmasens, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Kaserne is a German loanword that means "barracks." It was a United States military base 1945–1994. Since then it is a German base, most of which has closed.
Focusing on their suffer and abuse since ancient time, the transformation of the site is the central theme and story of the scenography: from a shelter for humans to a shelter for animals. The exhibition is located in a former bunker below the animal sanctuary of TIERART in Maßweiler.
