Tank Bunkermuseum Wurzenpaß - Austria
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Tank Bunkermuseum Wurzenpaß - Austria
Waymark Code: WMEG8R
Location: Kärnten, Austria
Date Posted: 05/26/2012
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member WanderingAus
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This Artillery stands in the Bunkermuseum Wurzenpass.
It was from the "Österreichischen Bundesheer".

"During the" Cold War "Austria should remain through a network of bunkers and barriers spared an attack. Meanwhile, all equipment dismantled and scrapped the weapons. Only the exceptionally extensive facilities of the fortifications (1963-1995 built and um-/ausgebaut) at the Wurzenpass federal highway B109 in the triangle (A-SLO-I) remain - and its most secret and locked gates are open since August 2005 ...

The Bunker Museum at Wurzenpass / Carinthia is unique in Austria. It is part of a comprehensive project that explores the history of this section also Austrian and security and defense policy should be documented and presented. This is a central collection of materials based on and expanded. The information collected is currently being worked up in a dissertation and see the museum as soon as possible and be on this site.

The project is a private initiative that is supported by the Defense Department. The project operator was itself divided on the root pass / Carinthia as a militia soldier and civilian was professionally for two decades as a public worker in the Department of Defense operates. As the last commander of the disbanded "lock company WURZEN/73" He wants to get the previously never written history of the space defense, fortifications and blocking force of posterity.
are covered in depth ... "- Source: (visit link)
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