German Aircraft Engine Repair Facility

Near the wine-growing town of Hagenbrunn in Lower Austria lie the remains of a Daimler-Benz (DB 600/601) aircraft engine repair facility.
A 75 meter long concrete building with one meter thick reinforced concrete walls. The building is one long structure with no interior walls and is surrounded by earthen berms.
There are numerous bullet holes on the outside. The high concentration of bullet holes and other structural damage shows that at the end of the war the Soviets swept through these buildings and showed no mercy.
This hardened concrete building is all that remains of the workshop where civilians and prisoners of war repaired Daimler-Benz 600 and 601 (DB 600/601) aircraft engines, the liquid-cooled fuel-injected inverted V12 engine that powered the Messerschmitt Bf 110 and Heinkel He 111 .

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Source

• Text: Raymond White
• Photos: Raymond White
• Whitehousetravel.com