![]() ![]() Such terrain had a beneficial effect on the set-up of factory buildings: small valleys separating sandy ridges ensured the isolation of the edifices, even in case of an accidental explosion. The southern portion of the DAG factory network was situated on a vast inland dune field. The latter has survived till this day, in Świetlicowa street ( Awaryjne district).Ī barrack camp for forced workers had been also erected, in the vicinity of current Szpitalna and Hutnicza streets. ![]() Staff was accommodated in housing estates built on purpose, in the northern sector (near today's Kliniczna street) for engineers and in the eastern part for management staff. Three departments had the largest footprint in the area: POL-Betrieb, DI-B Betrieb and TRI-Betrieb. The two main areas ( Kaltwasser and Brahnau) were linked by one road, which ran on a viaduct over the coal main railroad near the station of Bydgoszcz-Żółwin, disused today. ![]() an unfinished area of the plant, manufacturing sulfuric acid was located on the south-eastern edge of the domain.Füllstelle, ammunition handloading, including aerial bombs, artillery shells, land mines, sapper charges and small caliber ammunition.A small firing range for blasting explosives was available on site DI-B-Betrieb, production of dinitrobenzene, used in particular for missile propulsion (e.g.TRI-Betrieb, production of nitro compounds and TNT.The Eastern part ( German: DAG Brahnau, Polish: Łęgnowo), code name Kohle ( Coal) was intended for the production of blasting explosives to be incorporated into missiles, mines and bombs: NGL-Betrieb produced nitroglycerin, which, once mixed with nitrocellulose then dried gave powder dough.Shooting and artillery tests could be realized on a ballistic test site, where each batch of manufactured explosives was assessed The western part ( German: DAG Kaltwasser, Polish: Zimne Wody or cold waters), code name Torf ( Peat) was dedicated for the production of gunpowder and its derivatives: The plant was divided into two parts, separated by the longitudinal running Upper Silesia-Gdynia coal main, along which the Germans built a second track. The afforestation and the distance from the city have preserved the facility during and after the war, thus keeping secret the location and the security of the chemical and explosives production activities carried out here. Today, Łęgnowska, Nowotoruńska, Hutnicza, Chemiczna streets and the internal road network of the former Zachem chemical plant run on the ancient DAG factory area. The factory area was approximately 23 square kilometres (8.9 sq mi): for communication purposes, tens of kilometers of railway tracks, railway sidings and hundreds of kilometers of concrete slab roads were built. The factory ensemble was located and masked in the Bromberg forest, in the south-eastern part of today's Bydgoszcz. 1% of the original factory domain) to comprise the Exploseum, a Museum of Armaments Works from the DAG Fabrik Bromberg together with an open-air museum about German industrial architecture from World War II with an underground tourist route. In 2004, an Industrial and Technological Park was created, covering part of the area, and in 2011, eight building have been converted (approx. After 1945, some of the facilities have been adapted for state chemical enterprises. The project included the construction of hundreds of kilometers of roads, railway sidings and thousands of various buildings. Operating from 1939 to 1945 in the south-eastern Bydgoszcz forest, DAG Fabrik Bromberg produced propellants and explosives and realized ammunition handloading. Alfred Nobel Dynamit Aktien-Gesellschaft in Brombergīromberg Dynamit Nobel AG Factory also known as Bromberg DAG AG Factory or DAG Fabrik Bromberg was one of the largest arms factory of Dynamit Nobel during the Third Reich: covering 23 square kilometres (8.9 sq mi), it was the second most extensive DAG factory at the time, after the 35 square kilometres (14 sq mi) Kombinat DAG Alfred Nobel Christianstadt. ![]()
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