Test Stand VII
Test Stand VII was the principal V-2 rocket testing facility at Peenemünde Airfield and was capable of static firing rocket motors with up to 200 tons of thrust.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Ruin
- Description: Rocket testing site used by Nazi Germany during World War II
- Also known as: “Pruefstand VII Peenemuende” and “Prüfstand VII Peenemünde”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Peenemünde Airfield and Peenemünde lighthouse.
Peenemünde Airfield
Aerodrome
Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Peenemünde Airfield is an airfield on the Baltic Sea coast, north of Peenemünde, Germany. Today, round trips in light aircraft are available from Peenemünde Airfield.
Peenemünde lighthouse
Lighthouse
Peenemünde lighthouse is situated 2½ km northwest of Test Stand VII.
Historical Technical Museum, Peenemünde
Museum
Photo: Pentius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Peenemünde Historical Technical Museum, former "Peenemünde Information Centre for History and Technology", is a museum, founded in 1991, in the observation bunker and site of the former power station in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom in eastern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany. Historical Technical Museum, Peenemünde is situated 4 km southwest of Test Stand VII.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Freest and Karlshagen.
Freest
Village
Photo: Assenmacher, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Freest is a village, which is situated 6 km southwest of Test Stand VII.
Karlshagen
Village
Photo: Zacke82, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Karlshagen is a Baltic Sea resort in Western Pomerania in the north of the island Usedom, in north-eastern Germany. Karlshagen has 3,400 inhabitants and lies between Zinnowitz and Peenemünde. Karlshagen is situated 6 km south of Test Stand VII.
Kröslin
Village
Photo: Chron-Paul, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kröslin is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It consists of the villages and the islands… Kröslin is situated 6 km southwest of Test Stand VII.
Test Stand VII
- Categories: launch pad, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Peenemünde, Vorpommern-Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Thai—“Test Stand VII” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “اختبار الحامل السابع”
- Danish: “Prüfstand VII”
- German: “Prüfstand 7”
- German: “Prüfstand VII”
- Italian: “Prüfstand VII”
- Portuguese: “Estande de Teste VII”
- Thai: “แท่นทดสอบที่ 6”
- Thai: “แท่นทดสอบที่ 7”
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