Germany
Thuringia
Nordhausen

Mittelwerk

Mittelwerk was a German World War II factory built underground in the to avoid Allied bombing. It used slave labor from the to produce V-2 ballistic missiles, V-1 flying bombs, and other weapons.
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  • Type: Bunker
  • Description: Underground rocket factory
  • Also known as: “Mittelwerk GmbH”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial and Kohnstein.

Museum
Mittelbau-Dora was a Nazi concentration camp located near in , Germany. It was established in late summer 1943 as a subcamp of , supplying slave labour from many Eastern countries occupied by Germany, for extending the nearby tunnels in the and for manufacturing the V-2 rocket and the V-1 flying bomb. is situated 470 metres south of Mittelwerk.

Peak
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The is a hill in , , 2 kilometres southwest of the village of and 3 kilometres northwest of the centre of the town of .

Spring
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is situated 1 km southeast of Mittelwerk.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Niedersachswerfen and Herreden.

Village
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is a village and a former municipality in the , in , . Since 1 January 2012, it is part of the municipality .

Village
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is a village.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 3 km west of Mittelwerk.

Mittelwerk

Latitude
51.53858° or 51° 32′ 19″ north
Longitude
10.75276° or 10° 45′ 10″ east
Open location code
9F3GGQQ3+C4
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1445799535
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
military=­bunker
Wiki­data ID
Q697933
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Swedish—“Mittelwerk” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “中部工厂”
  • Chinese: “納粹中央工廠”
  • Czech: “Mittelwerk”
  • Dutch: “Mittelwerk”
  • Finnish: “Mittelwerk”
  • French: “Mittelwerk”
  • German: “Mittelwerk GmbH”
  • German: “Mittelwerk”
  • Hebrew: “מיטלוורק”
  • Italian: “Mittelwerk”
  • Japanese: “ミッテルヴェルク”
  • Japanese: “ミッテルヴェルケ”
  • Japanese: “ミッテルワーク”
  • Latvian: “Mitelverka”
  • Latvian: “Mittelverka”
  • Latvian: “Mittelwerk”
  • Persian: “میتلورک”
  • Polish: “Mittelwerk GmbH”
  • Polish: “Mittelwerk”
  • Portuguese: “Mittelwerk”
  • Romanian: “Mittelwerk”
  • Russian: “Mittelwerk”
  • Russian: “Mittelwerke”
  • Russian: “Миттельверк”
  • Russian: “Миттельверке”
  • Spanish: “Mittelwerk”
  • Swedish: “Mittelwerk 1”
  • Swedish: “Mittelwerk 2”
  • Swedish: “Mittelwerk I”
  • Swedish: “Mittelwerk II”
  • Swedish: “Mittelwerk”
  • Swedish: “Nordwerk”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Muster ground (Roll-call square) and Informationszentrum.

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