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Former US and German Army Training Area „TENNENLOHE“
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:49 pm
by mreheater72
Hi guys,
today I used my free day for a trip to the former US and German Army Training Area „TENNENLOHE“ northwest of Nürnberg (Nuremburg) with my bike. The training here stopped with the begin of the nineties with withdrawal of US troops from Nuremberg (Bavaria Germany). Today the site is a nature protection area. I ride higgledy-piggledy 33 km through the area, enjoyed the nice weather and great scenery and took some photos:
Former gasoline storage outside
Former gasoline storage inside
Former gasoline storage inside
Former shooting stand
By the way I found some empty dark brown MRE pouches, an earplug case, some pads from tank chains an even some empty cartridges.
So long mreheater72
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 2:55 pm
by kman
Interesting pics - thanks for sharing!
Training Ground
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:30 pm
by jfko6
MreHeater:
Good photos. I've planning a similar base show and tell for these forums including a bike excursion. I think you will enjoy them.
Stay Tuned.
JFK
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 7:46 pm
by Baldy
I enjoyed the photos, thank you for sharing them.
Don't know if this has already been covered here, but there are quite a few 'urban exploration' websites that deal with abandoned Cold War installations, e.g.:
http://www.century20war.co.uk/index.html
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/index.shtml
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/for ... ay.php?f=3 - this site has closed, but the forum archives remain
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:39 am
by Alter Mann
well that used to be my "playground" when i was young-still visiting the area from time to time, if you need a guided tour let me know, i can show you some more bunkers/installations/firing ranges
Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 10:37 am
by mreheater72
Alter Mann wrote:well that used to be my "playground" when i was young-still visiting the area from time to time, if you need a guided tour let me know, i can show you some more bunkers/installations/firing ranges
That sounds very interesting! Will write PM! Thanks mreheater72
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 12:27 pm
by mreheater72
Alter Mann wrote:well that used to be my "playground" when i was young-still visiting the area from time to time, if you need a guided tour let me know, i can show you some more bunkers/installations/firing ranges
Yesterday my nephew and me again made a tour in “Tennenlohe”, former US training area under guidance of German forum member “Alter Mann”
. Here are some photos:
On top of a mound that was used to "catch" bullets:
An old look-out (observation point?):
MRE-lunch on the look-out
:
„Alter Mann” thanks a lot!! It was a great day
!
So long mreheater72
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 12:39 pm
by kman
Looks like a fun trip - thanks for sharing the pics!
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:00 pm
by norge
nice pictures
do you have pictures of your finds,like mre wraps and so on?
cheers from norge
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 2:54 pm
by Alter Mann
was a nice trip, thanks again for the cake, very tasty
too bad we did not have nice weather, as usual it was sunny today...