The area north of the Celle district hesitate has a long military use, as early as 1870 was a shooting range for the large Celler garrison was established.
decision came after in 1932 from 1934 in the western part of this area then the army munitions plant Celle-shy.
In two areas, the northern (production and storage area) and southern (accommodation and administrative area) created to 1939, approximately 200 buildings, of which about one hundred underground bunkers with double steel doors. In addition, a rail connection to the facilities of the Muna Osthannoverschen Railways created.
were produced mainly infantry ammunition, hand grenades and antitank missiles, as well as smoke grenades and artillery shells.
production to be put in here afraid, like all other similar systems (see also main air munitions plant 1/XI Hambühren ) in the Reich, forced and foreign workers.
On 13 April 1945, was finally occupied the territory from the British army, and Muna was afraid a fight and completely handed over intact.
Soon after the war, the stored ammunition and several ammunition bunkers were blown up.
In the postwar period Celle has become a large British garrison. The Muna site in the English was afraid at first as a custodian, but was already cleared many years ago and then lay fallow for a long time.
has in the southern area of the former Muna built the army from 1965, the Freiherr-von-Fritsch-Kaserne, British, right next to the depot. Until 1968 there was a modern barracks, the home of many years parts of the Armoured Brigade 33 was. For these troops, the northern area, including the much of the former storage area of Muna, practice site location.
In the 1990s, the former British part of the army barracks been merged. As part of this merger in the course of the years most of the previously preserved historic buildings that stood in the unused depot area, was demolished.
Today, only very few buildings from the Muna-time available. You are inside the barracks and is therefore not publicly available. But in the open access western region still some of the destroyed ammunition bunkers can be found. The present condition of some of these photos document the bunker ruins of January 2011.
sources (text, extracts): www.relikte.com; www.geschichtsspuren.de; brochure "Celle in National Socialism" Reinhard Rohde and Tim Wegener; Photos: own.
