Heiligengeistfeld
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Heiligengeistfeld is an area of Hamburg in the St. Pauli quarter. The Hamburger Dom funfair has been held there since 1893. When the area is not used for exhibitions, circuses or the Dom it is a car p
Former Flakturm IV on Heiligengeistfeld
Flak tower
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Flak towers were large, above-ground, anti-aircraft gun blockhouse towers constructed by Nazi Germany. "Flak" is short for anti-aircraft gun in German: Flugabwehrkanone. There were eight flak tower co
Heiligengeistfeld
…to make up for its maintenance. The area has been used for exhibitions since 1863. With the intensifying Allied bombing of Hamburg the "Flak tower" Flakturm IV structure was erected on Heiligengeistfeld starting in 1942. It was both an anti-aircraft gun emplacement and air-raid shelter. The massive concrete…
The "G-tower" at Augarten, Vienna. The top of the "L-tower" is visible to the right.
Flak tower during construction (1942)
A 12.8 cm FlaK 40, the main guns of the Flak-towers, and its crew
Humboldthain Flak tower today in Berlin