{"id":9617,"date":"2010-06-17T09:51:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T07:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.it.tarnow.pl\/stepina-cieszyna-hitlers-bunker\/"},"modified":"2019-04-03T15:15:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:15:16","slug":"stepina-cieszyna-hitlers-bunker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.it.tarnow.pl\/en\/worth-seeing\/other-interesting-places-in-tarnow-region\/stepina-cieszyna-hitlers-bunker\/","title":{"rendered":"St\u0119pina Cieszyna (Hitler\u2019s Bunker)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Location: <\/p>\n<p> Province: Podkarpackie<br> District: Strzy\u017cowski<br> Parish: Frysztak <\/p>\n<p> Distance from Tarnow: 53 km<br> Driving directions from Tarnow: Tarn\u00f3w \u2013 Pilzno (National Road No. 4\/73, towards Rzesz\u00f3w) \u2013 Brzostek (National Road No. 73) \u2013 Klecie (National Road No. 73) \u2013 Januszkowice \u2013 Gogo\u0142\u00f3w &#8211; St\u0119pina <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Between the villages of St\u0119pina and Cieszyna an interesting fortification built by Nazis in the years 1940-1941 is located. It\u2019s the biggest system of rail bunkers and one of the two preserved in Poland. It covers an area of 0,5 km\u00b2 and comprises 7 buildings made of reinforced concrete with barbed wire fence: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>aboveground rail-tunnel bunker \u2013 a unique example of defensive architecture of this kind in Europe<br>(length: approx 480m; width: 8,3m; height: 12m, thickness of the walls: 2m, ogival design, an entrance two-wing gate opened automatically, over the tunnel a net was spread, on which trees were planted as camouflage; inside in a special hollow there was a railway track with platforms on both sides under which some different-sized compartments are located. Access to those compartments was from the platforms.)<\/li>\n<li>aboveground bunker \u2013 engine room, formerly having power and filtering devices<br>(connected with the rail bunker by three underground passages)<\/li>\n<li>5 battle bunkers \u2013 2 guard houses (one later transformed into a loop-hole bunker) and 3 other with machine-gun stands.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n<p> In that complex from 27th to 28th August 1941 a meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini concerning military aggression against USSR took place. The bunker was large enough to hid Hitler\u2019s special train called \u201eAmerika\u201d. It is believed that Hitler returned to St\u0119pina Cieszyna on October 1941. Himmler, Keitel and Rommel together with other Wehrmacht\u2019s generals and marshals visited bunker as well. <\/p>\n<p>After the war the bunker served as a military equipment storage, than as the Fish Trade Centre (Centrala Rybna), and subsequently as a seat of Association of Agricultural Guilds. Nowadays it\u2019s the property of Frysztak commune and protected by national law under Krajowy Program Ochrony Zabytk\u00f3w Architektury Obronnej plan. All of the buildings have survived to this day in good condition and are open to the public. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> See more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frysztak.pl\/\" class=\"target_blank\">www.frysztak.pl<\/a>\n and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrota.podkarpackie.pl\/\" class=\"target_blank\">www.wrota.podkarpackie.pl<\/a>\n (Polish only) <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Location: Province: Podkarpackie District: Strzy\u017cowski Parish: Frysztak Distance from Tarnow: 53 km Driving directions from Tarnow: Tarn\u00f3w \u2013 Pilzno (National Road No. 4\/73, towards Rzesz\u00f3w) \u2013 Brzostek (National Road No. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9608,"menu_order":787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9617","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"in_menu":null,"show_date":null,"intro_text":"<p>Between the villages of St\u0119pina and Cieszyna an interesting fortification built by Nazis in the years 1940-1941 is located. 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