Energiebunker
Wartime flak tower reborn as a solar-clad power plant, its concrete shell heating thousands of homes.
This guide to the Energiebunker in Hamburg's Wilhelmsburg district opens with a hard question: who was allowed to shelter inside this flak tower when the air raid sirens sounded in 1943, and who was left standing outside. It traces the tower's construction by the Organisation Todt using forced laborers from the Neuengamme concentration camp, the punishing pace that raised nine floors of reinforced concrete, and the cruelty of who the finished shelter was built to protect. You'll hear how the tower withstood Operation Gomorrah's firestorm and repeated strikes before the war's end. Stand at its base to take in walls up to three and a half meters thick.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.