Bodenwöhr Waldwerk - Mtt Bf 109 K-4 assembly lines 1944 - 1945

[RolandF]

Gentlemen,

I´d like to add a map of the Vilseck-Heringnohe and Vilseck/railway complex with the landing strip upper left and the main railway tracks running north - south. The landing strip and the surroundings are not accessible: (US training ground Grafenwoehr)

http://www.geodaten.bayern.de/Bayern...ayer=TK&step=4

Here you see the airfield railway joining the main tracks:

http://www.geodaten.bayern.de/Bayern...yer=DOP&step=2

The tracks nowadays have been removed but the curved dam is still visible, ending in a huge dam used by the still existent main railway line Weiden-Nuremberg. The railway visible on the horizon of the flickr - photos runs on a dam, too. The building style looks a lot like the Upper Palatinate...

Not lying far from the tracks I think the fuselages had been hastily "emptied" from railway wagons including the damaged Bf109s and the Me 262. Those IMO were destined for a "Zerlegebetrieb" or being repaired

The DB 605 trolleys in Wertheim are not intended for use in the open but on assembly tracks. Schmoll shows photos of DB 605s on such trolleys running on a "Feldbahn" in "Waldwerk Gauting" (= Hagelstadt).

It does not seem improbable to me whole parts of the Bodenwöhr-Cham and Flossenbürg-Vilseck production including tools and machinery were brought to Wertheim for the final assembly there.

Regards

Roland