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

[RolandF]

Hi Marc,
yes, I have read this topic and I´ve tried to get more information. Of corse I know the Bodenwöhr-Cham Mtt production line because it is a parallel to the Flossenbürg-Vilseck Production line. But only connected by production sites for the minor accessoires. In both cases the backbone is the railway net of the Reichsbahn, until the birds have been airworthy. After that the distribution was rather easy.
The photograph of the Bf109 being pulled from Michelsdorf through the centre of Cham to Cham freight yard is very interesting, but if I´d show you the tranport route of the wingless Bf109 fuselages from KZ Flossenbürg production site to Flossenbürg railway station you´d certainly regard this as more than adventurous and it shows the difficulties Mtt had to cope with for the sake of concealment.
And - the designations of the production sites are misleading. For secrecy purposes, I presume. The records name the next larger town - little settlements with a railway station in most cases.
Mtt Flossenbürg is KZ Flossenbürg
Mtt Flossenbürg is Altenhammer
Mtt Vilseck is Heringnohe
Mtt Bodenwöhr is Mappach
Mtt Cham is Michelsdorf
and so on, so it is difficult to keep track. I am sure there are no files in the respective town administrations, at least none about technical details and production. If not in hands of EADS most material might be in US hands.
I tried to get plans of Heringnohe airfield but to no avail. At least I discovered the corpus of the secondary railway track leading from Vilseck to Heringnohe airfield. The site itself nowadays is part of US Grafenwöhr training ground and thus not accessible. Even the ultra-light gliders weren´t allowed to land there after 9/11.
Concerning the Wertheim caption I haven´t found mentioned this site in any publication. Even the list of reparation sites in Germany lists it, though tiniest sites like Pfreimd and Neustadt are mentioned. But that´s no proof because Vilseck and Cham are missing...

http://www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de/Re...chelt35-47.pdf

Other lists are including the above-mentioned sites - but not "Wertheim":

http://images.library.wisc.edu/Histo...sdam.i0012.pdf

To be honest, any of the before-mentioned sites except from KZ Flossenbürg might be "Wertheim". Dense pine woods were the reason for Mtt to disperse their production into the Northern Bavarian forests.

Regards

Roland