Winkelturm, Bahnhof Feuerbach
At Bahnhof Feuerbach in Stuttgart, Winkelturm, Bahnhof Feuerbach is a reinforced-concrete air-raid bunker from 1939 to 1940. Its pointed profile rises 21 metres above the station. Designed by Leo Winkel and built by Wayss & Freytag, the tower contains nine above-ground floors. Those floors could shelter up to 305 people during air raids.
The pointed form was intended to deflect aerial bombs, giving the structure its striking silhouette. Materials reached the site by tram when motor-traffic restrictions complicated construction. The raw structure stood complete by 5 May 1940, while ventilation followed by October. A deep bunker joined the site in 1941.
An interior exhibition covers air-raid protection from 1933 to 1945. Nearby, a public air-raid tunnel ran 75 metres beneath the railway embankment and measured three metres wide. Toilets and electric lighting equipped the fully concreted shelter. This is the last of Stuttgart’s original four Winkeltürme and the only German example that remained a Cold War shelter.
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