Buchholz-Kämpen is a city-district of Witten- Herbede , which is a part of the city of Witten , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany. Buchholz-Kämpen is located about 12 kilometres southeast of the city. As at 31 December 2015 the population of the district totalled 2,788.
5-507: Edmund Geilenberg (born 13 January 1906, Witten-Buchholz-Kaempen – died 19 October 1964, Bassum ) was a German official of World War II who headed an emergency 1944 decentralization program, the Geilenbergstab or Geilenbergprogramm (Geilenberg Special Staff), to disperse Nazi Germany oil production. The program included the Cuckoo project for an underground oil plant to be "carved out of
10-467: A city-district of the newly founded city of Blankenstein . Just three years later the town of Blankenstein became a part of the city of Hattingen while Buchholz became a part of the city of Herbede. When Herbede was incorporated into Witten in 1975 Buchholz became part of the newly founded city-district Buchholz-Kämpen. Because Buchholz had previously been part of Hattingen, it is assigned phone code 02324 (Hattingen) and not 02302 (Witten). Kämpen
15-690: The Himmelsburg " North of the Mittelwerk , as well as plans for an oil facility at Ebensee . "Geilenberg used as many as 350,000 men for the repair, rebuilding, and dispersal of the bombed plants and for new underground construction [which] were incomplete when the war ended". Defenses included a 21 June 1944, order for a minimum number of flak guns to be placed at Pölitz (200), Auschwitz (200), Hamburg (200), Brüx (170, Gelsenkirchen (140), Scholven (140), Wesseling (150), Heydebreck (130), Leuna (120), Blechhammer (100), Moosbierbaum (100), and Böhlen (70); Germany and
20-600: The Second World War and the Ruhland Fischer-Tropsch plant and other synthetic oil plants were upgraded to be "hydrogenation fortresses" (e.g., the plants in the Leipzig area were protected by over 1,000 guns). In addition to increased active defenses, the facilities ( German : Hydrierfestungen ) incorporated blast walls and concrete "dog houses" around vital machinery. Similar to the technical experts transferred for
25-699: The V-2 rocket program , 7,000 engineers were released from the German Army to provide technical support for oil facilities. Witten-Buchholz-Kaempen Buchholz is one of the oldest settlement places in the Ruhr valley . About 2000 years ago the first settlers came to the valley of Buchholz. Since the 19th century there has been a steel industry in Buchholz. Until the late 1920s there were also several coal mines. In its history Buchholz belonged to several counties. In 1966 it became
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