Heeresbekleidungsamt Bernau, Military uniform manufacturing complex in Bernau bei Berlin, Germany.
The Heeresbekleidungsamt Bernau is a military uniform manufacturing complex located in Bernau bei Berlin. The site consists of eight bow-shaped buildings connected by covered passages and constructed from reinforced concrete and clinker brick.
The Reichswehr acquired the two plots around 1927; the Wehrmacht built the main and secondary camps between 1939 and 1941 and completed the secondary camp in 1942, when about 1,300 employees were moved there from Berlin after an air raid on Moabit prison. From 1945 the Soviet occupation forces ran both sites as a central supply depot for the GDR, with clothing stores, a chemical laundry, a sewing shop and a field post distribution centre. The last troops left in 1994.
The complex displays the design language of the 1930s through its characteristic vaulted concrete and brick structures. It embodies the typical layout of large production facilities from that era, which combined efficiency with functional design.
The site is split between the main office on Schwanebecker Chaussee and the secondary camp at Schönfelder Weg 17, whose arched layout is visible from the air east of Bernau's old town. The area was fenced off and guarded for years, and the Panke-Park Kulturkonvent Bernau e. V. association has offered guided tours of the secondary camp. Large parts have been cleared since 2017 for the We-Town housing project, so check access before visiting.
The secondary camp at Schönfelder Weg 17 had its own rail siding off the Berlin–Prenzlau line, and around 1,300 staff were moved there after an air raid on Moabit prison in Berlin. The Soviet depot also ran a sewing workshop alongside the laundry and field-post sorting office.
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