Strasse Army Ammunition Plant, Military ammunition ruins in Nersingen, Germany

The Heeresmunitionsanstalt Straß is a former munitions facility in the Klassenhartwald forest between Straß, Fahlheim and Bibertal, covering about 186 hectares with 20 km of roads and rail tracks. It includes four bunkers for chemical warfare agents and a 40-hectare secret V2 rocket depot added in 1943. The site is now owned by the Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben and is to be converted to civilian use.

The Wehrmacht built the Muna Straß in the Klassenhartwald forest between Straß, Fahlheim and Bibertal, where it processed and stored infantry, engineer and artillery ammunition up to 64 cm calibre. Four bunkers held chemical warfare agents, and from 1943 a secret 40-hectare compound stored V2 rockets. On 23 April 1945 Major Jürgens handed the gas-munition bunkers to advancing US troops; the Americans later shipped the agents away by rail and cleared the site of explosives by 1953.

The abandoned structures show how ammunition production was organized in the 20th century and what spaces were needed for it. You can still understand today how such a facility operated.

The site covers about 186 hectares with 20 km of roads and rail tracks, now owned by the Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben and slated for civilian use. It lies in the Klassenhartwald between Straß, Fahlheim and Bibertal, near the Ulm–Augsburg railway. Stay on marked paths: the grounds were only systematically cleared of explosive material in 1953, and uncleared remnants may remain.

Many people do not know that after the war the site continued to function as a military base under American control and was only much later completely abandoned. This period of use left its own marks on the grounds, making the post-1945 history visible.