Mauser testfiring range before 1910
 

Hi,

This postcard shows the then just completed Mauser testfiring house. This building enabled the Mauser company to test their small arms in an indoor environment.

The card was sent in 1911, but other images show that the building was already standing around 1906.

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload...1911_small.jpg

This is most probably the interior of that same building, dating from around 1911. Posted this one a while ago.

http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload...ting_copy1.jpg

How'd you like to have that in your back yard?!!:jumper:

Very nice looking building, I love that style.

Ed

Really interesting.
Thanks Gerben

Well,

The discussion on the local forum continues, so I took the liberty of uploading some additional Mauser material.

The former Konigliche Gewehrfabrik was located in a Monestary in the center area of Oberndorf. The Mauser brothers took it over in 1874 and this was the start of the Mauser gun factory.

Several new sites were erected around Oberndorf during the years that followed, before WW1.

From the 1938 company history, the plant images date from around 1910:

The 'Ausseres Werk' (the 'external plant', named as it was located outside of Oberndorf).
http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/ausseres_werk.jpg

The 'Oberes Werk' (the 'upper plant' , as it lay just a bit higher on the hills surrounding Oberndorf).
http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/oberes_werk.jpg

The 'Mittleres Werk' (the original monestary):
http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/mittleres_werk.jpg

The interior of the monestary chapel. The chapel was in use as a weapons display room, the 'Waffensaal':
http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload...waffensaal.jpg

The monestary survived the war and the chapel was restored to it's pre-factory state. In the building next to it, the present Oberndorf Weapons museum found a place.

http://www.oberndorf-neckar.de/biz/o...osterinnen.jpg
(source: Oberdorf website: www.oberndorf-neckar.de)

Absolutely interesting!
Thanks for sharing. Are these photos extracted by the Mauser Jubileum book you won some weeks ago?
Ciao
Mauro

Hi Mauro,

Yes. Most are. The shooting range and the interior of the shooting range are from different sources.