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Unread 11-07-2008, 03:27 PM   #4
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Hi,

The Mauser factory is still visible on the map, locate 'Oberndorf am Neckar' and search for the cloister building. Behind it is a railroad track, across the track there are the buildings that remain of the main complex and nowadays house Rheinmetall Defense and Mauser Messwerkzeug GmbH. In between is Otto Repa's workshop.

The local museum is housed in the former 'Schwedenbau' of the Mauser complex, while the old cloister is now a concert hall, police office and mayor's office.

This may help:




Other helpful coordinates:
Mauser, Oberndorf am Neckar: 48�°17'18.93"N - 8�°34'40.89"E
DWM, Karlsruhe branch: 49�° 0'7.03"N - 8�°23'1.17"E
DWM, Berlin branch: 52�°34'49.56"N - 13�°18'58.01"E
DWM, Lubeck branch: 53�°52'50.31"N - 10�°46'21.03"E
London, burial site of sir Hiram Stevens Maxim: 51�°26'0.89"N - 0�° 6'8.58"W
Manufacture Francaise d'Armes et Cycles, st. Etienne: 45�°25'40.29"N - 4�°24'8.19"E
Manufrance Paris office: 48�°51'45.36"N - 2�°20'31.54"E

The DWM Dorotheenstrasse location was only a sales office and it was bombed to oblivion in 1945. The plot is still vacant and the last thing I heard the Quandt family is negotiating return of ownership of the plot. You can imagine that a piece of undeveloped land in the middle of Berlin has some value now.

I visited the DWM location in Berlin Wittenau (Borsigwalde) a couple of years ago. The Berlin State Archive is housed in one of the buildings now.






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