DWM's Werk Wittenau and Martinikenfelde, Berlin

[Vlim]

Hi,

Recently acquired a set of original photographs of DWM's Berlin-Wittenau plant. It was erected in 1907 and enlarged during 1914-1918.

Originally, it was intented as a new accomodation to replace the Karlsruhe-based ammunition plants. Problems with enlarging Berlin's Martinikenfelde plant changed that and they decided to relocate all Martinikenfelde operations to the new Wittenau location.

This also was never fully completed, because of the production increases during WW1. So in 1918, the Karlsruhe plant, the martinikenfelde plant and the Wittenau plant were all in use.

Part of the Wittenau plant later became part of DWM's spin-off, the 'Deutsche Waggon- und Maschinenfabriken'.

Parts of the Wittenau plant were completely renovated some years ago and are currently in use as the Berlin state archive, they were also in use earlier as military archives.

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