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DSC Forst „Wald”

Water, energy and boiler houses

28 wells and the utilities that kept the complex running.

Context

Twenty-eight plant wells supplied the complex. Boiler houses, steam, electrical distribution and transformers formed the technical backbone. The surviving photograph of boiler-house walkways illustrates the scale of this infrastructure.

Key findings

The page separates securely documented facts from reconstruction. Comparative data from other DSC plants is used only when explicitly labelled as analogy.

How to read the evidence

Direct Forst records take priority. Report 133 is direct evidence for corporate structure, while its detailed technical inventory concerns Kraiburg.

Open questions

Further archival finds may refine dates, quantities and machine identifications. Uncertain points remain visibly marked.

Sources and state of research

The presentation distinguishes direct evidence, reconstruction and analogy. Old GEOS scans are not used as decorative illustrations.

  1. Fundacja Rokita - own materials and author study „Deutsche Sprengchemie Forst - Wald”.
  2. United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Report 133, Deutsche Sprengchemie GmbH, Kraiburg, Germany, 2nd ed., 1947.
  3. GKO Resolution No. 8609 ss - translation of the record concerning dismantling of the plant near Szeino/Forst.
  4. Bundesarchiv / DDB - Deutsche Sprengchemie GmbH.
  5. State Archives in Zielona Góra (Archiwum Państwowe w Zielonej Górze) - Deutsche Sprengchemie Werk Forst.
  6. G.E.O.S. Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, expert report, 1995; Preuß et al., reconstruction of the POL plant, 1994.

Photographs and source documents

Zachowane pomosty i ciągi techniczne kotłowni DSC Forst.
Source material: surviving platforms and technical structures in the DSC Forst boiler house.
Raport wywiadowczy — źródło do infrastruktury zakładu.
Source material: intelligence report concerning the plant infrastructure.