NS-Ordensburg Vogelsang
The NS-Ordensburg Vogelsang is a building complex built by the National Socialists in the Eifel above the
Urfttalsperre (Urft Dam) on the Erpenscheid mountain
In contrast to the SS Junk School and the Reichsfuhrer School, the facility served the NSDAP between 1936 and 1939 as a training facility for the offspring of the NSDAP leadership cadre.
In total, the complex was designed for 1,000 people (500 employees and 500 guests).
The complex, which has been a listed building since 1989, has a gross floor area of more than 50,000 square meters and, after the party congress buildings in Nuremberg, with almost 100 hectares of built-up area, is the largest structural legacy of National Socialism in Germany.
After the Second World War, the complex was taken over by British forces, who set up the training area on 6,354 hectares in the surrounding area.
From 1950 to the end of 2005 the infrastructure was taken over by Belgian military forces, who set up a barracks there under the name "Camp Vogelsang" and used and managed this and the military training area until 2005.
