Experience authentic guided tours at Walpersberg near Kahla (Thuringia) – right on the historic site of the Nazi armaments plant REIMAHG. Our volunteer guides explain the background in a factual, accessible way using historical documents, photographs, aerial imagery and planning sketches. Public dates with registration take place regularly; group tours are available on request.
4.8★★★★★ from 85 reviews Six-hour tour. Very knowledgeable guidance. You should be in good shape on foot. Hiking boots and long trousers recommended!
The former military grounds at Walpersberg are now owned by our association. Guided tours across parts of the extensive area – including sections that are otherwise closed – are only possible with us. This lets us provide responsible insights into a chapter of history that remained hidden for a long time.
Deepen your impressions with exhibits, maps and archival material at the Walpersberg documentation centre.
As an education partner of the German Armed Forces we offer special tours with a military history focus. We support training courses, delegations and professional visits with tailored content and well-founded historical context on site.
Here you can see the next available dates. Please register in good time to secure your place.
Tours start on the former military grounds – here you can see a group on top of Bunker 1.
Credits: Henning Knoche, Instagram: hk_fotografie_germany
Use the map to get an overview of the trails at Walpersberg. Just below you will find a compact summary of the three tour variants A, B and C. The public tours correspond to variant C and include a lunch break at the Dehnamühle.
Click one of the tour buttons to display the route on the map.
Guided walk across the former military grounds with the remaining production bunkers.
From the military grounds along the works road (south side) to the Dehnamühle, returning through the Dehnatal past halls 7 & 8 and the concrete pylons of the planned railway connection.
Across the military grounds and along the works road (south side) up to the former runway – the most comprehensive insight into the REIMAHG story.
Our volunteers guide you along the former production bunkers of the REIMAHG armaments plant at Walpersberg near Kahla (Thuringia). Using historic documents, photographs, aerial imagery and planning sketches you gain a well-founded insight into the events of 1944/45.
Learn more about the fate of more than 12,000 forced labourers from across Europe and the assembly of the first mass-produced jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 262. You will see remains of provisional production bunkers with up to four metres of reinforced concrete as well as traces of the infrastructure with several incline lifts and the concrete runway.
The circular walk leads across the former military grounds, which were in use until 1997. The special story of the relocation of German armaments production at the end of the Second World War becomes tangible here using the construction site “Lachs” as an example.
We take a lunch break along the way. Every tour also includes a visit to our documentation centre “Walpersberg – REIMAHG” in Großeutersdorf. The documentation centre complements the tours with selected exhibits, maps and archival materials. It opens after the tours and on request.
Handy folding map with the key stations, background facts and photos from our tours – perfect as a companion on site or for follow-up at home.
Highlights the “Lachs” construction site, explains the REIMAHG infrastructure and shows photo references for every stop.
Tour impressions
Impressions from the guided tours across the former military siteThe underground tunnels cannot be visited. The tour leads you across bunker remains made of reinforced concrete. Please bear this in mind when choosing clothing and footwear.
Please note our visitor regulations and liability declaration (house rules):
Exhibition & archive
The documentation centre complements the guided tours with selected exhibits, maps and archival materials. It opens after the tours and upon request.
Our documentation centre deepens what you have seen on the tour: historical exhibits, eyewitness accounts, original construction plans and objects recovered from inside the mountain. It is accessible directly after the tours and by appointment.
Inside the documentation centre we present selected exhibits about the history of the REIMAHG plant and the living conditions of the people who were forced to work here. Visitors can study plans, materials, finds and previously unpublished archival material from our research projects. The centre is deliberately compact and research-driven – it keeps growing with new findings, eyewitness sources and discoveries from the grounds.
approx. 15–30 minutes
Dorfstraße 7, 07768 Großeutersdorf
A random selection from all categories of our documentation centre
In preparation: a digital multimedia guide with map, audio, historic imagery and augmented reality. It will let you explore the site on your own while accessing background information precisely where you need it.
