Urban warfare in “Schnöggersburg“ – the newest Bundeswehr ghost town

Schnöggersburg, situated in the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heath north of Magdeburg, is a new Bundeswehr training facility. In future it will be used to train combat units in house-to-house fighting in a typical urban environment. The “Schnöggersburg Training City” consists of more than 500 buildings, 4 different city districts, sewers, an industrial zone, a metro tunnel, forest areas, 16,5 km of streets and a river 22 m wide. The development even contains religious buildings. All in all the training site covers a