The Atomkeller-Museum at Haigerloch

The Atomkeller (former cavern research site) is located directly beneath the Schloßkirche (castle church) (see white arrow).

Die deutsche Version finden Sie hier.

Haigerloch - the small town at the border of the Schwäbische Alb, around 40 km away from the town of Tübingen, was the site, where the last German experiments on nuclear fission were conducted during World War II by the research group of Werner Heisenberg, Carl-Friedrich von Weizsäcker. and Karl Wirtz.

The New-York-Times wrote:

Haigerloch - A Small Town With a Footnote To History

Index

• A photograph of the arrangement at Haigerloch.

• A construction plan of the Atomkeller.

• The beginning of all that - the prehistory

• The experiment B8 at Haigerloch

• The end - the ALSOS-Mission

• The Museum at Haigerloch

• Parts of an Interview with Werner Heisenberg on Nuclear Energy Development in Germany during World War II (only available in English)

• Original sound recordings and references.

More

• Deutsches Museum in München gets the papers of the German nuclear research during World War II (only in German)
• Index of the formerly secret papers on the German nuclear research during World War II available in the archive of the Town of Haigerloch (only available in German)

Interesting Links:

• Biography of Werner Heisenberg
• Biography of Albert Einstein
• Center for History of Physics (American Institute of Physics), ultimate source for many links related to the history of science
• Deutsches Museum München
• Dr. Helmut Rechenberg, (Curator of the Werner-Heisenberg-Archive), Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut)