Virtual Underground City Osówka [abstract].

Jabłoński, Mateusz; Lipecki, T.; Jaśkowski, W.; Ochałek, Agnieszka

doi:10.7494/geol.2016.42.1.77

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“…It was in those chambers, after they had been made impenetrable by steel-reinforced concrete, that even more office and living spaces were supposed to be located. The construction was carried out by slave laborers coming from the "Konzentrationslager Gross-Rosen" concentration camp [25]. Moreover, the "Giant" was also the location of an auxiliary camp called "Arbeitslager Riese."…”

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Forgotten Nazi Forced Labour Camps: Arbeitslager Riese (Lower Silesia, SE Poland) and the Use of Archival Aerial Photography and Contemporary LiDAR and Ground Truth Data to Identify and Delineate Camp Areas

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The “Riese” project was a huge construction project initiated by German Nazi authorities, which was located in the northeast of the Sowie Mountains (Ger. Eulengebirge) in southwestern Poland. Construction of the “Riese” complex took place in 1943–1945 but was left unfinished. Due to the lack of reliable sources, the exact intended function of the Riese complex is still unknown. The construction was carried out by prisoners, mostly Jews, from the main nearby concentration camps, KL Gross-Rosen and KL Auschwitz-Birkenau. Thanks to the discovery in the National Archives (NARA, USA) of a valuable series of German aerial photographs taken in February 1945, insight into the location of labour camps was obtained. These photographs, combined with LiDAR data from the Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography (Warsaw, Poland), allowed for the effective identification and field inspection of the camps’ remains. The location and delimitation of the selected labour camps were confirmed by an analysis of the 1945 aerial photograph combined with LiDAR data. These results were supported by field inspection as well as archival testimonies of witnesses. The field inspection of the construction remains indicated intentionally faulty construction works, which deliberately reduced the durability of the buildings and made them easy to demolish. The authors believe that it is urgent to continue the research and share the results with both the scientific community and the local community. The authors also want to emphasize that this less-known aspect of Holocaust history is gradually disappearing in social and institutional memory and is losing to the commercial mythologization of the Riese object.

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Forgotten Nazi Forced Labour Camps: Arbeitslager Riese (Lower Silesia, SE Poland) and the Use of Archival Aerial Photography and Contemporary LiDAR and Ground Truth Data to Identify and Delineate Camp Areas

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“…The underground systems and dimensions of individual adits differ significantly from each other. The Osówka complex (the 'heart' of the Riese complex) is the most advanced object in development [8]. Additionally, based on topographic maps from different periods and current airborne laser scanning data, spatial terrain models were created, thanks to which it was possible to determine, among others, detailed heights of entrances to individual complexes.…”

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Methodology of historical underground objects inventory surveys – contribution

Ochałek¹,

Jabłoński²,

Lipecki³

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Geodetic surveys are used in an inventory of a lot of industries, including documentary of historic objects. One of the hardest historic objects that need to be inventoried are underground ones. Observations of rock mass movements and their consequences are very crucial issues, especially in the aspect of protection of historical objects, therefore it is needed to implement special methods (especially non-invasive) and specialist protection. In Poland there are few underground UNESCO mines and a lot of other objects of historical importance, for example built by Nazi Germans. Authors describe the following measurement methods: tacheometric surveys, terrestrial laser scanning (TLS), leveling and as supporting methods: Airplane Laser Scanning (and its product: LIDAR), Global Positioning System and satellite images or geophysics methods. There were inventory surveys conducted in Project Riese (German form-Giant) in Góry Sowie, Central Sudetes (Poland), is the biggest mining and building project of Second World War Germany. Until today, due to the lack of documentation, the purpose of these construction is uncertain. There are only hypothesis rather than facts. Currently, six underground complexes-Osówka, Włodarz, Soboń, Rzeczka, Jugowice, Gontowa, Książ Castle are discovered in the area of Góry Sowie. There are some speculations that all complexes were supposed to be combined. Some of the researchers of Góry Sowie secrets claim that kilometers of tunnels are still able to be discovered in the future. During the inventory the combination of classical measurements technologies and modern surveys methods were used-terrestrial laser scanner, tacheometry and GNSS measurements. Authors used collected data to analyze geometrical relations between objects Complex underground and ground of Osówka. This allowed to verify location of objects in relations to each other which was not previously presented in research. Many sections and profiles of excavations, sketches and maps were made. METODY INWENTARYZACJI HISTORYCZNYCH OBIEKTÓW PODZIEMNYCH Słowa kluczowe: pomiary inwentaryzacyjne, podziemne obiekty historyczne, ALS, dziedzictwo kulturowe Streszczenie Procesy zachodzące w górotworze wymagają, aby każdy podziemny obiekt podlegał inwentaryzacji i kontroli. Na szczególną uwagę zasługują przede wszystkim historyczne i zabytkowe obiekty wydrążone pod ziemią, które powinny być objęte ochroną i działaniami umożliwiającymi ich rewitalizację, czy udostępnienie dla turystów. Ochrona tego typu zabytków wymusza kompleksowe podejście do problemów ich zabezpieczania i stosowanie różnego rodzaju metod inwentaryzacji, przede wszystkim ze względu na ich zazwyczaj i niepowtarzalny charakter. W Polsce znajduje się kilka podziemnych kopalni wpisanych na listę Światowego Dziedzictwa UNESCO oraz obiektów ważnych pod względem historycznym, np. wybudowanych przez Niemców w czasie drugiej wojny światowej. Proces inwentaryzacyjny takich obiektów opiera się na kilku ważnych aspektach, m.in.: rozpoznaniu warunków geotechnicznych i hydrogeologicznych ota...

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Integrating Underground Space into the Groundscape Resilience Concept

Omićević,

Zaninović,

Bojanić Obad Šćitaroci

2024

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Underground space has always been used as a resilient solution in addressing the need for safety in terms of climate conditions and defense purposes. This research seeks to recognize the potential of the underground space in the city as a significant urban resilience strategy, with the aim of revealing how contemporary underground architecture is integrated with the public spaces on the surface and how this groundscape integration contributes to the quality of the use of the public spaces to achieve urban resilience. Public spaces have a crucial role in the environmental, social, and sustainable context of the city and are considered urban domains for spatial urban intervention that contribute to urban resilience in its broader understanding. Based on the review of underground space research and the comparative analysis of selected contemporary design projects, the research explores the integration of underground space in correlation with its utilization model based on contemporary design projects. The research results in the systematization of underground utilization among underground infrastructure, underground living settlements, and urban development to offer insights into the enhancement of resilience planning through the contemporary multifunctional usage of underground space. The contribution of this research is reflected in the methodology of developing the criteria for a groundscape resilience concept, in terms of perceiving underground space as an integral urban layer, its multifunctional utilization, and in terms of achieving urban resilience.

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Virtual Underground City Osówka [abstract].

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Forgotten Nazi Forced Labour Camps: Arbeitslager Riese (Lower Silesia, SE Poland) and the Use of Archival Aerial Photography and Contemporary LiDAR and Ground Truth Data to Identify and Delineate Camp Areas

Forgotten Nazi Forced Labour Camps: Arbeitslager Riese (Lower Silesia, SE Poland) and the Use of Archival Aerial Photography and Contemporary LiDAR and Ground Truth Data to Identify and Delineate Camp Areas

Methodology of historical underground objects inventory surveys – contribution

Integrating Underground Space into the Groundscape Resilience Concept

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