ROADS & BRIDGES CLOSED BECAUSE OF FLOOD DAMAGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004900460010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2007
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 16, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY East German'
SUBJECT 1 oac?s & 13rIcigos Closed B2c-1U1se
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHITHE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794. OF THE U. S. COMMAS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVEL-
ATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON
IS PROHIBITED BY LAW THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
DATE DISTR. 2 November 195+
NO. OF PAGES
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS. UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1-^ On-16- July 1954, the CDR State Secretariat for Motor -Traffic- and -A -
drew up a tabulation of roads and bridges which had to be closed
because of flood damage. In the meantime, the SED Central Committee
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
`INFORMATION REPORT
all flood damage on roads and bridges had to be
to October 1954. The tabulation drawn up by the State
Motor Traffic and Roads indicates that the following
roads and bridges had to be closed temporarily:-
a. Roa
Bezirk LeiRdg
F 2 ' Pegau - Zeitz
'
_F_l ydewitz
.,
F 2 Krostttz
LIC 249 T**-W4w- -- 1ff= _
LIO 252 Reuden
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LIO 222 Trebsen - Neichen
- Fodelwitz
LIO 204 Wiederau - Audigast
LIO 196 Blumenroda - Regis
LIO 373 Loebnitz - Tiefensee
Bezirk H e:
Berlin Nuernberg autobahn between the Coswig and Dessau-Sued exits.
Detour for light traffic via Dessau-Rosslau, for heavy and inter-
-zonal traffic via Schkeuditzer Kreuz as far as kilometer marker
177.6, from there on F 2 as far as branch point LI0 407, on LIO 407 via Eilenburg to Dueben, from Dueben on F 2 as far as Wittenberg,
from Wittenberg on F 184 as far as Coswig Autobahn entrance.
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LIO 115 Sollnitz '"W-_-. J4 f
- CLASSIFICATION SMRET -- -
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DISTRIBUTION
T-F
of Flood Don-age
 15. Bridge across Lungwitzbach in Nieder-Lungwitz - collapsed.2
. The abbreviations F and LI0 stand for Fernverkehrsstrasse
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LIO 321 Wallendorf - Burg Liebenau
LIO 345 Merseburg Fasanerie - Burg Liebenau..
F 184 Bernburg - Ilberstedt"
F 71 in Bernburg
F 6 Niederwarta
F 171 Schlottwitz
Bezirk Dres en:
:. __ LIO 7 -..o
LI0 16 .
LIO 16 -
F 73 Oberlungwitz between kilometer markers 2.8 and 3.7
F 94 Rodewisch - Reichenbahn
LI0 139 Daumnitz - Teich Wolf?ramsdorf
Bezirk Maadebura:
Entrance to and exit of.the Breitenhagen ferry.
2. Schlossbruecke in Dessau on LIO 112 - the wooden surface had to be
removed
Berlin - Nuernbe "~ ollapsed
1. The 'Canal Bridge , ,e. ulde River near
5. Bridge on LIO 111 at
gT
3. Bridge across the Elster River in the course of F 2 in Zeitz
4. Bridge across the Mulde River in Jessnitz along the route of LIO 116
8. Bridgeacross the Mulde River on LIO 186 near Lastau - imminent
danger of collapse
9. Bridge on LIO 300 near Mueschen in Bezirk Cottbus; piers undercut
and bridge lowered
10. Bridge across the Zwickauer.Mulde near Waldenburg on F 180 -
seriously damaged
11. Bridge across the Zwickauer Mulde in Jerisau Kreis Glauchau - collapsed
12. Bridge adoss the Freifluter near Bockau'(LIO 295-S-2) - collapsed
13. Bridge between Goeltzsoh and Muehlwand on LIO 327-S-1 - collapsed
14. Bridge in Chemnitz (Hartauer Strasse - Friedrich Strasse) - collapsed
6. Bridge across the Mulde River on LI0 222 near Neichen
70 Bridge on LI0 185 near Colditz
respectively. The places mentioned indicate the road sections which were
long-distance highway) and Landstrasse I. Ordnuug (First Class Road)
affected by the flock. It is ' j that the flood damages on roads
and Road Bridge Construction Program because of a critical shortage
believed that this use a delay of the 1954 Road
and bridges will no Ylate October 1954. It is also
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