Raxwerke

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"Serbenhalle" (i.e. Serbian hall)

For a list of Allied attacks on the area, see Wiener Neustadt WWII bombings.

Raxwerke or Rax-Werke was a facility of the Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik at Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria. During World War II, the company also produced lamps for Panzer tanks and anti-aircraft guns.[1] Two Raxwerke plants employed several thousand forced laborers from the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp^{[citation needed]} (on June 20, 1943, Mauthausen delivered ~500 prisoners to the Rax-Werke).^[1]^:189

V-2 production: Part of the Eastern Works (V-2 facilities in the Vienna-Freidrichshafen area),^[2] the 30 meter-high Serbs hall at the Raxwerke was selected for V-2 manufacturing.[2] A few V-2 center sections had been assembled by the Raxwerke when on November 2, 1943, the US Fifteenth Air Force targeted the nearby Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke (WNF) plant and hit the Raxwerke.^[3] Rax test equipment was subsequently moved to the site of the Redl-Zipf brewery in central Austria (code name Schlier) where V-2 test stands were built.^[1]^[specify]

Wasserfall testing: Werner Dahm was sent from Peenemünde to the Raxwerke for the construction of an engine test stand for the Wasserfall Remote-Controlled A-A Rocket (construction was never completed).[3]^{[verification needed]}

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Neufeld, Michael J (1995). The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. New York: The Free Press. p. 207.
^ Irving, David (1964). The Mare's Nest. London: William Kimber and Co. pp. 136,144.
^ Ordway, Frederick I, III; Sharpe, Mitchell R (1979). The Rocket Team. Apogee Books Space Series 36. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. pp. 74,171.

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