Oberklausen

In Nuremberg, Albert Speer planned to build the Deutsches Stadion, a gigantic large stadium with seating for about 420,000 spectators and with a height of about 90 meters. Speer understood that the visibility from the top floor could cause problems for the spectators to be able to see the events down on the pitch. To investigate this, Speer, had in Oberklausen, about thirty kilometres east of Nuremberg, built a full-scale section on a slope, measuring 100 meters long, 70 meters high, 75 meters wide and with a capacity for 42,000 spectators, equivalent to one-tenth of the planned stadium. A lage tower next to section were also built. Hitler was extremely interested in the construction and visited the construction site together with Speer in March 1938. The Deutsches Stadium itself did not get any further than some groundwork before all work was interrupted due to the outbreak of war in 1939. All work and tests at the test facility in Oberklausen were also discontinued.