Raxwerke or Rax-Werke was a facility of the Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik

Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik

The Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik was the largest locomotive and engineering factory in the Austro-Hungarian Empire...

 at Wiener Neustadt

Wiener Neustadt

-Main sights:* The Late-Romanesque Dom, consecrated in 1279 and cathedral from 1469 to 1785. The choir and transept, in Gothic style, are from the 14th century. In the late 15th century 12 statues of the Apostles were added in the apse, while the bust of Cardinal Melchior Klesl is attributed to...

 in Lower Austria

Lower Austria

Lower Austria is the northeasternmost state of the nine states in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria since 1986 is Sankt Pölten, the most recently designated capital town in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria had formerly been Vienna, even though Vienna is not officially part of Lower Austria...

. During World War II, the company also produced lamps for Panzer

Panzer

A Panzer is a German language word that, when used as a noun, means "tank". When it is used as an adjective, it means either tank or "armoured" .- Etymology :...

 tanks and anti-aircraft guns.http://www.geheimprojekte.at/t_raxwerk.html Two Raxwerke plants employed several thousand forced laborers from the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp

Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp

Mauthausen Concentration Camp grew to become a large group of Nazi concentration camps that was built around the villages of Mauthausen and Gusen in Upper Austria, roughly east of the city of Linz.Initially a single camp at Mauthausen, it expanded over time and by the summer of 1940, the...

(on June 20, 1943, Mauthausen delivered ~500 prisoners to the Rax-Werke).

V-2 production: Part of the Eastern Works (V-2 facilities in the Vienna-Freidrichshafen area), the 30 meter-high Serbs hall at the Raxwerke was selected for V-2 manufacturing.http://www.geheimprojekte.at/t_raxwerk.html A few V-2 center sections had been assembled by the Raxwerke when on November 2, 1943, the US Fifteenth Air Force

Fifteenth Air Force

The Fifteenth Expeditionary Mobility Task Force is one of two EMTFs assigned to the United States Air Force Air Mobility Command . It is headquartered at Travis Air Force Base, California....

 targeted the nearby Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke (WNF) plant and hit the Raxwerke. Rax test equipment was subsequently moved to the site of the Redl-Zipf

Redl-Zipf

The Redl-Zipf V-2 rocket facility in central Austria between Vöcklabruck and Vöcklamarkt was for V-2 rocket motor testing after Raxwerke test equipment had been moved from Friedrichshafen...

 brewery in central Austria (code name

Code name

A code name or cryptonym is a word or name used clandestinely to refer to another name or word. Code names are often used for military purposes, or in espionage...

 Schlier

Schlier

Schlier is a town in the district of Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg in Germany....

) where V-2 test stands were built.

Wasserfall

Wasserfall

The Wasserfall Ferngelenkte Flakrakete , was a World War II guided surface-to-air missile developed at Peenemünde, Germany.-Technical characteristics:...

 testing: Werner Dahm

Werner Dahm

Werner Karl Dahm was an early spaceflight scientist of the Peenemünde Future Projects Office who emigrated to the US under Operation Paperclip and was the Marshall Space Flight Center Chief Aerodynamicist.-Life:Werner Karl Dahm was born on Feb...

 was sent from Peenemünde

Peenemünde

The Peenemünde Army Research Center was founded in 1937 as one of five military proving grounds under the Army Weapons Office ....

to the Raxwerke for the construction of an engine test stand for the Wasserfall Remote-Controlled A-A Rocket (construction was never completed).http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/dsh/peenintro.html