Peenemünde – history and rocket manufacturing

The village of Peenemünde is situated at the northern tip of Usedom Island (also known as the Peenemünde Hook), eastern Germany. Peenemünde was an insignificant fishing village until 1936, when the Army Research Centre was founded there. 

Given that Peenemünde was used by the German Reich as a place to develop weapons that were designed to change the course of the war, it is important to focus on this topic and the region. 

Retribution Weapon 2 was the world’s first functioning rocket powered by a liquid-propellant engine. Initially, the V-2 was only manufactured in Peenemünde, but following a bombing attack on the village in the night of 17-18th August 1943, production was relocated to a mountain tunnel in the Harz Mountains.