FKE Offices

Description
The FKE offices are located near Berlin and house the E.S.E facility.

History
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union completed the construction of the secret research facility FKE-I (“Forschungskomplex-Extraterrestrik I”) in the “Schwenower Forst”, Storkow/Schwenow/Limsdorf between the “Großer Wotzensee” and “Großer Milasee" next to the road L74, on 15 November 1979 (google maps 52.158699, 13.959516). There was a highly secret cooperation with the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, especially with the Adlershof Institute for Cosmos Research (IKF) and the other locations near Potsdam. The Ministry of State Security (Mfs) also had a site right next to the research facility. In 1988, a first version of the ESE (“Extraterrestrischer Sender und Empfänger”) was completed, made possible by massive government financial investment dating back to 1982. The building is a reinforced concrete structure typical of the 1970s. Next to two flat office blocks, a tower-like structure juts into the sky, in which the transmitter itself is located, the heart of all research at the FKE-I. In addition to open-plan offices, the FKE-I research facility offers laboratories, test facilities, warehouses, canteens, recreational facilities and, of course, the ESE facility itself.