page_title: Großer Heuberg
section_title: Rocket
hierarchical_section_title: Großer Heuberg / Rocket
caption_attribution_description: English: Bachem Ba 349 „Natter“ M23, replica at the „Militärgeschichtliche Sammlung“ at Lager Heuberg in Stetten am kalten Markt; Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The pilot Lothar Sieber gets final instructions from the engineer Erich Bachem. Deutsch: Bachem Ba 349 „Natter“ M23, Nachbau in der „Militärgeschichtlichen Sammlung“ im Lager Heuberg in Stetten am kalten Markt; Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland. Der Pilot Lothar Sieber erhält letzte Instruktionen vom Konstrukteur Erich Bachem.
context_page_description: Großer Heuberg or Grosser Heuberg, often simply called Heuberg, is the name of a sparsely populated plateau in the southwestern Swabian Jura with mountains of about 1,000 metres above sea level or even higher. The word beginning Heu is German for hay, which was the major income source for the inhabitants in recent times and is until today formative for the landscape of the Heuberg. The word ending berg means mountain.
context_section_description: in 1945 the rocket Bachem Ba 349 startet on the Heuberg Ochsenkopf in Straßberg-Kaiseringen.
  On March 1, 1945,  Lothar Sieber died near Nusplingen. The first manned rocket flight in history. In 2010 Oliver Gortat and Philip Schneider made a documentary film about the Bachem Ba 349.
caption: Trailing scene, Sieber discusses with Erich Bachem the final launch preparations, at the Militärgeschichtliche Sammlung Stetten am kalten Markt
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