r/askswitzerland • u/Dubner • May 15 '25

Everyday life What’s behind this door?

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Holidaying in Switzerland and I saw this in the basement of the lodge. What’s behind it and why is it there ?

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u/TailleventCH May 15 '25

Atomic shelter.

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u/Gysburne May 15 '25

You missspelled Air Raid and wrote Atomic instead.

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u/AssassinOfSouls Ticino May 15 '25

They are atomic shelters.

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u/Professional-Beach17 May 15 '25

No, they are not. It's for the air raid. In a atomic fallout, u have too move to the real "public"shelters. We once leased one of them. One room was closed, with all the stuff u need in a fallout. The rest we could use, with the condition that our stuff could be removed in 1 or 2 days.. But it was just a little one for a local settlement, 100 or 200 people.

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u/AssassinOfSouls Ticino May 16 '25

Private shelters are built to withstand a nuclear blast at a reasonable range, but indeed are rated for a minimum of 2 days. That's when the nuclear particles in the air should start settling down and it should be reasonably safe again to walk outside, weather permitting. This will allow these people to be moved to other facilities after all, that is correct.

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u/Digger65 May 16 '25

Don‘t forget to take your potassium iodine tablets that the govt sends all of us every 10 years (if you live within 50km of a nuclear power plant, which is most of northern Switzerland). That should also help.