Treasure of Štěchovice

And here comes what we have informed you about earlier. American investors in cooperation with Helmut Gaensel are preparing to excavate the Štěchovice treasure! And it wouldn‘t be the Americans if they didn‘t want to make good of their activities. A contract has been signed for the shooting of a six-part series, which will bring the history of the Štěchovice treasure closer and the last episode will follow the effort of excavating it. It will be a fictional documentary. It will be covered by MGM Television from the Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer group and the History Channel team, which has great experience with similar events, will take care of the filming itself. The first flap, which was supposed to flap last year, was postponed due to Covid 19 and hopefully we will see it in 2021. 

The Amber Chamber
Do you want to know where the Amber Chamber is? Was it destroyed by the end of the World War II? Not at all! The real story of the Amber Chamber will be revealed in the new Helmut Gaensel´s book of the identical name. The famous hunter of the Štěchovice treasure summarizes in his publication the existing knowledge, about which you can read on this website in the Amber Chamber bookmark as well. The main line in the exciting story is the diary evidence of a man who carried the Amber Chamber to the deposition in the safe place. The shelter is not far away from the czech borders and the amber treasure is still there. Do you want to find out more information? Start reading Helmut Gansel´s Amber Chamber book. It is one the works you read in one breath.

To think that Helmut Gaensel has devoted his whole life to search for the Štěchovice treasure would be wrong. He is also active in the company „Gaensel Energy Group“. It is a publicly traded international holding company that has been operating on the market since 2002. As the name of the company suggests, it´s devoted to energetics – for example the development and production of wind turbines. But the content of the holding is much wider - as an example we can mention one of his companies „Officina del la Cialda“, which produce and supply capsules for coffee machines. For example, in 2021 there were about 180 customers in Italy.

For more information: https://gegrgroup.com/

Helmut Gaensel entered into a co-production contract with Europe DMT Production Company on the conditions of production and exploitation of a film with work title Pražská spojka (Prague Connection). The aim is to make a feature film about the life fate of Helmut Gaensel.

Wallenstein stretches to Prague
We have already mentioned the idea that deconstructs the role of Emil Klein as the main organizer of Štěchovice treasure store. It is based primarily on the fact that in May 1945 Klein was entrusted with a very dangerous task, during which he could get into captivity or even be killed. And a person that would entrust him with the store of important Third Reich secrets would not risk that. Therefore, let us briefly remind the role of Colonel Emil Klein in the very finals of the war. SS-Standartenführer Emil Klein, Commander of SS-Pionier-Schule 4 Hradischko commanded one of two groups of higher unit SS-Kampfverband Wallenstein. It was named after the Duke of Friedland Albrecht from Valdštejn (Albrecht von Wallenstein in German).
It was a comprehensive designation for the SS troops, which from 5th May, 1945 progressed against Prague uprising of the South from drill field SS-Truppenübungsplatz Beneschau in Neveklovsko. The action of the South was led by two battle groups:
„Western“ from Hradištko across Zbraslav to Smíchov called SS-Kampfgruppe Moldauthal, which was now commanded by Emil Klein. The second „Eastern“ group was engaged against Krč and Pankrác. Together with other units they should mass on the outskirts of Prague till 6th May, 1945 morning and at dawning launch concentrated attack from several directions supported by the Air Force and encounter attacks by German forces in Prague. SS Kampfgruppe Wallenstein advanced from the South in two streams along both banks of the Vltava River, troops on the left bank were commanded by von Klein. And just his soldiers are assigned to massacres of civilians e.g. in Zbraslav, Lahovice or Barrandov.

Underground gallery was finally located!
The fact that the search for Štechovice treasure needs a new impetus was clear for some time. The treasure ( as it might be called ) has been lying under the ground for nearly 65 years and practically the same time has been spent looking for it. The result of intensive work by the seekers as for example: The army, Ministry of interior affairs, Omnipol, Mr. Helmut Gaensel, Mr. Pepa Mužík, Mr. Ondřej Vetchý and tens of other occasional diggers, was always the same: Nobody found anything. The reports about the search for the treasure virtually stopped being in the headlines of newspapers and disappeared from television broadcasting and the countryside around Hradištko ( The site where the search is taking place ) is bleak again. Then, something unusual happened in Spring.

Mr. Helmut Gaensel’s phone rang: “ Hi, Helmut, Ed Fagan speaking. “
At that time it looked as if the most important impulse in the history of the search for the treasure took place. What has really happened?

American- for many people a controversial lawyer – Mr. Edward Fagan who has successfully defended the victims of the holocaust and has won a significant financial compensation. Now he was on line. The Swiss banks paid out 1.25 billion dollars in out of court settlements but Mr. Fagan looked further. He found out that the key to these accounts in many cases lies somewhere near Prague. His search continued in Germany and eventually led him to Štěchovice treasure and to Helmut Gaensel.

The result: Ed Fagan visited Hradištko and together with the sponsor of the whole project, American lawyer James Lowy approached Helmut Gaensel in order to help them to get into the underground. Shortly after that began another cycle of search. The party concentrated on piece of land on the outskirts of the municipality of Hradištko where Helmut Gaensel had already searched before but with new findings from Germany they located more precise place where to search.

The firm G Impuls used a method of resistance tomography and with a device known as ARS-200E measured the distance of approximately 103 meters. The electrodes were placed one meter apart and were set to search into the depth of 10 meters under ground.

Report from G Impuls: It is very obvious that we have found only one significant abnormality. At the distance of 28 – 34 meters we have located a place of high- resistance which reached the value of up to 10.000 ohms and the depth is approximately 4 meters. This value is very untypical when we take into consideration the composition and formation of the bedrock at this locality.
Obviously there is an artificial object .We recommend drilling at the distance of 31 meters and to perform geophysical survey.

There is no doubt that after 65 years of search Helmut Gaensel and his people have found an underground tunnel and located an exact place.

What is to follow?
Concurrently there are several things to solve:
Entry to the grounds and possibility of drilling,
To deal with the authorities about the conditions of ownership in case of finding the treasure,
Date of drilling and the use of mini-camera,
Because of a large extent of work Helmut Gaensel will work with Josef Mužík, his former rival,
According to Helmut Gaensel the drilling is a question of weeks and if successful there will start preparations for an extensive survey of the area.

Edward Fagan, Helmut Gensel, James Lowy at work.

Another step in Štěchovice
The hook in Štěchovice is slowly being hauled in. Through the tremendous efforts of Helmut Gaensel photos from WWII reconnaissance flight over suspected area where lies the Amber Chamber have been discovered. True, the photos are not of the highest quality, but what is most important is that they are in the hands of Helmut Gaensl. Moreover, he holds the photo of the sought-after resting place of the Amber Chamber. Of course these photos, understandably, have not been made public. A pair of photos reveal the entrance to an underground area, which according to comparisons of the area, reveals how in the past if had been possible to enter the underground area with vehicles including transport trucks. The areal photos of the second hole show that there was an entrance to an underground ventilation system which had been concealed before. With regards to this, the photo clearly shows the outline that Gaensel has long suspected to be the approximate position where the digging shall begin in order to discover what lays below. One question remains. When will the digging begin.