Aulenbach (Baumholder)

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Russian monument next to the former cemetery in the desert of Aulenbach
Location of the cemetery in the desert of Aulenbach

Aulenbach was a village in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate on the far western edge of today's Baumholder military training area , which was destroyed in the course of the establishment of the military training area in 1937 and its residents were forcibly relocated. Parts of the district were incorporated into the community of Reichenbach . In 1933, 280 people lived in Aulenbach.

The place was mentioned as early as 663 and belonged to the Veldenzian , later Palatinate-Zweibrückischen Amt Baumholder since the 13th century . During the French period from 1794 to 1814, Aulenbach was administered by Mairie Reichenbach in the canton of Baumholder . In the subsequent Coburg and later Prussian times after the end of French rule, Aulenbach belonged to the Baumholder mayor . Ecclesiastically, Aulenbach last belonged to the Protestant parish Baumholder.

The Clarashall heavy spar mine was located in the Aulenbach district, which was relocated to the neighboring community of Ruschberg when the military training area was set up.

During the Second World War, a labor camp was set up in the Aulenbach district from autumn 1941 for around 450 Soviet prisoners of war (Aulenbach camp), most of whom came from Stalag 356 (Senne). After the end of the war, the Eastern European forced laborers from the wider area were brought together centrally and barracked in the camp ( Displaced Persons ). To commemorate the people who died in the camp during captivity and in the post-war period, a high stone pyramid was erected as a memorial in the area after 1945 (" Russian Monument ").

Today the Baumholder military training area is housed in the Aulenbach camp.

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  1. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Decree of the OKH of February 26, 1942 )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / startext.net-build.de
  2. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Population of the communities in the district of Birkenfeld. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  3. ↑ The history of the Evangelical Church Community Baumholder ( Memento from May 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ): Some stations of the community in the 20th century and today
  4. ↑ Reinhard Otto: Wehrmacht, Gestapo and Soviet prisoners of war in the Soviet-German Reich territory 1941/42 (=  series of the quarterly books for contemporary history . Volume 77 ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-64577-3 , p. 177 .
  5. ↑ Baumholder military training area. (PDF; 447 kB) Armed Forces Base, October 2016, accessed on October 5, 2017 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 18 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 2.9 ″  E