Blücher barracks (Hessisch Lichtenau)

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GermanyFlag of Germany (state) .svg Blücher barracks
country Germany
status abandoned since 2006
local community Hessian Lichtenau
Coordinates : 51 ° 12 '  N , 9 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 11 '37 "  N , 9 ° 44' 21"  E
Opened 1962
owner Private
Formerly stationed units

Tank Grenadier Battalion 51 Tank Battalion 154
Tank Battalion 53
Tank Battalion 54 Tank
Reconnaissance Battalion 2 Tank Artillery Battalion
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Telecommunications Company 947 Tank
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Blücher barracks (Hesse)
Blücher barracks

Location of the Blücher barracks in Hesse

The Blücher barracks in the Hessian city of Hessisch Lichtenau in the Werra-Meißner district was a 27 hectare site of the Bundeswehr .

history

The area later used for the construction of the Blücher barracks was sold in 1935 by the city of Hessisch Lichtenau for the establishment of an "operational airport" for the Air Force . In the same year, work began on the alternate airfield for Rothwesten Air Base near Kassel. He was under the airport area command Fritzlar (Koflug) 4 / XII. The 14th pilot training regiment , the pilot school A / B 42 and the II./ Kampfgeschwader 4 were temporarily stationed.

The US Air Force used the airfield as Airfield R-13 from April 1945 until July 22, 1945 after it was captured.

With the establishment of the Bundeswehr , the decision was made to build barracks in Hessisch Lichtenau on the site previously used as an airfield. The building preparations to secure the water supply and the access to the barracks began in 1959. On September 29, 1960, the groundbreaking ceremony for the buildings took place and on September 8, 1961, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated. The keys were handed over in the summer of 1962. A total of 35 million DM had been built. The first soldiers moved in on November 8, 1962.

The buildings in the barracks were expanded and renewed several times, including a multi-purpose hall in 1966, a team home in 1976 and a partial social home for officers and NCOs in 1986.

The name of the barracks after the Prussian Field Marshal GL v. Blücher did not take place until 1967.

In the course of the restructuring of the Bundeswehr ( transformation ), the Blücher barracks was closed in 2006. On July 13, 2006, the official farewell event took place as part of a large tattoo. The last roll call was on November 30, 2006 with the decommissioning of the Panzerartilleriebataillon 2. On December 20, 2006 the barracks gates were finally closed.

The barracks were not only the actual property of the training area Hessisch Lichtenau directly behind the barracks, and the location shooting Hessisch Lichtenau.

Associations and units

  • Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion 2, set up in Fritzlar from June 1, 1958 from parts of Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion 5 and Panzer Reconnaissance Company 2, stationed in the newly built barracks in Hessisch Lichtenau from November 8, 1962, dissolution effective September 30, 1996
  • Panzerbataillon 154, with advance personnel (training companies 16/2 and 16 / III as well as the Reserve Sergeant Candidate Company 541) in the barracks in Hessisch Lichtenau since November 12, 1962, it was in the Blücher barracks from October 16, 1967 to April 1, 1969 set up by surrendering one company each from tank battalions 54, 143, 204; Renamed to Panzerbataillon 54 on October 1, 1981
  • Telecommunication company 947, set up on October 1, 1971 in the Blücher barracks, disbanded on June 30, 1993 (initially Stöberhai and Hoher Meißner telecommunication stations, from January 18, 1977 telecommunication reconnaissance tower Hoher Meißner)
  • Panzerbataillon 53, set up on April 1, 1976 to test the new "Army Structure 4", disbanded on September 30, 1980
  • 4./Panzergrenadierbataillon 51 (mixed), October 1, 1980 to September 30, 1992
  • Panzerbataillon 54, October 1, 1981 to September 30, 1992
  • Panzerartilleriebataillon 2, set up on October 1, 1996 in the Blücher barracks from the armored reconnaissance battalion 2, the armored artillery battalions 65 and 395; the unit was dissolved on December 31, 2006
  • Panzerpionierkompanie 50, emerged from the 4th / Pioneer Battalion 5 formed on November 6, 1956 in Dillingen, which was then relocated to Hannoversch Münden in the same month and renamed 4th / Pioneer Battalion 2, in January 1959 finally formation of the Panzer Pionier Company 50 from the 4th ./Pionierbataillon 2 in Hannoversch Münden, stationed in Fritzlar between October 1, 1981 and May 31, 1994, relocated to the Blücher barracks from June 1, 1994, on September 9, 1996 the unit of Panzer Pioneer Company 140 (Stadtallendorf) subordinated, deactivated and their large equipment stored in Stadtallendorf for a long time, the liquidation took place with effect from September 30, 2002 in connection with the decommissioning of Panzerpionierkompanie 140
  • Panzer Reconnaissance Company 50, formed from the 4th / Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion 2 on April 1, 1993, from April 1, 1996 subordinated to the 5 Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, from May 1, 1996 only equipment unit and disbanded with the 5 Armored Grenadier Brigade on July 1, 1996
  • Hessisch Lichtenau medical center, established in 1998, as of December 31, 2006
  • Motor vehicle training center Hessisch Lichtenau, formed in July 1994 from the driving school groups Göttingen, Hessisch Lichtenau, Homberg / Efze, Sontra and Rotenburg / Fulda, dissolved on March 31, 2005

Civil use

After the barracks were closed, a feasibility study for marketing the 33 hectare area was commissioned in 2006. The city of Hessisch Lichtenau implemented recommendations from this study in a development plan. Since 2010, the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks has also taken over the sale of individual parcels. In 2013, all the properties were sold. On the site u. a. a large logistics company in the automotive industry, a manufacturer of cosmetic products, a telecommunications company, a solar park and an air sports club.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Branch Association Hessisch Lichtenau (ed.): The Bundeswehr in Hessisch Lichtenau. 50 years of the Blücher barracks. 1962 - 2012, Hessisch Lichtenau 2012, p. 3
  2. ^ Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Branch Association Hessisch Lichtenau (ed.): The Bundeswehr in Hessisch Lichtenau. 50 years of the Blücher barracks. 1962 - 2012, Hessisch Lichtenau 2012, p. 3
  3. ^ Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Branch Association Hessisch Lichtenau (ed.): The Bundeswehr in Hessisch Lichtenau. 50 years of the Blücher barracks. 1962 - 2012, Hessisch Lichtenau 2012, pp. 4–7, 13
  4. ^ Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Branch Association Hessisch Lichtenau (ed.): The Bundeswehr in Hessisch Lichtenau. 50 years of the Blücher barracks. 1962 - 2012, Hessisch Lichtenau 2012, pp. 21–26
  5. ^ Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Branch Association Hessisch Lichtenau (ed.): The Bundeswehr in Hessisch Lichtenau. 50 years of the Blücher barracks. 1962 - 2012, Hessisch Lichtenau 2012, p. 7
  6. ^ Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Branch Association Hessisch Lichtenau (ed.): The Bundeswehr in Hessisch Lichtenau. 50 years of the Blücher barracks. 1962 - 2012, Hessisch Lichtenau 2012, p. 31 f., 87 f.
  7. ^ Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Branch Association Hessisch Lichtenau (ed.): The Bundeswehr in Hessisch Lichtenau. 50 years of the Blücher barracks. 1962 - 2012, Hessisch Lichtenau 2012, p. 19
  8. ↑ Chronicle of the Panzerbataillon 154 part 1 at Freundeskreis Officers der Panzertruppe e. V.
  9. ^ Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Branch Association Hessisch Lichtenau (ed.): The Bundeswehr in Hessisch Lichtenau. 50 years of the Blücher barracks. 1962 - 2012, Hessisch Lichtenau 2012, pp. 19, 22 and 25
  10. ↑ Militarized Landscape Kurhessen, Museum project North Hessian Military Museum about the Cold War era in the region
  11. ^ Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Branch Association Hessisch Lichtenau (ed.): The Bundeswehr in Hessisch Lichtenau. 50 years of the Blücher barracks. 1962 - 2012, Hessisch Lichtenau 2012, pp. 22, 24 and 29
  12. ^ Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Branch Association Hessisch Lichtenau (ed.): The Bundeswehr in Hessisch Lichtenau. 50 years of the Blücher barracks. 1962 - 2012, Hessisch Lichtenau 2012, p. 24f.
  13. ↑ Chronicle of the Panzerbataillon 53 at Freundeskreis Officers der Panzertruppe e. V. with different information on the listing and dissolution
  14. ^ Chronicle of the Panzergrenadierbataillon 51/52 at the traditional association of former soldiers Panzergrenadierbataillon 51/52 eV
  15. ^ Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Branch Association Hessisch Lichtenau (ed.): The Bundeswehr in Hessisch Lichtenau. 50 years of the Blücher barracks. 1962 - 2012, Hessisch Lichtenau 2012, p. 29
  16. ↑ Chronicle of the Panzerbataillon 154 part 1 at Freundeskreis Officers der Panzertruppe e. V.
  17. ↑ Chronicle of the Panzerbataillon 54 Part 2 at Freundeskreis Officers der Panzertruppe e. V.
  18. ^ Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Branch Association Hessisch Lichtenau (ed.): The Bundeswehr in Hessisch Lichtenau. 50 years of the Blücher barracks. 1962 - 2012, Hessisch Lichtenau 2012, p. 29
  19. ^ Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Branch Association Hessisch Lichtenau (ed.): The Bundeswehr in Hessisch Lichtenau. 50 years of the Blücher barracks. 1962 - 2012, Hessisch Lichtenau 2012, pp. 30 and 31
  20. ↑ Uwe Walter: Of wolves, leopards and other predators. The history of the army of the Federal Armed Forces in Hesse and the neighboring federal states, Part 1, Cölbe-Schönstadt 2010, pp. 104-106
  21. ^ Relocation of Panzerpionierkompanie 50 to Hessisch-Lichtenau ("Army Structure 5"), June 1, 1994. Contemporary history in Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  22. ^ Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Branch Association Hessisch Lichtenau (ed.): The Bundeswehr in Hessisch Lichtenau. 50 years of the Blücher barracks. 1962 - 2012, Hessisch Lichtenau 2012, p. 33
  23. ^ Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Branch Association Hessisch Lichtenau (ed.): The Bundeswehr in Hessisch Lichtenau. 50 years of the Blücher barracks. 1962 - 2012, Hessisch Lichtenau 2012, p. 24
  24. ↑ List of Panzer Reconnaissance Company 50 in Hessisch-Lichtenau, April 1, 1993. Contemporary history in Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  25. ^ Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Branch Association Hessisch Lichtenau (ed.): The Bundeswehr in Hessisch Lichtenau. 50 years of the Blücher barracks. 1962 - 2012, Hessisch Lichtenau 2012, p. 34
  26. ^ Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Branch Association Hessisch Lichtenau (ed.): The Bundeswehr in Hessisch Lichtenau. 50 years of the Blücher barracks. 1962 - 2012, Hessisch Lichtenau 2012, p. 35
  27. ^ Article "Blücher barracks in Hessisch Lichtenau: 33 hectares are sold", in: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine from May 22, 2013
  28. ^ Article "Bundeswehr: Troops were part of the city for 44 years", in: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine from November 12, 2015

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