Donnerberg barracks
 Donnerberg barracks
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Main entrance and church tower |
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| country | Germany | ||
| local community | Eschweiler | ||
| Coordinates : | 50 ° 47 ' N , 6 ° 15' E | ||
| Opened | 1946 | ||
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 Parts of the Land Systems Engineering Training Center
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| 1947-1958 1958-1988 |
Camp Zeebrugge Camp Donnerberg |
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| Artillery Training Battalion 421, Missile School of the Army, (RakS (H)) |
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Location of the Donnerberg barracks in North Rhine-Westphalia |
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The Donnerberg barracks in Eschweiler is a Bundeswehr barracks in western North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located on the Birkengangstraße, which forms the city limits to the neighboring Stolberg, in the southern urban area south of the Waldschule settlement district , west of the Eschweiler city forest and north of the Donnerberg elevation , after which it has been named since 1958.
organization
The Thunder Mountain barracks forms, together with the three Aachener barracks Lützowplatz , Dr. Leo Loewenstein barracks - and Theodor Körner barracks , the training center technology Agricultural Systems (AusbZTLS). Department III of the Bundeswehr calibration center is also located there.
traffic
Master station is " Eschweiler Central Station " on the route Cologne - Düren - Aachen . The bus stops "Kaserne", "Stadtwald" and "Waldsiedlung" are served by line 48: Eschweiler Bushof - Eschweiler-West / Odilienstraße - Eschweiler Hbf - Pump - Kaserne - Birkengangstraße - Mühlener Bf as well as the Eschweiler school bus S Donnerbergkaserne . The next motorway junction is “Eschweiler-West” on the A4 via “Rue de Wattrelos” → “Odilienstraße” → “Röher Straße” → “Phönixstraße” → “Pump” → “Luisenstraße” → “Birkengangstraße”.
history
At the end of 1946, construction began on Camp Eschweiler in the Eschweiler city forest and on the Donnerberg. It is later renamed Camp Zeebrugge and, together with Camp Astrid in the Propsteier Forest, is the second Belgian barracks in the Eschweiler urban area. The first Belgian soldiers enter in the summer of 1947.
On December 20, 1956, the Belgian camp Zeebrugge was partially taken over by the German armed forces. The final and complete takeover with the establishment of the artillery school of the army and the artillery teaching battalion 421 takes place on May 21, 1958 under the name of Camp Donnerberg . On May 7, 1958, a bus route Eschweiler-Altes Rathaus - Stadtwald - Donnerberg camp was put into operation especially for the recruits . From the artillery school, the rocket school of the army was founded in 1964 and moved to Geilenkirchen in 1974 . Two training batteries equipped with Honest John and Sergeant missiles were stationed in the Donnerberg barracks for teaching purposes . At the beginning of 1972 the Technical Troop I School took over the camp, and since 1974 maintenance training has been carried out on electronic military equipment.
On June 2, 1978 the Bundeswehr's Donnerberg camp was renamed Donnerberg barracks . After the former barracks in Preyerstraße (formerly Kasernenstraße ), this is the second German barracks in Eschweiler. In March 1979 the wooden barracks were replaced by stone buildings. The Eschweiler Bundeswehr site administration closes on August 31, 1993 in favor of the Aachen site administration. The first women soldiers move in in March 2001.
Practice area on site
For the Training Center for Land Systems Technology (entsZTLS) there is an on-site training area for the Bundeswehr with an area of 224.9 hectares on a site near Brand (Brander Heide). A former site shooting range is now out of order. All soldiers of the training center practice the sharp shot in Geilenkirchen (NATO shooting range).
More barracks in Eschweiler
The Wehrmacht infantry barracks Eschweiler was located in Eschweiler-Mitte in today's Preyerstraße and the Belgian Camp Astrid barracks in Propsteier Wald .
Web links
- History of the technical school of the army and technical school of the army for technology in Eschweiler ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )