Rajlovac Camp
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The camp Rajlovac (Camp Capitaine Carreau) is located in Bosnia and Herzegovina and is located on the right of the Miljacka about 12 kilometers northwest of the city center of the capital Sarajevo on the territory of the municipality of Sarajevo-Novi Grad . In Rajlovac there was a military airfield of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1919 to 1942 . From 1949 to 1995, Yugoslavia's only production facility for jet engines was located in Rajlovac. From 1996 to 2007 Rajlovac was an important field camp of the SFOR protection force.
history
Air Force Base
The history of the camp goes back to 1904, when an Austro-Hungarian military site was already located here . At least from 1903 to 1909 the garrison of the 1st Division (battalion) of Dragoon Regiment No. 3 was here , which was then relocated to Groß-Enzersdorf . For 1914 Rajlovac is no longer on the garrison list. From 1919 to 1941, Rajlovac was an air base of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. After the bombing by the German and Italian air forces in 1941, the German armed forces occupied the air force base together with newly founded associations of the NDH . Rajlovac remained an air force base of the NDH government until it was liberated by the partisans in April 1945.
The history of the Technical Aviation Society in Rajlovac was connected with the establishment of the Air Force of the Yugoslav People's Army . At the end of the Second World War, the air force of the Yugoslav People's Liberation Army owned 301 aircraft. In 1945 the number rose by 36 fighter-bombers, 10 training aircraft, 24 training aircraft and 2 transport aircraft. Most of the aircraft were either captured or came from the RAF or from the USSR . Appropriate facilities were established to service these aircraft. During the final offensives of the Allies on October 30, 1944, a military aircraft yard was established in Pančevo , which was located in Rajlovac in 1949 and existed until 1995. From this the Vazduhoplovni zavod "Orao" emerged.
Engine factory
Until 1968, the jet engines of the Yugoslav People's Army aircraft were serviced in Rajlovac, including the engines of the American aircraft F-84 and T-33 and the Soviet MiG-21 . When the in-house production of the "VIPER MK.632" type engines for the Galeb G-4 aircraft began in 1968, the production of jet engines in the total volume took up over 49% of the total economic output in Rajlovac by 1991. Considerable investments have been made in the plant's infrastructure for this purpose.
The Vazduhoplovni zavod "Orao" had a license for jet engines from the Rolls-Royce company (RR Viper 633 Turbojet and Viper 632) and equipped the local trainer aircraft Super Galeb G4 and the first supersonic bomber Orao . In 1996 the Vazduhoplovni zavod "Orao" was relocated to Bijeljina .
SFOR field camp 1996-2006
Naming
The camp was named after the French captain Gilles Carreau . On June 20, 1995, he was transferred to the headquarters of the UN Protection Forces in the Sarajevo section of the UNPROFOR mission. At around 11 p.m. on July 22, 1995, he was leading a convoy that was supposed to provide the population of Sarajevo with food. He was fatally wounded by fragments from a mortar projectile fired into the street from Mount Igman .
use
In January 1997 the Bundeswehr moved into the camp. For this purpose, around 1,000 office, residential and sanitary containers were brought in by truck from Trogir , Primošten and Benkovac and set up. The area was cleared of booby traps , mines and old war equipment.
On the roll call square called Europaplatz there was a memorial with the names of the members of the Bundeswehr who died in Bosnia. The fallen were commemorated here on special occasions and on the day of national mourning. In the meantime, the memorial stone has been transferred to Germany and is now in the forest of remembrance in the Henning von Tresckow barracks in Geltow.
Until December 2004 the camp was the headquarters of the German SFOR contingents. The first permanent building of a German field hospital was erected here in the country of deployment, which in future can also be used as a purely civilian hospital in this form . When the building was completed in 2004, the cost of the 3,000 m² building was around 3.5 million euros .
The Rajlovac camp was handed over to the army of Bosnia-Herzegovina for use in 2007 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ World aerospace, a statistical handbook
- ↑ Online presence of the German Armed Forces on December 5, 2007 ( "Change of command and handover of the Rajlovac camp at EUFOR" )
Coordinates: 43 ° 52 ′ 15.6 ″ N , 18 ° 18 ′ 25.5 ″ E
