Meißen volunteer fire brigade

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Meißen volunteer fire brigade
Meissen coat of arms Office of the city of Meissen
Volunteer firefighter
Founding year: 1840
Active members: 46 (as of 2020)
Vehicles: 21st
Youth fire brigade
Members: 25th
Vehicles: 1
Children's fire brigade
Founding year: 2016
Members: 10
www.feuerwehr-meissen.de
Vehicles of the Meissen fire brigade 2006

The Meißen volunteer fire brigade is the oldest voluntary fire brigade in Germany officially founded as a volunteer fire brigade (FF) according to today's understanding. It consists of an active deployment department with 46 emergency services, a youth fire brigade , a children's fire brigade and the age and honorary department . The Meißen fire brigade, which was built in 1973 and expanded and converted in 2003, is located in the center of Meißen at Grossenhainer Strasse 49.

History and equipment

In contrast to the Fire Compagnie Alzey , which was first mentioned in writing in 1799 , the Meißen volunteer fire brigade is the oldest voluntary fire brigade in Germany to be founded as a volunteer fire brigade according to today's understanding. On October 19, 1840, the city council of Meissen began recruiting volunteers for a fire fighting and rescue corps to be formed . Eight days later on November 27, 1840, 132 volunteers had registered and on July 17, 1841 their engagement took place in the town hall of Meißen. A plaque attached to the former home of the first fire chief commemorates the founding of the FF Meissen.

The uniforms of the FF Meissen initially consisted of gray linen skirts with black buttons. The department heads wore gray, black, and red collars on their uniforms. The syringe team wore hats, which the foremen also had a white border around them. The rescue teams wore spiked helmets , the captain, deputy and adjutant also wore bushes of horsehair on their helmets. In 1864, with members of a local gymnastics club, a gymnast fire brigade was founded as an aid team without equipment and incorporated into the FF Meißen.

Historical structure 1841

  • 1 captain
  • 1 deputy
  • 1 adjutant
  • 1 platoon leader of the rescue teams
  • 2 spray masters
  • 6 hose masters (pipe operators)
  • 6 foremen (senior fire fighters)
  • 118 firefighters

Vehicle fleet

Motor vehicles

pendant

  • Lighting trailer
  • CO 2 trailer
  • Powder trailer
  • Transport trailer
  • mobile monitor on trailer
  • Logistic trailer water hazards

Boats

  • Motor inflatable boat
  • Flood boat

operation area

The approximately 300 to 350 missions of the Fire Brigade Meißen each year are dispatched by the integrated control center of the Dresden professional fire brigade . A siren for alerting is available, but the alerting is usually carried out without a siren via radio signaling receiver . The area of ​​operation essentially comprises the city of Meißen and the surrounding area as well as various federal and country roads.

Youth fire brigade

The youth fire brigade of the city of Meissen currently consists of 25 members. The aim is to prepare the members for a takeover in the active operations department.

Children's fire brigade

The children's fire brigade Bambini fire brigade Meißen was founded on July 17, 2016 as part of the 175th anniversary of the Meißen volunteer fire brigade and currently has 10 members between four and eight years of age.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to VFDB -Merkblatt 11/01, existence and age determination of a fire brigade [1]
  2. ↑ Florian 14: eighth alarm !: the book of the fire brigade p. 372, author: Hans Georg Prager, Sutton-Verlag 2011
  3. ↑ Feuerlandsturm - Fire Brigade - Fire Brigade Association for the Promotion of German Fire Protection eV
  4. ↑ The fire extinguishing system in all its parts: according to its historical development from the earliest times to the present, p. 58, author / ed .: Magirus, Conrad Dietrich ; Magirus, Conrad Dietrich, place of publication: Ulm | Year of publication: 1877
  5. ↑ Feuerwehr-Magazin 7/1991 p. 38 ff
  6. ↑ Voluntary fire brigades as a sustainable model of local self-government on zeitgeschichte-online.de
  7. ↑ according to VFDB -Merkblatt 11/01, existence and age determination of a fire brigade [2]

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