St. Ottilien fire brigade
| St. Ottilien fire brigade | |
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 Fire station St. Ottilien |
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| Founding year: | 1907 |
| Employee: | 12 |
| Vehicles: | 2 |
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The St. Ottilien fire brigade is the volunteer fire brigade of the Abbey of the Benedictine Order of Sankt Ottilien . It was founded on January 20, 1907 for self-protection, but today it takes on a variety of tasks. Your team is recruited solely from the monks of the monastery, which made this fire brigade known nationwide.
organization
The fire brigade is under the command of Brother Anno Reuter. Your emergency services are trained once a month in an emergency and are on around 20 missions a year. Their equipment and training correspond to those of normal volunteer fire departments. Their area of operation includes the monastery itself, as well as a section of the A 96 where the fire brigade is alerted to traffic accidents. In addition, the Ottilians look after all 72 fire departments in the Landsberg district as fire brigade chaplains . The fire brigade is equipped with an 8/6 fire fighting group vehicle .
history
A gas explosion in the kitchen of the farm building on January 8, 1906, after a new barn had burned down in the women's convent, which was still located at the time, prompted the establishment of a fire fighting force for self-protection. At that time, a suction and pressure syringe, a ladder and a hose reel were procured, which were already being used to help out the fire departments in the area at that time. The fire brigade had its first large-scale operation on June 22, 1908, when a lightning strike in nearby Unterwindach led to a fire on an agricultural property and the Windach fire brigade was not up to the task alone. A year later, in October 1909, another major fire broke out, this time on the site of the monastery itself. As ten years later, in September 1919, a large part of the farm buildings, especially the food supplies, burned down.
After the Second World War , the fire brigade was renamed the “St. Ottilien Plant Fire Brigade”, but was never recognized as such by the responsible district office . In 1965 it received the status of a base fire brigade in the Landsberg am Lech district and was equipped with a 16/25 tank tender . In 1984 the "St. Ottilien plant fire brigade" was officially renamed "St. Ottilien volunteer fire brigade", making it a public, municipal fire brigade. In 2013 it was affiliated to the Eresing volunteer fire brigade as the “St. Ottilen fire fighting group”.
Web links
- Archabbey of St. Ottilien: The monastery fire brigade , accessed on July 2, 2019
Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 49 ″ N , 11 ° 2 ′ 44 ″ E