Frankenwald barracks
 Frankenwald barracks
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| country | Germany | ||
| today | Civil used | ||
| local community | Naila | ||
| Coordinates : | 50 ° 19 ′ N , 11 ° 42 ′ E | ||
| Opened | 1966 | ||
| owner | Private | ||
| Workforce | 400 (1992) | ||
| Formerly stationed units | |||
| Telecommunications Regiment 32 |
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Location of the Frankenwald barracks in Bavaria |
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The Frankenwald barracks is a former barracks of the air force of the German armed forces in Naila . Until 1992 it was an important base for the air surveillance of the Bundeswehr in the former zone border area .
history
In a tense phase of the Cold War in 1961 in Naila a radar unit of the US Air Force stationed temporarily. The 16th Company of the 32nd Telecommunications Regiment of the Air Force then moved into the Frankenwald barracks, which was completed in 1966. A telecommunications train for radio relay was incorporated. The US units had previously left the site and had to court the former Kingsley Barracks (later General Hüttner army barracks , today Upper Franconia barracks ) drawn where later the for the radar station at the nearby Döbraberg competent 7th Company of the Air Force (later 8th Company) was stationed. A training unit was added later, in which low-flying reporting soldiers were trained. The average manpower was around 400 soldiers. At the end of the 1980s, the number of troops was reduced, civilian personnel were hired and after 1990 the training unit was outsourced to Roth and the Margrave barracks in Bayreuth . In the course of German reunification , the location with all its branch offices was dissolved in September 1992. The city of Naila bought the site from the Federal Property Office . Since then, the area has been used for civilian purposes.
Task
The task of the telecommunications regiment in Naila was air space observation (LRB), initially by means of monitoring with the human senses and therefore also called eye-to-ear monitoring. For this purpose, soldiers were stationed in shift work in places with good visibility, who were only equipped with binoculars and radio equipment.
It was not until the early 1970s that the LRB units were equipped with mobile radar stations and the low-level aircraft reporting service ( TMD ) was founded. A low- flying reporting and control center (TMLZ) was stationed in the barracks and was responsible for the central evaluation of the data obtained by the mobile radar stations. These data were forwarded to the CRC Lauda (a bunkered air force combat command system ). The mobile radar stations were set up in permanent deployment stations (DEST). The air surveillance system had become obsolete by the end of the Cold War .
After the opening of the border in 1989 until reunification, the barracks were used as a meeting point for NVA units and as a stopover for supplies to the GDR . With the end of the German-German border, the location could no longer be used meaningfully and was closed. The large-capacity radars such. B. the station on the neighboring Döbraberg are still used.
Continuous deployment (DEST)
The Frankenwald barracks had small, fenced-in outposts that housed permanent deployments (DEST). The external DESTs were always provided with staff from the Frankenwald barracks in permanent shifts. At times the neighboring companies of the telecommunications regiment were also helped out with personnel.
The permanent deployments of the Frankenwald barracks (the first name in brackets):
- Naila ( Honey Pot ): Seat of the TMLZ
- Geroldsgrün- Steinbach / Langesbühl ( Echo 1 )
- Selb -Längenau / Wartberg ( Echo 2 )
- Mähring / Poppenreuther Berg ( Echo 3 )
- Moosbach -Rückersrieth / Eisberg ( Echo 4 )
Sister units
Along the inner-German border and that to the CSSR , the following locations were closely linked to the Frankenwald barracks in the TMLD:
Others
The Frankenwald barracks was known for being relaxed even for air force units. This was probably also due to the high-quality professional training that one enjoyed there as a conscript, and the fact that large parts of the staff were deployed close to home. The joint motivation call Naila-Bär can still be heard today at reservist meetings.
See also :
- Details on the low-flying reporting and control service
- List of Bundeswehr locations in Germany
- Naila