Gäuboden barracks
 Gäuboden barracks
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The Gäuboden barracks |
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| country | Germany | ||
| local community | Feldkirchen (Lower Bavaria) | ||
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 50 ′ N , 12 ° 33 ′ E | ||
| Opened | 1936 | ||
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| Medical training regiment |
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| 1936-1945 1945-1964 |
Straubing-M Air Base. Mansfield Barracks |
 
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| 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment 1st Mountain Division, 242nd Panzer Grenadier Battalion |
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Location of the Gäuboden barracks in Bavaria |
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The Gäubodenkaserne is a military property in Mitterharthausen near Feldkirchen and bears its name due to its geographical location in the Gäuboden .
history
1936 the construction began aviator Horst Straubing-Mitterhart Hausen started. The area in question supposedly belonged in part to the expropriated Jewish cattle and goods dealer Otto Selz from Straubing, who was one of the first Jews in Bavaria to fall victim to the Nazi terror. After he had successfully brought a trial against the weekly newspaper “ Der Stürmer ” before 1933 , he was abducted by members of the SA in March 1933 and was soon found murdered near Weng . The case was not pursued further; Only after the end of the war was the inscription on his tombstone added to the inscription "murdered" in the Regensburg Jewish cemetery .
The air base was the first target of the Anglo-American bomber groups in Lower Bavaria during World War II , which was recorded with detailed photos and approach maps. Due to the planned own use, the area was later spared from attacks.
After the war, the US Army took over the site. The barracks were named Mansfield Barracks . The 1st Battalion, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment , was last in garrison there from 1957 to 1964 , tasked with monitoring the border with Czechoslovakia . The Bundeswehr took over the property in 1966 and at the same time excluded some of the accommodations and officers' houses from the barracks area. The barracks has its own siding and is close to the Metting training area .
Until the 1990s, units of the Panzer Brigade 24 of the 1st Mountain Division were based in the Gäuboden barracks, including the Panzer Grenadier Battalion 242nd. The air base was used by army aviators .
Currently the medical training regiment , the medical supply center Feldkirchen, the driver training center Feldkirchen and, since October 2006, the center for emergency training and exercises for the medical service of the Bundeswehr are housed in the Gäuboden barracks. There is also a private vocational school for paramedics and the alumni association 242er-Gäubodengrenadiere e. V. in the property.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the history of the Jewish community in Straubing: 1933 , Alemannia-Judaica.de
- ^ The murder of the dealer Otto Selz ( memento of October 9, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), from the half-monthly report d. District President v. Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate, March 30, 1933, reproduced on the homepage of the Federal Agency for Civic Education.
- ↑ Feldkirchen (Ndby.) ( Memento from February 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Lower Bavaria only became interesting late ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in BOS pre-school pupils deal with the topic “60 years of air raids on Straubing” , idowa.de Mediendienste, 2007.
- ↑ Installation Directory - Germany: Regensburg , US Army, Europe.
