Gasterfeld (Wolfhagen)

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City of Wolfhagen
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '23 "  N , 9 ° 7' 46"  E
Height : 304  (280-315.6)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 431  (December 16, 2014)
Postal code : 34466
Area code : 05692

Gasterfeld , consisting of the districts Philippinendorf and Schanze , is a north-western part of Wolfhagen in the Kassel district in northern Hesse . The district is part of the Wolfhagen district .

In the area of ​​the village there was an ammunition facility of the Luftwaffe ( air main ammunition facility Wolfhagen ) from 1938 to 1945 and the Pomeranian barracks of the Bundeswehr from 1960 to 2008 .

Geographical location

Gasterfeld is located on the north-eastern edge of the Long Forest in the triangle between the Wolfhag core city in the southeast, the southwestern Bühle (to Bad Arolsen ) and the Wolfhag district Viesebeck in the north. To the north is the village, which is located on the western edge of the Habichtswald Nature Park at 280 to 315.6  m above sea level. NN is, passed by the Viesebeckerbach , to the south the landscape slopes down to the Dusebach .

Gasterfeld consists of the locally slightly offset settlements Philippinendorf (see Philippinenburg and -thal ) and Schanze , which are separated from each other by the federal highway 450 that runs through the village . Philippinendorf lies south and Schanze north of this road, which connects Wolfhagen in the southeast and Landau (to Bad Arolsen) in the west.

history

The oldest settlement in the area of ​​today's town is Philippinendorf, which was built in 1778 by settlers from the Darmstadt area as part of the settlement policy of the Hessian Landgrave Friedrich II of Hessen-Kassel and named after Friedrich II's wife Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt .

As part of the armament of the Wehrmacht by the Nazi regime , the German Air Force selected the Gasterfelder Holz , part of the Long Forest , in 1938 for the construction of an ammunition plant ( Muna for short ), which began that same year. At the same time, a siding to the Volkmarsen – Vellmar-Obervellmar railway was created. A housing estate with four houses for officers of the Muna was built on the southwest edge of the ski jump . The total area of ​​the Muna was about 277 hectares. In addition to the living and working areas, a large part of this area was taken up by around 110 above-ground bunkers for storing ammunition.

The air ammunition plant Wolfhagen served, like all Luftwaffe main ammunition plants, mainly for the production of flak ammunition . For this purpose, a group of work houses with a case cleaning system and a large number of warehouses and workshop buildings were available in the work area. The Muna staff consisted mainly of civil servants and, in the course of the Second World War, increasingly also of forced labor . Immediately before the approach of American troops , a large part of the bunkers and other buildings of the Muna were blown up on March 31, 1945 by the retreating German Wehrmacht .

In the post-war years, part of the Muna site was demunitioned . The remaining buildings were used for commercial and residential purposes. From 1948, more houses were built on the hill. This created an independent settlement north of Philippinendorf in the 1950s. The emerging development of the Muna into a mixed civilian area was ended with the establishment of the Bundeswehr in 1956. As part of the regional reform in Hesse , Philippinendorf and Schanze were combined under the name of Gasterfeld (after the medieval desertification of Gasterfeld ) in 1972 .

Until 1960, the Pomeranian barracks were built using the remaining buildings of the Muna . Until it was closed on June 30, 2008, it housed Panzerbataillon 54, renamed Panzerbataillon 64 in October 1981 and disbanded in 2008, and Panzerjäger company 50. From its formation in 1963 to its relocation to Montabaur in 1966, it was also the guard and escort company (6./350) of the rocket artillery battalion 350 stationed there. On August 5, 1976, Panzergrenadierbataillon 341 was stationed, renamed Panzergrenadierbataillon 62 in October 1981. In addition to the renaming in the course of the restructuring into Army Structure IV in October 1981 , at the same time and for the same reason two Companies of the mixed tank battalion 61, the 2nd and 4th companies, were housed in the Pomeranian barracks. Until it was closed, the barracks were an important economic factor for the nearby town of Wolfhagen. After the demilitarization in 2008, an educational institution and several medium-sized companies were located here.

From the grill hut built in 1989, which stands on the southern edge of the Schanze district, you have a remarkable view over the Wolfhager Land. The reservist comradeship Wolfhagen, founded in 1983, has its own club house on the site of the former Pomerania barracks.

literature

  • Bernd Klinkhardt: Wolfhagen Air Main Ammunition Plant LHMa 1 / XII Wn: History and present of a former ammunition factory , Wolfhagen 2004

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures in the 2015 budget of the city of Wolfhagen , accessed in February 2016.
  2. ^ "Gasterfeld (desert), Kassel district". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of November 11, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ^ Jürgen Dreifke: Corps artillery in the German Army 1957-1994 , pp. 14-15