Gneisenau barracks (Koblenz)
 Gneisenau barracks
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| Surname | 1938-2018 | ||
| local community | Koblenz | ||
| Coordinates : | 50 ° 20 ' N , 7 ° 37' E | ||
| Opened | 1936 to 1938 | ||
| Old barracks names | |||
| 1949-1957 | Caserne Jeanne d'Arc |
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| Infantry Regiment 80 Panzer Grenadier Battalion 5 Army Music Corps 300 Panzer Battalion 344 |
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Location of the Gneisenau barracks in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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The Gneisenau barracks , named after August Neidhardt von Gneisenau , is a barracks in Koblenz . It was built from 1936 to 1938 on the Horchheimer Höhe as one of several new barracks for the Wehrmacht .
history
In the course of the remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936, a number of new barracks were built in Koblenz, as most of the old locations were no longer available due to the demilitarization as a result of the Versailles Treaty . After about two years of construction, the barracks were handed over to the III on October 30, 1938. Battalion of the 80th Infantry Regiment. After the Second World War , the American army took over the site, which among other things maintained a camp for displaced persons - mainly former Polish forced laborers. At the beginning of May 1949, the barracks passed to the French occupation , who renamed the complex Caserne Jeanne d'Arc . On January 3, 1957, the French army handed the site over to the German Armed Forces , which occupied the barracks with the 5 Panzer Grenadier Battalion until February 1957. In later years the Army Music Corps 300 was stationed here. The abandonment of the property by the Bundeswehr was withdrawn in 2018 by the BMVg. The Gneisenau barracks will continue to be used for the purposes of the Bundeswehr.
literature
- Koblenz city archive: (StAK) DB 8 military, 07 barracks: 3.29 Gneisenau barracks.
- Rüdiger Wischemann: The Koblenz Fortress. From the Roman fort and Prussia's strongest fortress to the largest garrison of the Bundeswehr. Koblenz 1978, p. 148. (Note: outdated in many ways, but still the best representation for an overview).
Web links
- pzbtl144-344.com - website of the "Friends of former members of PzBtl 144 - 344 eV"