Graf Haeseler barracks (Lebach)

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GermanyFlag of Germany (state) .svg Graf Haeseler barracks
country Germany
local community Lebach
Coordinates : 49 ° 24 '  N , 6 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '20 "  N , 6 ° 54' 32"  E
Opened 1936
Stationed troops
Telecommunication company Eurocorps Airborne Reconnaissance
Company 260
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Old barracks names
1961 to 1966 New barracks GermanyFlag of Germany (state) .svg
Formerly stationed units
Field hospital
paratrooper battalion 261
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Graf Haeseler Barracks (Saarland)
Graf Haeseler barracks

Location of the Graf Haeseler barracks in Saarland

The Graf-Haeseler-Kaserne in Lebach is the oldest garrison of the Bundeswehr in Saarland . It was built in 1936 and was named "Graf-Haeseler-Kaserne" on December 9, 1966, named after the Prussian field marshal Gottlieb von Haeseler (1836-1919), who had already been in command of the Lebach region, especially the Hoxberg , around 1890 XVI. Army corps from Metz , used as maneuvering area.

The barracks are centrally located in the Lebach district of Jabach, on Dillinger Strasse.

history

After the Rhineland was occupied in 1936 , the planning of new barracks began in the area of ​​the former Saar area . So from 1936 the construction of the two barracks in Lebach-Jabach on Dillinger Strasse began. A barracks for parts of the Border Infantry Regiment 125 and a barracks for parts of the Artillery Regiment 36 , today's Graf Haeseler barracks.

Barracks building of the infantry regiment

The foundation stone of the "Hermann Göring" barracks was laid on June 26, 1938, the topping-out ceremony a year later, and completion took place in June 1940. The barracks were manned by soldiers throughout and also served from October 1940 for 2000 and from September 1941 for 3000 wounded as a hospital. In 1944 the hospital was closed and a field hospital remained. After the end of the fighting in Saarland, the US Army occupied the barracks from March 18, 1945. From April 1945 the barracks became a refugee and transit camp by the United Nations Emergency Relief and Reconstruction Administration (UNRRA). From July of the same year, the French army moved into the barracks. In the spring of 1947, a Catholic teachers' college with an attached boarding school moved into parts of the building. Secondary schools were added later. Today the buildings house two grammar schools, a secondary school, a school for the blind and deaf, as well as the Saarland Chamber of Agriculture and the Lebach Adult Education Center.

Barracks of the artillery regiment

Construction of the barracks began in 1936/37, however, due to the war, it was no longer completed and the buildings were left standing as a shell. During excavation work on the south-western building, the foundations of a Roman villa (Villa Weinheck) were found. The finds are exhibited at the Museum of Prehistory and Early History. This building was the most damaged during a bombing raid on December 9, 1944. After the war ended, binoculars and microscopes were manufactured in the buildings. In 1951 a stationing agreement was signed and after the renovation, French armored troops moved in in 1952. After the Saarland was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany on January 1, 1957, the French military withdrew in 1958. On April 14, 1961, the paratrooper battalion 261 of the Bundeswehr moved into the "New Barracks".

In 1964 the barracks and the soldiers stationed there served as a backdrop for television recordings by Lale Andersen with the song Lili Marleen . By Major General Christian Schaeder the barracks on 9 December 1966 in "Graf-Haeseler barracks" was renamed.

In 1969, the barracks gained nationwide attention through the so-called Lebach soldier murder . On January 20, 1969, the local munitions defeat (StOMunNdlg) was attacked by two armed people, four soldiers were killed and the fifth seriously injured.

In the course of the Bundeswehr reform there were changes in the Graf-Haeseler barracks. The paratrooper battalion 261 was dissolved and instead of the brigade staff (LLBrig 26 / StKp) an airborne reconnaissance company (LL AufklKp 260) was stationed in Lebach. The relocation of the staff from Saarlouis to Lebach was planned for the second quarter of 2016, but the brigade will remain in the Graf Werder barracks in Saarlouis. In addition, the telecommunications company EuroKorps, previously stationed in Sigmaringen, and the Bundeswehr career center, previously in Saarlouis, were relocated to the Graf-Haeseler barracks.

Current units

Former units

  • Paratrooper Battalion 261 (H) (1961-2015)
  • Airborne Supply Battalion 266 (H) (1966–1969)
  • Airborne Mortar Company 260 (H) (1971–1996)
  • Airborne Medical Company 260 (H) (1982-2002)
  • Medical Relay Lebach (ZSan) (2007-2015)

literature

  • Volker Lilienthal: Deposed ready for broadcast. ZDF, SAT 1 and the Lebach soldier murder. Vistas-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-89158-319-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the paratrooper battalion 261 on the Bundeswehr website.
  2. ^ Citizens in uniform belong to the city from the Saarbrücker Zeitung , Saarlouis edition, April 8, 2011, p. C1, by Monika Kühn.
  3. "Saar Stories" (PDF; 6.1 MB) 2/2012, page 12-15.
  4. Special edition Historischer Verein Lebach (PDF; 6.2 MB), see article on page 4.
  5. "Lebach Historical Calendar" (PDF; 3.8 MB), Volume 12 "End of War 1945", ed. from the historical association Lebach, 2005.
  6. kü: Not in front of, but in the barracks ( memento of the original from December 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the traditional Lebacher Fallschirmjäger community, accessed on February 21, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.traditionsgemeinschaft.de
  7. Monika Kühn: A minute's silence for the victims ( memento of the original from December 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the traditional Lebacher Fallschirmjäger community, accessed on February 21, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.traditionsgemeinschaft.de
  8. The airborne brigade staff remains in Saarlouis after all - Bundeswehr reform is being revised .
  9. BMVg: "The stationing of the Bundeswehr in Germany - October 2011" ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 35 (PDF document). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jugendoffizier.eu