Border Brigade 5
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The Grenzbrigade 5 (Gz Br 5) was one of eleven border brigades of the Swiss Army . The militia troops from the canton of Aargau were subordinate to the 2nd Army Corps (since 1961 Field Army Corps 2 , FAK 2). The Border Brigade 5 existed from 1938 to 1994 ( Army 95 ).
history
The border troops were reorganized in accordance with the Hague Agreement with the 1938 Troop Order (TO 38) and 11 border brigades (Gz Br) were created. In addition to the border fusilier battalions, they had a company of cyclists, motorized mitrailleurs and infantry gunners .
Border Brigade 5 was assigned to the 2nd Army Corps for training and deployment preparation. The subordination during the mission was determined by the respective operation plan. In all units of the border troops, militiamen residing in the operational area were assigned because the border troops were the first to be mobilized in the event of mobilization and had to be ready for immediate action so that the mobilization of the majority of the army could not be disrupted.
The brigade was an infantry unit when it was formed and had to lead the attrition from the border. The operational area had a front width of 34 km and a depth of 12 km. On the left was the border to Border Brigade 4 at Stein Säckingen ⊙ and on the right to Border Brigade 6 at Kaiserstuhl ⊙ . The back line led from the room Aarau ⊙ about Holderbank , Untersiggenthal to Wettingen ⊙ .
Border Brigade 5 was mobilized on September 1, 1939. During the whole of the Second World War, it remained in its home region, but the operational area and the shelter were adjusted several times ( Limmat position , reference to the Reduit ).
The order of Border Brigade 5 was: "Hold to the last cartridge", as with all border brigades. An enemy had to be prevented from crossing the Rhine by all means, and the axes that followed had to be blocked. In addition to the Neutrality Protection Service (NSD), the association ensured the destruction of the Rhine crossings, prevented a push into the moated castle and resisted a push through its room.
After 1945 funds, orders and the organization of Border Brigade 5 were periodically updated and the infrastructure was modernized. The brigade's last dispositive (1980s) was designed for an attack from the east along the Swiss border westwards with a possible parallel thrust across Swiss territory.
Units (as of 1994)
- Border Brigade Staff 5
- Infantry regiments 50, 73, 89
- 16th Infantry Regiment (Army Reserve)
- five anti-tank guided missile companies (PAL Kp), two anti-tank companies (Pzaw Kp)
- Fortress section 45 (with six 12 cm fortress mine throwers)
- Works companies 23, 24, 25, 26
- Reconnaissance Company III / 5 ( Field Division 5 )
- PAL Kp 44 (FAK 2)
- Direct support from self-propelled howitzer department (DU Pz Hb Abt 32) (FAK 2)
Command posts, artillery works and blocking points
The works and blocking points of Border Brigade 5 were in the canton of Aargau and in the adjacent area:
- Command post (KP): KP Grenzbrigade 5 Wallbach A 3966 , KP Überthal / Riedacker A 3869 , KP Reinerberg A 3892 , KP Holzmatt / Bözberg F 5700 , transmission center Überthal / Oberbözberg A 3868 , medical aid station (San Hist) Ampferenhöhe A 3908
- Artillery works and positions (Art Stel): Besserstein A 3856 , Geissberg A 3863 , Homberg A 3962 , Reuenthal A 4263 , Villiger-Buck A 3846 , artillery position Bächlimatte A 4519, Sagel A 3934 .
- Blocking points (blocking points of national importance with *): Baldingen ⊙ , Bernau ⊙ , Biberstein ⊙ , Bossenhus ⊙ , Bözberg ⊙ , Bürersteig ⊙ , Densbüren * ⊙ , Döttingen-Tegerfelden ⊙ , Eiken ⊙ , Endingen ⊙ , Etzgen ⊙ , Felsenau ⊙ , Fisibach ⊙ , Frick * ⊙ , Hägele ⊙ , Hardwald ⊙ , Hertenstein ⊙ , Kaiserstuhl ⊙ , Kaisten ⊙ , Koblenz * ⊙ , Laufenburg ⊙ , Leibstadt ⊙ , Leidikon ⊙ , Letzi ⊙ , Leuggern ⊙ , Mellikon ⊙ , Mettau ⊙ , Obererlinsbach ⊙ , Oberzeihen ⊙ , Rein-Roost * ⊙ , Rekingen ⊙ , Reuenthal-Full * ⊙ , Rietheim ⊙ , Rümikon ⊙ , Schwaderloch ⊙ , Siglistorf ⊙ , Stein ⊙ , Stelli ⊙ , Villigen * ⊙ , Zurzach * ⊙
Fortress Museum Reuenthal
The Full-Reuenthal Military and Fortress Museum is the sponsor of the Reuenthal Fortress Museum, which has been in existence since 1989, and the Swiss Military Museum Full, which opened in 2004 . In addition to operating these two museums, the association owns around 90 military and historical installations in the canton of Aargau and neighboring areas (infantry and artillery plants, tank barriers, infantry shelters, anti-tank works, observation bunkers, command posts, medical bunkers). The association also took over the museum conversion of the former bunkered command post of Border Brigade 5.
literature
- Hans Jörg Huber (Ed.): 50 Years of Grenzbrigade 5 1938–1988 . Baden Verlag, Baden 1988, ISBN 3-85545-029-3 .
- Silvio Keller, Maurice Lovisa, Patrick Geiger: Military-historical monuments in the canton of Aargau, VBS 2006
Web links
- Swiss television from April 2, 2015: Military and Fortress Museum Full-Reuenthal is growing: 30 new objects
- Little Porcupine: Border Brigade 5th
- Effingermedien from January 29, 2016: Future plans for military installations in Villnachern - KP Grenzbrigade 5 im Balmhübel, Wallnach
Individual evidence
- ↑ Agreement on the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in the Event of Land War, concluded in The Hague on October 18, 1907.
- ↑ Silvio Keller, Maurice Lovisa, Patrick Geiger: Military historical monuments in the canton of Aargau, VBS 2006
- ^ Fortress Oberland: Grenzbrigade 5. Accessed April 14, 2019 .
- ^ Reuenthal Fortress Museum: Military-historical installations
- ↑ Hans Peter Widmer: Aargau makes top secret military facilities accessible to the public , Aargauer Zeitung , August 30, 2015