Gustav Heinemann barracks
Gustav Heinemann barracks | |||
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Former barracks buildings |
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country | Germany | ||
today | Lenovo Medion Campus | ||
local community | Food kray | ||
Coordinates : | 51 ° 28 ' N , 7 ° 4' E | ||
Opened | 1936 | ||
owner |
Medion AG Federal Finance Directorate |
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Old barracks names | |||
1936-1945 1945-1960 1976-2003 |
Flak-Kaserne Meeanee Barracks Gustav-Heinemann-Kaserne |
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Formerly stationed units | |||
Anti-aircraft 1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders Telecommunications Battalion 71 Telecommunications Battalion 284 |
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Location of the Gustav Heinemann barracks in North Rhine-Westphalia |
The Gustav-Heinemann-Kaserne was used from 1936 to 2003 barracks in Essen district Kray .
location
The former barracks area is located north of the Am Zehnthof street in the Essen-Kray district, directly south of the A40 federal motorway and covers a total area of around 202,000 m².
history
The barracks were built in 1936 when the Wehrmacht was arming the anti-aircraft cartillery. After 1945 it was used by the British Army of the Rhine until May 27, 1960, when the 1st German Corps was commissioned to set up Telecommunications Battalion 71 there.
In March 1962, the Signal Battalion was 71 of Army Group North of NATO assumed and part was connected to the NORTHAG SIGNAL SUPPORT GROUP so that the deployment of NATO unit in the barracks. In October 1970 the battalion was named Fernmeldebataillon 840 NORTHAG. In 1994 the 890 telecommunications battalion moved CENTAG from the Philippsburger Salm barracks to Essen and "merged" with the 840 telecommunications battalion to form the 990 telecommunications regiment, which was reclassified to the 990 telecommunications battalion in 2002 and finally renamed the 284 telecommunications battalion in June 2002 .
With a solemn vow and march out of the Essen location, the telecommunications battalion 284 said goodbye on March 21, 2003 as the last association from the Ruhr area and moved its headquarters to the Schill barracks in Wesel , where it continues to exist in a modified form. The eight-meter-high copper-clad wooden frame bell tower of the Catholic site chapel was dismantled and also brought to Wesel.
Naming
The barracks got its name in 1978 after the former Federal President Gustav Heinemann who died in Essen on July 7, 1976 .
Others
The namesake Gustav Heinemann resigned from his position as Federal Minister of the Interior due to the rearmament of the Federal Republic initiated by Konrad Adenauer in 1950 .
In the barracks there was a collection point for “Lachen help eV”, the private initiative of German soldiers to help children in war and crisis areas, until it was closed.
Most of the site was sold to Medion AG in the same year that the telecommunications operators were withdrawn , and they operate a technology park there on an area of around 170,000 m². In addition, the customs administration settled there and bundled its activities in Essen. The Turkish Consulate General in Essen (formerly Alfredstrasse) has also been located on the former barracks site since 2011 .
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- Federal archive / military archive
- Chronicle of telecommunications battalion 284
- Report on the transfer of troops
- Press release on the troop withdrawal from the city of Essen
- Barracks at BAOR Locations
- WAZ / NRZ, Essen local section from June 19, 2018, Essen 40 years ago: the barracks in Kray got their name