Harthberg barracks
 Harthberg barracks
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| country | Germany | ||
| local community | Schwalmstadt | ||
| Coordinates : | 50 ° 55 ' N , 9 ° 12' E | ||
| Opened | 1959-1961 | ||
| owner | City of Schwalmstadt and private companies | ||
| Formerly stationed units | |||
| * Armored Artillery Battalion 21 * Rocket Artillery Battalion 22 * Training Company 11/2 * Accompanying Battery 2 * 7th US Army Field Artillery Detachment * Supply Regiment 5 * Supply Battalion 51 * Feldjäger Training Company 700 (7th / Feldjägerbataillon 801, 6th / Feldjäger Training Battalion 351) |
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Location of the Harthberg barracks in Hesse |
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The Harthberg barracks in Schwalmstadt - Treysa in the Schwalm-Eder district in northern Hesse was a Bundeswehr location for the army from 1961 to the end of 2006 . Since the purchase of the area by a wood processing company in 2007 and the city of Schwalmstadt in 2009, commercial space and apartments have been created there.
Geographical location
The approximately 34.5 hectare site of the former barracks is located east of the core town of Treysa on a southern slope in and on the Treysa city forest Hardt; In addition, around 4 hectares in the Linde municipal forest were used for the shooting range . The route of the Main-Weser-Bahn runs to the west from Frankfurt via Marburg to Kassel . In the south, the Kanonenbahn and Knüllwaldbahn tracks, which were closed in 1995 and on which the Rotkäppchenland cycle path runs today , and the 454 federal road pass the site.
history
Construction of the new barracks began on October 1, 1959, and the topping-out ceremony for the first 12 buildings took place on September 9, 1960 . A further 13 buildings were added later in a second construction phase. In order to stop the passage of the heavy tracked vehicles through the Treysar city center to the Treysa station , the Deutsche Bundesbahn built a siding with a double head ramp at the western edge of the Harthberg barracks from the old station in the east of the city.
Armored Artillery Battalion 21
On September 21, 1961 the Panzerartilleriebataillon 21 (PzArtBtl 21) moved into the barracks. The battalion was set up in Niederlahnstein in May 1958 as III./Feldartillerieregiment 2 (III./FArtRgt 2) and from March 15, 1959, renamed Panzerartilleriebataillon 21 (PzArtBtl 21) on that day, until September 21, 1961 in the Airfield barracks Fritzlar stationed. On December 19, 1959, it was renamed Feldartilleriebataillon 21 (FArtBtl 21) and on July 1, 1961, it was renamed PzArtBtl 21 again. With the battalion came the training company 11/2 (AusbKp 11/2) subordinate to him to Treysa.
The battalion was disbanded on September 30, 1993 when the Bundeswehr units were disbanded.
Missile Artillery Battalion 22
In September 1961 the 5th battery of Artillery Battalion 22 (from April 1969 Raketenartilleriebataillon 22 (RakArtBtl 22)) came to Treysa, followed in June 1962 by the 4th battery of the same battalion. In February 1969, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd batteries and the battalion staff moved from Frankenberg (Eder) , where they had been since February 1962, to the Harthberg barracks. In its deployment phase from January 1960 to September 1961, the battalion's batteries were located in Wolfhagen (2nd battery), Neustadt (Hessen) (5th battery), Gießen (4th battery) and Schwarzenborn (staff, 1st, 3rd battery) . and 4th battery) were scattered.
The 5th battery (accompanying battery) of ArtBtl 22, which was set up in Neustadt on April 6, 1961 and moved to the Harthberg barracks in September 1961, was renamed 4./RakArtBtl 22 on April 1, 1979 as part of the reclassification to Army Model 4. Her tasks included securing the transport of combat ammunition and - in close cooperation with the 7th US Army Field Artillery Detachment - guarding the Treysa special ammunition dump east of the training area , where the nuclear warheads for the two artillery battalions and, from 1972, also for the armored artillery battalion 65 in Mengeringhausen were stored. The PzArtBtl 21 had a battery of M110 howitzers capable of nuclear weapons , and the RakArtBtl 22 had six rocket launchers for the short-range missile " Honest John " from 1960, and only four from 1970 . The battery initially consisted of four, from 1991 only two trains . On April 1, 1990, under the new name Begleitbatterie 2, it was directly subordinated to Artillery Regiment 2, at the end of September 1992 it was initially subordinated to Field Artillery Battalion 21 and then dissolved on September 30, 1993.
Simultaneously with the spin-off of the escort battery in April 1990, the RakArtBtl 22 received a new 4th and 5th battery, each equipped with multiple rocket launchers of the medium artillery rocket system (MARS) .
The battalion was disbanded on September 30, 1992.
7th US Army Field Artillery Detachment
On May 9, 1962, the 7th US Army Field Artillery Detachment, set up in Fort Sill , Oklahoma , as the 7th US Army Missile Detachment in December 1961, came to Treysa. It belonged to the 512th US Army Artillery Group, from June 1966 to the 557th US Army Artillery Group. The unit had about tensile strength and guarded the "inner restricted area" of the Treysa special ammunition dump. Access to this area was only permitted for German personnel when accompanied by at least two American soldiers. The detachment was moved back to the United States on June 25, 1992 and disbanded there.
Resupply and military police units
In order to maintain the Treysa location, after the dissolution of the two artillery battalions, the Field Jäger Training Company 700, the staff of the 5th Supply Regiment and the Supply Battalion 51 (NSchBtl 51) with the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, (inactive) 10th and from 2001 also 7th company reorganized. The 5th Company of NschBtl 52, a so-called KRK unit, was subordinate to the battalion in times of peace.
During the army regrouping in 1996 ( "New Army for New Tasks") , the headquarters company of the newly formed Logistics Regiment 5 (LogRgt 5) was stationed in Treysa and NschBtl 51 with its subordinate 5./NschBtl 52 of this brigade The replenishment training center 50 and the 6th (SGA) company of NschBtl 310 were also stationed in the Harthberg barracks.
When the Army was reclassified again in 2001 ( "Army of the Future (2001-2006)" ), the NSchBtl 51 was subordinated to the Logistics Brigade 100 in Unna . The 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, (not active) 7th (field replacement Kp.) And 8th (training Kp.) Company stayed in Schwalmstadt, while the 2nd company in Unna and the 3rd company. were stationed in Ahlen . The 5th supply regiment was decommissioned on September 30, 2003, and the 51 supply battalion was disbanded on December 31, 2006. After being renamed twice and placed under other battalions, the Feldjägerkompanie was relocated to the Alheimer barracks in Rotenburg an der Fulda towards the end of 2006 .
Emergency shelter for emigrants
From 13 November to 1 December 1989, the barracks were about 1,000 from in this vacated buildings GDR refugee and special trains from the German Embassy in Prague has come emigrants temporarily housed until they were then distributed according to a key to the federal states.
Closure and current use
In 2005 it was decided to close the location. It was carried out at the end of 2006 with the decommissioning of the supply battalion 51 and the relocation of the military police company to Rotenburg. In October 2007, extensive clearing and new construction work began in the former technical area in the eastern part of the barracks for a wood processing company that had acquired over 20 hectares there and has been in operation there ever since. The city of Schwalmstadt bought the remaining 17 hectares on August 6, 2009 and began marketing them to private customers.
Stationed units
- Panzerartilleriebataillon 21 (PzArtBtl 21): September 21, 1961 to September 30, 1993
- Training company 11/2 (AusbKp 11/2): September 21, 1961 to September 30, 1967
- Field artillery battalion 21 / Raketenartilleriebataillon 22 (RakArtBtl 22): 1961/1962/1969 to September 30, 1992
- Accompanying battery 2 (BeglBttr 2): April 1, 1990 to September 30, 1993
- 7th Field Artillery Detachment (US Army): May 9, 1962 to June 25, 1992
- Resupply Regiment 5 (NschRgt 5): 1993 to September 30, 1996
- Supply Battalion 51 (NschBtl 51): 1993 to December 31, 2006
- 5th Company Supply Battalion 52 - later 5./LogBtl 51 (5./NschBtl 52): 1997 to December 31, 2006
- Logistics Regiment 5 (LogRgt 5): 1996 to September 30, 2003
- Resupply Training Center 50 (NschAZ 50): 1998 to September 30, 2003
- 6th Company Supply Battalion 310 (6./NschBtl 310): 1996 to September 30, 2003
- Feldjägerausbildungskompanie 700 (FJgAusbKp 700) / 7th Kp./Feldjägerbataillon 801 (7./FJgBtl 801) / 6th Kp./Feldjägerausbildungsbataillon 351 (6./FjgAusbBtl 351): 1993 to 2006
Web links
- Traditional association Schwälmer Artillerie 1992 eV: Garrison Treysa
- Site plan of the former Hardtberg barracks
- Underground nuclear bunker, former Harthberg barracks Treysa (video)
- Treysaer Kaserne: How soldiers would have survived a nuclear war, HNA, April 8, 2011