Herrenwald barracks

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GermanyFlag of Germany (state) .svg Herrenwald barracks
country Germany
local community Stadtallendorf
Coordinates : 50 ° 49 '  N , 9 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '20 "  N , 9 ° 1' 38"  E
Opened 1958-1959
Stationed troops
Rapid Forces Division Headquarters
and Telecommunication Company
Rapid Forces Division
Liaison command of the Air Force to the Rapid Forces Division 4th / Supply Battalion 7
Material testing team Stadtallendorf
Army repair logistics base in Schwarzenborn Branch Stadtallendorf
BWI Informationstechnik GmbH Stadtallendorf
Regional planning and support team Stadtallendorf
Wallmeistertrupp Stadtallendorf
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Formerly stationed units
Panzerartilleriebataillon 65
Panzerbataillon 141 (active part)
Panzerartilleriebataillon 145
Panzer reconnaissance company 60
training company 2/5
tank training company driving simulator chain 301
Panzer engineer company 140
supplies battalion 71 (Unit)
2./Instandsetzungsbataillon 2
5./Instandsetzungsbataillon 2
repair battalion 51
repair battalion 53 (Unit)
logistics battalion 51
logistics center of the Armed Forces - Logistic Control Unit 22
Supply
Battalion 66 Airborne Telecommunications Battalion Special Operations Division
Observation Battalion 2
Observation Battalion 23
Special Operations Division
Drone Battery 13
Drone Battery 23
Field Artillery Battalion 55
Anti-Aircraft Battery 40
7th / Observation Tank Artillery Battalion 131
Sound
Measurement Battery 2 Radar Battery 2
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Herrenwald barracks (Hesse)
Herrenwald barracks

Location of the Herrenwald barracks in Hesse

The Herrenwald barracks is a barracks of the Bundeswehr in Stadtallendorf near Marburg in Hessen . It was built on the site of the former explosives factory of the Westfälisch-Anhaltische Sprengstoff-Actien-Gesellschaft (WASAG), which had produced Hexyl for ammunition production on behalf of the Navy High Command during World War II. The barracks were handed over in 1959 and mainly housed tank , tank artillery and artillery units during the Cold War . Today it is the seat of the Rapid Forces division . It is located in the immediate vicinity of the Hessen barracks to be closed according to the stationing concept in 2011 and will be retained.

history

With the completion of the barracks on April 1, 1959, the 65 armored artillery battalion was set up. The battalion belonged to Panzer Brigade 6 of the 2nd Panzer Grenadier Division, which was designated as the 2nd Jägerdivision from October 1, 1970. Panzerbrigade 6, like Panzerbrigades 14 and 34, participated in the testing of Army Model 4 from July 1, 1976 to June 30, 1977. As a result of this attempt, Panzerbrigade 6 was subordinated to the 5th Panzer Division from January 1, 1977 and renamed to 14 Panzer Brigade on October 1, 1981. This also led to changes in the nomenclature of all units subordinate to the tank brigade. On October 1, 1981, the armored artillery battalion 65, stationed in the Herrenwald barracks, became the armored artillery battalion 145. It remained at the location until March 31, 1993 and was then disbanded.

Also on April 1, 1959, the supply battalion 66 of the 6th Panzer Brigade was set up in the Herrenwald barracks. It was here until its dissolution on 30 June 1972 in the course of taking the army structure 3. It was in the repair company 60 and the supply company 60, but in the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt barracks in Neustadt (Hessen) a new Found home.

In 1959, Panzer Reconnaissance Company 60 of Panzer Brigade 6 was established in the Herrenwald barracks . However, it was disbanded on November 1, 1962 and integrated into the brigade's headquarters as a brigade reconnaissance platoon .

Field artillery battalion 55 was set up in the Scharnhorst camp in Gießen (later: Steuben barracks ) on March 1, 1959 and gradually moved to Stadtallendorf from June 29, 1959. It only stayed here until September 20, 1961, when it came to Homberg (Efze) . There it was reclassified to Panzerartilleriebataillon 55 on October 16, 1967.

The middle repair company 421 was set up in 1959 in Stadtallendorf. After that, the repair battalion 2, formed on October 1, 1975 and disbanded on March 31, 1994, was present in Stadtallendorf with the 2nd and 5th companies.

From 1960 the training company 5/2 was based in the barracks.

The anti-aircraft battery 40 was set up as the brigade's battery on November 10, 1961 and relocated to Fritzlar on November 1, 1964, where it was disbanded on November 8, 1966 and incorporated into the 7th anti-aircraft battalion.

In 1965 the mountain train 424 was set up in the Herrenwaldkaserne, which was subordinate to the middle repair battalion 420. The battalion was assigned to the 2nd Panzer Grenadier Division.

The sound measuring battery 2 and radar battery 2, which were installed in the Boelcke barracks in Koblenz in 1966 from observation battery 371, were relocated to Stadtallendorf in September 1966 and placed under Artillery Regiment 2. Both units were absorbed into observation battalion 2 on October 1, 1970, which was created in the Herrenwald barracks on the same day. The battalion was renamed "Observation Battalion 23" on October 1, 1979 and remained in Stadtallendorf until it was disbanded on August 31, 1993.

The drone battery 23 was created in the barracks on October 1, 1979. It was renamed to drone battery 13 on September 1, 1993 and dissolved on December 31, 2002. The unit became part of the observation tank artillery battalion 131 as a 7th battery , which was based in Thuringia. In 2009 this battery was also taken out of service.

The partially active tank battalion 141 (mixed) was set up as another unit of the tank brigade 14 in the course of Army Structure 4 on October 1, 1981 in the Herrenwald barracks, with some companies being housed at other locations. With the end of the Cold War , the battalion was disbanded on September 30, 1992.

The Panzerpionierkompanie 140, which had emerged with the Army Structure 4 by renaming the Panzerpionierkompanie 60, also changed its location from the Hessen barracks to the Herrenwald barracks on October 1, 1981. It remained here until it was dissolved on September 20, 2002.

The field replacement battalion 54 was stored as a device unit in the mobilization base near the Herrenwald barracks until its dissolution in 1993.

From January 1, 1986, the Stadtallendorf 1 driving school group existed in the barracks. Driving school groups 1 to 3 in Stadtallendorf were combined on April 1, 1994 to form the Stadtallendorf motor vehicle training center, which was located in the Hessen barracks until March 31, 2007. Between February 1, 1978 and 1989, the tank training company driving simulator chain 301 existed in the Herrenwald barracks.

In April 1993, the Herrenwald barracks hit the national headlines after an armored car had been stolen unnoticed from the military premises on April 4, 1993 in order to free a triple murderer in the Schwalmstadt correctional facility in the Schwalmstadt district of Ziegenhain .

On April 1, 1993, the repair battalion 51 was formed in the Herrenwald barracks. Mainly the repair company 50 from Homberg (Efze) was used for this. The battalion was renamed Logistics Battalion 51 on October 1, 2002 and finally disbanded on June 30, 2008. It went up in the Airborne Communication Battalion Rapid Operations Division.

Furthermore, between October 1, 1997 and June 30, 2008, the repair battalion 53 existed as a non-active device unit in the Herrenwald barracks, although it was assigned to the 13th Panzer Grenadier Division from the beginning , later its Jägerbrigade 37 from Saxony.

The 71 supply battalion, formed as a device unit on April 1, 1994, was initially stored in the Dortmund- Sölde mobilization base before it was moved to the Herrenwald barracks in Stadtallendorf in 2002. Here it was finally disbanded on June 30, 2008.

On October 1, 2002, the logistic control point 22 of the logistics center of the Bundeswehr was created in the barracks, which existed until October 2, 2008.

As of January 1, 2008, the Airborne Communication Battalion Special Operations Division was set up in the Herrenwald barracks. This process took several months, so that the commissioning roll call did not take place until June 6, 2008. However, the battalion was disbanded on September 30, 2014 with the decision to deploy it in 2011.

On March 3, 2009, the Stadtallendorf branch of the Schwarzenborn army repair logistics base was established, which still exists in the Herrenwald barracks today.

BWI Informationstechnik GmbH Stadtallendorf has been established at the site since August 1st, 2009.

On April 1, 2001 in Regensburg from the command air mobile forces / 4. The special operations division that emerged from the division was relocated to the Herrenwald barracks in Stadtallendorf on April 1, 2010. It was dissolved on June 30, 2014 after the Rapid Forces division was established at the site on January 1, 2014 and is still stationed here today. With the division, the air force's liaison command to the special operations division (until December 31, 2013) and to the rapid forces division (from January 1, 2014) is based in the barracks.

Since February 1, 2013, the regional planning and support team Stadtallendorf and the Wallmeistertrupp Stadtallendorf are stationed in the barracks.

As of January 1, 2014, the headquarters and telecommunication company Division Fast Forces will be active at the site.

The 4th Company of the 7th Supply Battalion has been in the Herrenwald Barracks since July 1, 2015.

In the 1980s, the location telecommunications system 415/203 was set up in the barracks.

The dental station (Terr) H 435 Stadtallendorf 2 and the dentist group 417/2 between April 1, 1981 and 1989 were set up at the site for medical care between April 1, 1977 and March 31, 1981. From July 1, 1972 to September 30, 1998, the medical area 47/3 was equipped with material. From October 1, 1998 to March 31, 2005, the Stadtallendorf on-site medical center was housed in the Herrenwald barracks. Between July 1, 2004 and September 30, 2015, there was also the Stadtallendorf medical center in the barracks, which was equipped with a reinforcement reserve from January 1, 2007.

The military history collection of the Rapid Forces Division (DSK) is housed in the barracks.

With the closure of the Hessen barracks planned for 2018, the Herrenwaldkaserne is to accommodate the remaining facilities and soldiers that were still in the Hessen barracks. In particular, this includes a group of dentists.

In addition, the plan for 2019 is to relocate the control center of the SAR air rescue service from Münster to Stadtallendorf.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine: "Location Stadtallendorf: The division remains" from June 13, 2012
  2. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z location database of the Bundeswehr in the Federal Republic of Germany as well as the training grounds used by the Bundeswehr abroad of the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of armed forces
  3. ^ A b c Friends of the Military History Collection Panzerbrigade 14 "Hessischer Löwe" eV: "Development of the Bundeswehr at the site"
  4. broschuere.de (ed.): Stadtallendorf - Herrenwald barracks and Hessen barracks
  5. Sylke Grede: "In 1993 a murderer was freed from the Ziegenhain prison with a tank: The taxi out of prison", in: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine from February 20, 2010
  6. ^ The repair company 50 in Homberg is subordinate to the newly established repair battalion 51 in Stadtallendorf, April 1, 1993. Contemporary history in Hessen. (As of October 2012). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  7. Claus Heinrich Gattermann: From Saxony to the Hindu Kush - The history of the Panzergrenadierbrigade 37, Norderstedt 2013, p. 58
  8. ^ History InstBtl 53 at the Traditionsverband Instandsetzungbataillon 53 e. V.
  9. Alfons Wieber: "The airborne telecommunications battalion was disbanded with a festive ceremony: an appeal to conclude", in: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine from March 20, 2014
  10. ^ Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine: "General came by parachute - 500 guests welcomed the division: Landing in the region" on October 17, 2010
  11. Museumsverbund Landkreis Marburg-Biedenkopf e. V.
  12. Michael Rinde: "Division Fast Forces The cooperation works 'smoothly'", in: Oberhessische Presse of January 8, 2016
  13. Michael Rinde: "Future of the Stadtallendorfer Bundeswehr area: Hessen barracks remain indispensable", in: Oberhessische Presse from October 4, 2016
  14. Michael Rinde: "Hessen-Kaserne: Ministry sees no more need", in: Oberhessische Presse from May 16, 2017
  15. Michael Rinde: "Division Fast Forces The cooperation works 'smoothly'", in: Oberhessische Presse of January 8, 2016