Herzog Albrecht barracks
 Herzog Albrecht barracks
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| country | Germany | ||
| today | Park settlement | ||
| local community | Münsingen | ||
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 25 ' N , 9 ° 30' E | ||
| Opened | 1915/1962 | ||
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| 1914-1919 | New warehouse |
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125th Infantry Division 4th Mountain Division 600th Infantry Division Tank Battalion 303 Tank Battalion 304 Tank Artillery Battalion 285 |
  
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Location of the Herzog-Albrecht-Kaserne in Baden-Württemberg |
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The area of the Herzog-Albrecht-Kaserne in Münsingen was used for military purposes from 1915 to March 2004 with interruptions. In 2004 the barracks were demolished.
history
In 1915, the Württemberg War Ministry decided to build a second barrack camp for the military training area that had been set up 20 years earlier . The first warehouse is located in what is today the Münsingen manor district .
In 1916, 1,500 men moved into the "New Camp". After the First World War , the Swabian Alb Association opened the first youth hostel in Münsingen in 1929 .
In 1936, as part of the armament of the Wehrmacht, a special department (educational unit) of the Wehrmacht Army was housed on the site. Three years later, the 125th Infantry Division was formed in the camp along with other units . At the beginning of the 1940s, 2,200 soldiers and 150 horses were housed in Münsingen. At the end of 1943 the 4th Italian mountain division "Monte Rosa" of the Salo regime was set up , and in 1944 the 600th infantry division of the Vlasov Army was set up in Münsingen.
After the end of the war, the French occupying forces took over the old and new camps for a short time until around 1950 in 1945 and placed displaced persons, mainly from Poland, there.
New building
In 1962, the Federal Ministry of Defense decided to tear down the dilapidated barracks and build modern troop accommodation. The 303 tank battalion had moved to the Rommel barracks in Dornstadt at the beginning of the year . So only the 304 Panzer Battalion was there. The cost of the new building was around 30 million marks. On December 15, 1965, the New Camp was named Herzog-Albrecht-Kaserne .
1977–1978, the Bundeswehr indoor swimming pool was built across from the barracks at that time and is now owned by the City of Münsingen.
demolition
On December 20, 2000, the local daily newspaper Alb-Bote reported for the first time about the closure of the Herzog-Albrecht-Kaserne. It was only several months after the article was published that the Defense Ministry officially confirmed that the area would be abandoned by March 31, 2004.
The last military ceremony in the barracks took place on March 31, 2004 at the station. On this day, the remaining 30 soldiers took down the federal service flag for the last time. This ended the almost 90-year-old era of the Münsingen garrison.
In the same year, the city took over the 22 hectare site and had all buildings and halls demolished. More than 120 of the planned 190 new single and two-family houses are now there. In addition, an approx. 1800 m² playground was created. This new development area is now also called park settlement in the area.
Prominent recruits
Celebrities also served in the Herzog-Albrecht-Kaserne:
- Horst Köhler , Federal President
- Wolfgang Schneiderhan , General Inspector of the Bundeswehr
- Bernd Clüver , pop singer
- Uwe Schneider , soccer player
- Knut Kircher , Bundesliga - and FIFA - referee
- Torben Wosik , table tennis professional
- Florian König , TV presenter
- Olaf Malolepski , singer in the hit band Flippers
- Joachim Lenk , journalist and author
literature
- From the snowshoe company to the tank battalion, Wiedemann-Verlag, Münsingen 2004, ISBN 3-9805531-8-3
- Last roll call in Swabian Siberia, Wiedemann-Verlag, Münsingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9805531-9-3