Hochstaufen barracks
 Hochstaufen barracks
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View from Hochstaufen to the Hochstaufen barracks (2019) |
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| country | Germany | ||
| local community | Bad Reichenhall | ||
| Coordinates : | 47 ° 43 ' N , 12 ° 52' E | ||
| Opened | 1934 | ||
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Mountain Hunter Brigade 23 Mountain Hunter Battalion 231 Operation and training center for pack animals 230 |
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1966-2012 -2012 |
Mackensen barracks Ritter von Tutschek barracks General Konrad barracks Artillery barracks |
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| Formerly stationed units | |||
| Mountain Infantry Regiment 100 Mountain Artillery Battalion 235 |
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Location of the Hochstaufen barracks in Bavaria |
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The Hochstaufen barracks is a Bundeswehr location in Bad Reichenhall, Upper Bavaria . The barracks were built from autumn 1934 and received their current name on August 1, 2012.
history
As part of the upgrade of the Armed Forces in the era of National Socialism Bad Reichenhall was from 1934 garrison town . In the then independent western neighboring community of Karlstein , the new barracks was built, which, as planned from the beginning, was incorporated into the city of Bad Reichenhall after a government resolution "with effect from July 1, 1937" and remains structurally almost unchanged to this day. In 1939 the northern part of the barracks was the location of the III. Battalion of the Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 100 with regimental staff and 16th (anti-tank) company ( Mackensen barracks ). In addition, the I. Department of the Mountain Artillery Regiment 79 and a medical team were housed in the southern part of the Bad Reichenhall barracks ( Ritter von Tutschek barracks ).
During the bombing of April 25, 1945 , the barracks and the numerous hospitals installed there did not suffer any significant damage. After the end of the Second World War , the Americans set up a camp for displaced persons in the barracks .
The access road to the barracks was initially called Col di Lana Street and was intended to commemorate the battles of the mountain troops in the First World War on Col di Lana in the Dolomites . After the end of the Second World War, several streets in Bad Reichenhall were renamed, today the street from the confluence with Thumseestraße near Kirchberg-Schlössl to the street in the Nonner Oberland is called Nonner Straße .
On February 22, 1958, the first mountain artillery unit moved back into the barracks, and Bad Reichenhall has been a Bundeswehr base ever since.
On June 13, 1966, the southern part of the barracks was named after the former general of the mountain troops Rudolf Konrad General-Konrad-Kaserne . Due to Konrads u. a. However, voices were repeatedly heard from partisan persecution and anti - Semitism in the Wehrmacht , calling for the barracks to be renamed. On August 1, 2012, the Federal Minister of Defense Thomas de Maizière announced during a troop visit to Reichenhall that the General Konrad and artillery barracks, which are structurally a single unit, are now called "Hochstaufen barracks". In a festive ceremony in the presence of the Defense Minister on September 17, 2012, the new inscription was affixed to the southern barracks gate. This name is intended to emphasize the relationship between the mountain hunters and Bad Reichenhall and the mountains. The Hochstaufen is the highest peak of Bad Reichenhall's local mountain, the foothills of which extend into the direct vicinity of the barracks.
Bundeswehr agencies
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Gebirgsjägerbrigade 23 (GebJgBrig 23)
- Brigade staff and headquarters / telecommunications company
- Operation and training center for pack animals 230 (training / training center TrgTWes 230)
- Mountain Infantry Battalion 231 (GebJgBtl 231)
- 2nd / Mountain Supply Battalion 8 (GebVersBtl 8)
- Sanitary supply center Bad Reichenhall (SanVersZ)
- First aid team in Bad Reichenhall (SanStff Eins)
- Bundeswehr Service Center Bad Reichenhall
- other small offices
- former associations
- Mountain Telecommunications Battalion 210 (GebFmBtl 210), disbanded in 2014
- Mountain Artillery Battalion 235 (GebArtBtl 235), disbanded in 1993
- Mountain Supply Battalion 236, disbanded in 1973
- Mountain restoration company 230, dissolved in 1981
- Mountain Supply Company 230, dissolved in 1981
- Repair training company 5/8 (in peacetime to Mountain Repair Battalion 8)
- Mountain Supply Company 230, reclassified to Mountain Supply Company
Facilities
The on-site practice area is located in Kirchholz and is about three kilometers from the site. The on-site shooting range is located in the Nesselgraben ( Thumsee district ), the "small mountain practice area" on the Reiter Alm . The shooting range and mountain training area are also used by the soldiers of GebJgBtl 232 from the Jägerkaserne in Bischofswiesen . Numerous other associations of the Federal Armed Forces and allied states use the opportunity of training in high alpine terrain on the Reiter Alm , especially in winter .
literature
- Fritz Hofmann : The history of the Bad Reichenhall garrison , Bad Reichenhall 1983
- Fritz Hofmann: The terrible years of Bad Reichenhall , wdv-Verlag Mitterfelden
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Lang: Street names as a mirror of time in the Heimatblätter , supplement to the Reichenhaller Tagblatt from October 28, 2006
- ↑ Bad Reichenhall: Renaming of the "General Konrad barracks" and the "Artillery barracks" to "Hochstaufen barracks". Press release from July 31, 2012