Hollow barracks
 Hollow barracks
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| country | Germany | ||
| Names | Barracks on the hollow | ||
| local community | Idar-Oberstein | ||
| Coordinates : | 49 ° 42 ' N , 7 ° 20' E | ||
| Opened | 1922-1927 | ||
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| Fernleitungs-Betriebsgesellschaft mb H. Operations Administration South |
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| Old barracks names | |||
| 1938–1945 1945–1956 1957 – today |
Barracks On the Hohl Quartier Clappier Hohl-Kaserne |
 
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| Formerly stationed units | |||
| Chasseurs Alpins II./Festungs- Flakregiment 32 Luftwaffe Medical Squadron Artillery School 32nd Regiment d 'Artillery Observation Training Battery VP Transport Commandantur (POL) Idar-Oberstein Artillery Training Regiment Artillery Training Regiment 5 |
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Location of the hollow barracks in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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The hollow barracks was a barracks of the Bundeswehr in Idar-Oberstein , in which artillery units and staffs of associations were housed. The military use of parts of the barracks was given up in 2003. At the moment only the federally owned long- distance line operating company is located in the barracks .
Construction and usage history
After the First World War , the areas on the left bank of the Rhine were occupied by French troops. A mountain hunter company ( Chasseurs alpins ) was stationed in Idar-Oberstein , whose soldiers were initially housed in private quarters or non-military public buildings. In order to remedy the shortage of space that this caused, the French military administration decided to build a new barracks. A location was created in the Auf der Hohl district between 1922 and 1927, but it was no longer used by French troops. Instead, a school and a train of the Oldenburg State Police, which was responsible for the Principality of Birkenfeld , used the barracks buildings.
In 1938 the staff and a battery of the 2nd division of the fortress anti-aircraft regiment 32 as a unit of the air force were stationed in the hollow barracks. During the Second World War, there was an Air Force first- aid team in the barracks. Eventually around 160 Russian and French prisoners of war each were housed. In March 1945, American troops took Idar-Oberstein and ended the National Socialist rule in the city.
In 1945 French troops took over the barracks, which was now called Quartier Clappier, and until 1952 they housed course participants from the artillery school stationed in the Klotzberg barracks in Idar-Oberstein. After the artillery school withdrew, the 32nd Artillery Regiment remained in the barracks until 1956.
In 1957, the Bundeswehr moved into the hollow barracks with an observation battery.
From April 1, 1959 to April 1, 1961, the VP Transport Command (POL) Idar-Oberstein was housed in the hollow barracks.
The artillery training regiment set up on September 16, 1959 and its staff moved into the hollow barracks. It remained there until, with effect from January 1, 1981, as part of Army Structure 4, it merged with Artillery Regiment 5 of the 5th Panzer Division stationed in Diez to form Artillery Training Regiment 5 . The 5th Artillery Training Regiment took over the hollow barracks site and the tasks as a teaching unit, but also as the artillery unit of the 5th Panzer Division. It was disbanded on June 30, 2003.
Fernleitungs-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, which is responsible for the operation, maintenance, servicing and administration of the parts of the Central Europe Pipeline System (CEPS) and the North European Pipeline System (NEPS) located in Germany, has in the former Hohl -Basern housed their operational services.
conversion
In 2002 the Federal Property Office took over the parts of the barracks that were no longer used from mid-2003. At the auction of a part of the barracks, the minimum bid was only 20,000 euros.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lars Kleine: 75 years garrison town, Society for Artillery Studies Idar-Oberstein, page 1
- ↑ Lars Kleine: 75 years garrison town, Society for Artillery Science Idar-Oberstein, page 3
- ^ Location journal Idar-Oberstein 2015/16, p. 15 (PDF)
- ↑ a b Location database of the Bundeswehr in the Federal Republic of Germany as well as the training grounds used by the Bundeswehr abroad of the Bundeswehr Center for Military History and Social Sciences
- ↑ www.fbg.de
- ^ Location journal Idar-Oberstein 2015/16, p. 15 (PDF)
- ^ "The hollow barracks will be auctioned", in: Nahe newspaper of November 26, 2013, accessed on February 2, 2020