Barracks on freedom
 On freedom
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| country | Germany | ||
| today | Residential and business district | ||
| local community | Schleswig | ||
| Coordinates : | 54 ° 31 ' N , 9 ° 35' E | ||
| Opened | 1933 to 1938 | ||
| owner | Private | ||
| Old barracks names | |||
| 1945-1953 | Caterham Barracks |
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| Formerly stationed units | |||
| Aviation Replacement Department 16 Panzer Grenadier Company 13 Engineer Battalion 620 Telecommunications Regiment 34 |
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Location of the freedom in Schleswig-Holstein |
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The barracks Auf der Freiheit was a military installation in the city of Schleswig . It was originally built from 1933 to 1937 on the Schleswiger Freiheit as a sea air base for the Wehrmacht and was used by the Bundeswehr from 1957 until 2004.
history
Already in 1604 citizens able to fight used the place as a practice area. During the Thirty Years' War , Lüneburg troops set up a star jump there. During the last waves of the plague (1628) and (1712) the dead were buried there or the place was used for executions with the gallows erected by the Danish military in 1684 . After the war against Denmark in 1866, Prussian troops used the area as a riding and military training area . Between 1881 and 1926 further leisure and sales buildings such as an outdoor swimming pool or a sports field were built there.
time of the nationalsocialism
After the seizure of power of the Nazis , the site was from the Reichswehr incorporated and the barracks on the freedom built, which will be completed 1938th An air base for sea pilots was created. The Flieger Ersatzabteilung 16 (Flea 16) moved into its first building as early as 1935. After the completion of the last construction phase, Field Marshal Hermann Göring visited the barracks in August 1938 .
Occupation and armed forces
The barracks were occupied by British troops after the war and renamed Caterham Barracks . Mostly Norwegian units used the barracks until 1953, which then stood empty for three years. From 1956, the Bundeswehr occupied the barracks with troops of various types such as the Panzergrenadierkompanie 13 or the Light Pioneer Equipment Company 761. In June 1956, the site administration was set up there. In the autumn of 1957 the maneuvers “South Wind” and “North Wind” took place here, with the pioneers building a pontoon bridge over the Schlei in 24 hours . From 1958 the Heavy Pioneer Battalion 718 (sPiBtl 718) was relocated from Cologne to the barracks and renamed the Heavy Pioneer Battalion 620 (sPiBtl 620) in 1971. During the snow disaster in 1978/79 , the unit provided considerable assistance. From 1957 until the relocation in 1986 the III. Department of the telecommunications regiment 34 (last name before relocation after several renaming) from here the Brekendorf radar station. In 2000 the BMVg decided to close the barracks. The unit, which had been renamed Pioneer Battalion 620 since 1981, was dissolved on September 30, 2003 and large parts of the newly established Special Pioneer Battalion 164 in Husum; the barracks were abandoned.