Barracks Eilenburg
| Barracks Eilenburg | ||||||||||||||
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| Built | 1913–1916, extensions 1934/1935 | |||||||||||||
| owner |
German Army (1913–1919) Reichswehr (1919/1920 and 1934/1935) Wehrmacht (1935–1945) US Army (1945) Red Army / Soviet Army (1945–1958) National People's Army (1958–1990) Bundeswehr (1990–1991) |
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| Old barracks names | ||||||||||||||
| 1934-1945 | Flanders barracks | |||||||||||||
| Formerly stationed units | ||||||||||||||
| 1913-1918 | III. Battalion of the 4th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 72 | |||||||||||||
| 1916-1918 | Replacement battalion of the Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 72 | |||||||||||||
| 1919-1920 | VI. Department of the Landesjägerkorp | |||||||||||||
| 1920 | II. Battalion of the 31st Jägerregiment | |||||||||||||
| 1935-1938 | 2nd Battalion of the 32nd Infantry Regiment | |||||||||||||
| 1938-1945 | Replacement division of the 11th Infantry Regiment | |||||||||||||
| 1940-1945 | Medical replacement and training department 4 | |||||||||||||
| 1945 | Medical replacement and training department 8 | |||||||||||||
| ? –1958 | 350th Artillery Regiment of the Soviet Army | |||||||||||||
| 1961-1969 | (NCO) training regiment 7 | |||||||||||||
| 1969-1979 | NCO School II "Kurt Bennewitz" | |||||||||||||
| 1979-1990 | Battalion Radio Electronic Combat 3 | |||||||||||||
| 1981-1984 | Radio Reconnaissance Battalion 3 | |||||||||||||
| 1981-1984 | Radio Reconnaissance Battalion 5 | |||||||||||||
| 1981-1984 | Special Reconnaissance Company 3 | |||||||||||||
| 1981-1984 | Special Reconnaissance Company 5 | |||||||||||||
| 1984-1990 | Projectile Department 3 "Georg Schwarz" | |||||||||||||
The Eilenburg barracks was a military facility in the city of Eilenburg (today Saxony ), which existed from 1913 with an interruption in the interwar period until 1991 and was used by various German armies as well as the US Army and the Soviet Army in the course of its history. Built as an infantry barracks, artillery , medical departments and electronic warfare units were later stationed here. It is located in the southeast of the Mitte district not far from the city train station and is bordered in the south by the Halle – Cottbus railway line .
history
Establishment and provisional dissolution
On June 25, 1913, the plans of the Prussian army administration, the Eilenburg as the location of the III. Battalion of the 4th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 72 , presented to the public. In the same year, the construction of a barracks in a previously undeveloped floodplain area of the Mulde near the train station began. The architect was the Eilenburg town builder Otto Lemke . During the First World War, the regiment moved from Eilenburg to the Western Front on August 9, 1914 and returned on December 23, 1918. The barracks were completed in 1916. Then the recruit depot of the replacement battalion of the Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 72 moved to Eilenburg, which means that around 3,200 soldiers were stationed at this location. In November 1918, the replacement battalion stationed here was disbanded. On May 26, 1919, the VI. Division of the Landesjägerkorpes (16th Reichswehr Brigade) into the barracks, which left the site on March 21, 1920. Shortly before the Eilenburg garrison was dissolved, the 2nd Battalion of the 31st Jägerregiment of the Reichswehr moved in on April 11, 1920 .
As a result of the military provisions of the Versailles Treaty after the First World War, which among other things required the reduction of the army to 100,000 soldiers and the abolition of general conscription , the Eilenburg garrison was dissolved on October 20, 1920. On October 31, 1920, the 11th, 14th and 15th Hundreds of the Security Police moved in and left the barracks on May 21, 1921. On January 22, 1922, the city bought most of the buildings for two million Reichsmarks. The buildings have been converted into emergency apartments since 1920, while parts of the city administration as well as the cadastral and customs office moved into the former barracks. Until their demolition in 1930, the poor, the sick, the injured and soldiers were quartered in the barracks.
Armament of the Wehrmacht
After the National Socialists came to power and the enormous rearmament efforts that had now started, the old barracks were reactivated when the army headquarters moved in in 1934. It was now called the Flanders Barracks . On July 2, 1935, the 2nd Battalion of the 32nd Infantry Regiment moved in , and Major Christoph Stengel became its commander . With the transfer of this unit to Brüx in the Sudetenland in 1938 , the replacement battalion of Infantry Regiment 11 from Leipzig moved into Eilenburg and in July 1940 the medical replacement and training department 4 moved into it. From 1940 the barracks were also used as a hospital and as accommodation for refugees. In 1945 the medical replacement department 8 moved in.
Post-war use and entry of the NVA
On April 17, 1945 the 3rd US Army reached Eilenburg; After several days of artillery battle, the city was captured by the Americans on April 25th. The US Army stayed until July 1, 1945. It was followed by the Soviet occupying forces . The 350th Artillery Regiment cleared the barracks in 1958.
With the establishment of the 7th Training Regiment in Military District III of the National People's Army (NVA), Eilenburg was determined to be its location next to Spremberg . The corresponding 757 soldiers were recruited from 61 existing units. The armament and other military equipment came from the Motorized Rifle Regiment 12 of the 6th Motorized Rifle Division . As a result of rearmament efforts against the backdrop of the Cold War , Eilenburg was determined by ministerial order on October 1, 1961 as the location for a NCO school. At that time the existing regiment comprised 146 officers, 188 NCOs, 86 soldiers and 1,010 NCO students. The renaming in NCO training regiment took place on March 8, 1962, which was restructured in the same year to NCO School (US) II . On March 1, 1971, this received the honorary name Kurt Bennewitz after the Eilenburg anti-fascist resistance fighter. In 1967 the NVA built a culture house ("NVA clubhouse") for the stationed soldiers, today's community center. In the autumn of 1979 the NCO school was moved to the town of Delitzsch, which was the first time since 1945 to become a garrison town again.
However, Eilenburg remained a military base. From October 27, 1979 until the dissolution of the NVA on October 2, 1990, the Bataillon Funkektronischer Kampf (BfeK) 3 was located there, and on March 1, 1988 it was given the honorary name Friedrich Adolf Sorge . Its task was the targeted radio interference and radio reconnaissance; among other things, the radio traffic of the US Air Force was intercepted and recorded. The workforce was about 500 men. It was the only NVA unit with an automated command system . From 1981 to 1984 the radio reconnaissance battalions (FuFuTAB) 3 and 5 as well as the special reconnaissance companies (SAK) 3 and 5 were also located here since November 5, 1984, the missile launcher department (GeWA) 3 " Georg Schwarz " with BM-21 and RM-70 . as well as the military district command Eilenburg and a fleet of vehicles. The on- site practice area was in the Muldenaue south of the city area. Remnants of it can still be discovered on the extensive grounds.
Final dissolution and civil re-use
After the barracks passed to the Bundeswehr , it was decided to give up the location. The notice of dissolution took place on March 27, 1991, after which the building complex passed into the hands of the Federal Property Office.
Today all the buildings of the former barracks are used for new civil purposes. For example, the former blocks I to VI house branch offices of the North Saxony District Office, the Office for Rural Development, the school at the Bürgergarten , the city library, the youth center VI and a school day care center. The district court of Eilenburg is now located in the former building of the news and security company and the medical point . Furthermore, the technical relief organization with a vehicle fleet and the building yard of the city of Eilenburg are located in former military buildings . Since the end of military use, the Eilenburg tax office, a Zweifelder sports hall and a sports field have been built as new buildings. The former parade ground now serves as a parking lot. The resulting street is named Dr.-Belian-Straße after the long-time mayor of Eilenburg, Alfred Belian . The house number allocation follows the old designations of blocks I to VI. The term former barracks is still common, but today the site is usually officially designated as the Dr.-Belian-Straße administrative center.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Manfred Wilde : The NCO School of the Army of the Bundeswehr in Delitzsch in Delitzscher Yearbook for History and Regional Studies 2011, publishing house “Heide-Druck”, Bad Düben
- ↑ a b c FALLE EB - youth center of the DRK Kreisverband Eilenburg eV: Zeitensprünge - The history of the barracks area in Eilenburg from 1913 to 2006
- ↑ BFEK-3 "Friedrich Adolf Sorge" Eilenburg (accessed on January 3, 2011)
- ↑ BFEK-3 in Kleines Blog-Lexikon (accessed on January 3, 2011)
- ^ Battalion Radio Electronic Combat 5 (BFEK-5) (accessed on January 3, 2011)
- ↑ List of associations, TT and facilities of the NVA on the website of the radio technical troops of the NVA (accessed on January 3, 2011)
- ↑ Cover names and remote dialing directory (accessed on January 3, 2011)
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '17.9 " N , 12 ° 38' 20.7" E