Mont Royal barracks
 Mont Royal barracks
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| country | Germany | ||
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 Traben-Trarbach
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| Coordinates : | 49 ° 58 ' N , 7 ° 7' E | ||
| owner | Federal Republic of Germany | ||
| Workforce | 400 | ||
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Location of the Mont Royal barracks in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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The Mont Royal barracks in Traben-Trarbach ( Rhineland-Palatinate ) was a property of the Bundeswehr , in which the Office for Defense Geophysics , later the Office for Geoinformation of the Bundeswehr , were housed and operated a data center in a bunker .
location
The barracks were on Mont Royal about a mile north of the city center. The Traben-Trarbach / Mont Royal airfield is 500 meters west of the property . About four kilometers to the south was the Wildstein barracks , also in the Traben-Trarbach area .
property
The 13 hectare Mont Royal barracks comprised two office buildings, a bunker, a gate guard, a helipad and an antenna field.
Protective construction
The bunker with five levels ("brine") and 5526 square meters of usable area is up to 25 meters deep and has a floor area of 50 by 50 meters.
history
The older office building with 1673 square meters of usable space was built in 1933, the newer office building with 2686 square meters of usable space in 1975. In the period from 1975 to 1979, the Office for Defense Geophysics moved from the air force barracks in Cologne to the barracks. On October 1, 2003, the Office for Defense Geophysics was integrated into the Office for Geoinformation of the Bundeswehr. In 2007 the closure of the property was announced. On April 17, 2013, the handover from the Bundeswehr to the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks took place .
In 2013, the Dutchman Herman Johann Xennt, former owner of CyberBunker , bought the site for 450,000 euros. In September 2019, Xennt was arrested, the premises searched and confiscated by the police. The Wall Street Market and other Darknet websites are said to have been operated from there.
Departments
The following departments were stationed in the barracks:
- Office for Geoinformation of the Bundeswehr (2003–2012; relocation to Euskirchen )
- Defense Geophysics Office (1975-2003; relocated from Cologne )
- Fixed telecommunications center of the Bundeswehr 431/201 (April 1, 1987 - December 31, 1994)
- Air Force Medical Corps 1 Department of Defense Geophysics (December 1, 1971 - March 31, 2002)
- Air Force Security Squadron 51100 ( unit ) (October 1, 1982 - September 30, 2006)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Max Heber and Bernhard Riedmann: Cyberbunker: Insight into the darkest corner of the Internet. In: Spiegel Online . May 15, 2020, accessed May 23, 2020 .
- ↑ All 46 employees can stay in the city. Trierischer Volksfreund , September 1, 2005, accessed on May 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Wildstein House - 1913 until today. Herbert Divossen, accessed on May 23, 2020 .
- ^ A b Lars Wiederhold: Bundeswehr gives up data center in Traben-Trarbach. Immobilien Zeitung , October 10, 2012, accessed on May 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Winfried Simon: Computer center instead of geo-office? Trierischer Volksfreund , May 7, 2013, accessed on May 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Search term "Traben-Trarbach". In: Bundeswehr location database . www.zmsbw.de, accessed on May 23, 2020 .