Barracks Neu Tramm
 New Tramm
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| country | Germany | ||
| local community | Dannenberg (Elbe) | ||
| Coordinates : | 53 ° 4 ' N , 11 ° 3' E | ||
| Opened | 1939 | ||
| owner | Private | ||
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| Telecommunication company 945 NCO School |
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Location of the Neu Tramm in Lower Saxony |
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The barracks New Tramm is a former barracks of the Bundeswehr in Lüchow-Dannenberg in Lower Saxony . Today the 180 hectare barracks is part of the Neu Tramm district of the city of Dannenberg .
location
The Neu Tramm barracks was about five kilometers south of the Dannenberg city center and one kilometer west of the B 248 not far from the village of Tramm . While the core of the barracks is in Neu Tramm itself, the southern part is in the area of the Breselenz district of the Jameln municipality . In the east of the barracks there is a war cemetery where six Soviet prisoners of war are buried.
history
Construction of barracks and production of cruise missiles
A hill to the west of the village of Tramm, which belonged to the then municipality of Schaafhausen , was chosen as the location for the construction of an air munitions plant . In the year 1938 by the site management Salzwedel confiscated grounds of the barracks began in 1939 with the construction. Polish prisoners of war were used for this purpose . From 1941 the stationing of air force units began.
The barracks were completed together with a siding to the Karwitz train station on the Uelzen – Dannenberg railway line in 1943 by Soviet and Italian prisoners of war. In the spring of 1944 with the installation of V 1 - cruise missiles started. From 1945 Reichenberg devices were also produced, but they were not used, but were confiscated after the barracks were handed over to US troops on April 23, 1945 without a fight .
Use between 1945 and 1994
The barracks was handed over to the British troops in May and was initially used as a factory site and refugee camp. In the 1950s, the Federal Border Police took over the barracks, which withdrew in 1974 and until 1990 had only housed smaller units as guests in the barracks. In 1967, the barracks were from the Air Force of the Armed Forces assumed that was stationed there by the year 1994th In addition to the air force's telecommunications sector B / telecommunications regiment 71, an army service was also stationed in the barracks (parts of telecommunications company 945, later reorganized as telecommunications company 1). In the period from January 1, 1990 to June 30, 1994, the barracks also hosted the 12th inspection of the Air Force NCOs . Your head of inspection, Lieutenant Colonel Joachim Weiß, was also the last barracks commandant of the Neu Tramm barracks. Both telecommunication units used the reconnaissance tower near Thurau .
Use after 1994
Today the barracks has been privatized and is rented by the owner to the state of Lower Saxony for a short time. The country uses the barracks as accommodation for police departments as part of the operations for the Castor transports . The city of Dannenberg and the municipality of Jameln founded a planning association in 2001, in particular to develop tourist re-uses for the barracks. A historical fire brigade museum is housed in a non-fenced building on the western edge of the barracks .
During the “flood of the century” on the Elbe and Jeetzel in 2006, the barracks served as a kitchen base for the catering service . The German Red Cross , Technical Relief Organization , the Federal Armed Forces and the fire brigade supplied the over 5,000 emergency services and helpers with food and beverages from here.
architecture
The core of the barracks was laid out in the form of a round village in order to camouflage it against possible air attacks . This type of village is widespread in the Hanoverian Wendland . The individual buildings were also built in the style of the typical architecture. In the Rundling itself there are six buildings (the former crew quarters), the size and shape of which are based on those of the Lower Saxony hall houses . The houses are furnished with details of half-timbered houses and have the so-called turning club , a decoration of the gable tops that is widespread on farmhouses in Wendland. Other buildings, such as the officers' mess , platform or administration buildings, were also provided with timber-framed or wooden decorative elements.
The barracks survived an air raid on the neighboring Dannenberg on February 22, 1945 unscathed.
literature
- Jochen Tarrach: A breath of 1000 years. Köhring-Verlag, Lüchow 1988, ISBN 3-926322-07-1 .