Kemmel barracks
The Kemmelkaserne was a barracks in Trier that was built in 1936/37 as part of the armament of the Wehrmacht . It was named after the village of Kemmel in Flanders , which was completely destroyed in the First World War , on the Kemmelberg ridge , which was heavily fought over at the Battle of Armentieres . It is located in the Trier-Kürenz district on the Petrisberg , as an extension of Sickingenstrasse. During the war , a prisoner of war camp , the STALAG XII D, was located next to the barracks from February 1941. The most famous inmate was the French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre . After the war it was used by the French army until it left in 1999. The barracks then became a conversion area .
history
The Artillery - Regiment 34 of the 72nd Infantry Division (Trier) was there from 1937 to 1945 in garrison . For his 35th birthday, June 21, 1940 was Jean-Paul Sartre as a soldier of the 70th artillery regiment in Lorraine captured and Trier on the Petri mountain in the main camp STALAG XIID, from August 1940 to March 1941, interned . He describes the relatively humane conditions in the Trier camp in "Matthieus Tagebuch". He also wrote his first play "Bariona or the Son of Thunder" in Trier. The area, fenced in with barbed wire , had two areas. In the first, French , Belgians and Dutch were interned in the former . From the summer of 1941, Russians joined them, which was divided with an electrified fence. While the situation in the French part was "pleasant", there was enough food thanks to the aid packages from the relatives of the soldiers. In the Russian camp, on the other hand, there was malnutrition and disease, especially since the camp was hopelessly overcrowded. The Russians were forbidden to use the medical facilities , the chapel and the library . Up until the camp was evacuated , in October 1944, the largest groups were: French, followed by Yugoslavs , Russians, Poles and Belgians. From 1943 onwards, Italians , British and Americans joined them.
After the war, the Kemmel barracks became the “Quartier Belvedère” (beautiful view). For over 40 years, used by the French army until 1998 and supplemented by the “André Genet” military hospital , French soldiers were a daily sight there. After the withdrawal of the French troops, the area was now available to the city of Trier for subsequent use and the planning for a science park and residential areas in connection with a state horticultural show in 2004 could be concretized on this area. The development company Petrisberg mbH (EGP mbH) was founded to implement these concepts. Campus II of the University of Trier with the departments geography , computer science and business informatics is located in the former military hospital . In the course of the conversion, a large part of the former barracks building was demolished, but the larger buildings were retained and converted into office and residential buildings. It was redesigned through additions, colored versions and other changes, but the original shape is still recognizable.
French units stationed
Long text | abbreviation | at the location | Others |
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90 ° battalion du Génie | 90 ° BG | November 16, 1945 to April 18, 1946 | Quartier Pétrisberg |
Groupe de Transports 529 - Reserve Générale | GT 529 | January 16, 1949 to November 1, 1951 | |
Groupe de Transports 500 du 2 ° Corps d'Armée | GT 500 | November 1, 1951 to March 1, 1960 | |
481 ° Groupement Anti aérien Léger | 481 ° GAAL | October 4, 1951 to February 23, 1953 | Belvédère district |
311 ° Compagnie du Train Amphibian | CTA 311 | February 1, 1957 to May 28, 1957 | |
Brigade Cynophiles | January 1, 1959 to December 31, 1960 | ||
51 ° Compagnie Médicale Divisionnaire | 51 ° CMD | August 16, 1960 to June 30, 1973 | |
1 ° Compagnie d'Eclairage de Brigade | CEB1 | January 1, 1970 to December 31, 1972 | |
81 ° Compagnie Médicale Divisionnaire | CMD 81 | July 1, 1973 to June 30, 1978 | |
403 ° Bataillon de Commandement et de Soutien | 403 ° BCS | February 6, 1974 to February 24, 1977 | |
Bureau Postal Frontière "P" | BPF / P | June 1, 1978 to June 30, 1994 | |
Company Anti Char | CAC / 1 | July 1, 1982 to December 31, 1992 | |
Commissariat de l'Armée de Terre Zône Nord adapté à la 1 ° Division Blindée | CATA 1 ° DB | September 4, 1985 to November 25, 1987 | |
Hôpital Complémentaire d'Armée André Genet | CHA André Genet | January 1, 1949 to July 1, 1963 | Hospital of Mercy |
Hôpital d'Evacuation Lourde 413 | HEL 413 | January 28, 1946 to May 28, 1947 | |
157 ° Compagnie Médicale | CM 157 | May 16, 1947 to February 28, 1947 | |
Hôpital d'Evacuation André Genet | HE André Genet | May 29, 1947 to July 1, 1963 | |
Hôpital des Armées André Genet | CHA André Genet | July 1, 1963 to June 30, 1992 | Army Hospital André Genet |
Maternity | CHA André Genet | July 1, 1963 to August 1, 1982 | |
Pharmacie de Cession | CHA André Genet | January 1, 1965 to June 30, 1992 | |
Dispensaire Familial | CHA André Genet | January 1, 1975 to June 30, 1992 | |
1st Battalion of the 7th Regiment de Tirailleurs Algériens | 7 ° RTA / 1 | November 20, 1947 to August 31, 1951 | Belvédère district |
481 ° Groupement Anti aérien Léger | 481 ° GAAL | October 4, 1951 to February 23, 1953 | |
Direction des Travaux du Génie de Trèves | October 10, 1951 to November 25, 1987 | ||
2nd Battalion of the 7th Regiment de Tirailleurs Algériens | 7 ° RTA / 2 | June 14, 1947 to August 30, 1951 | |
1 ° Regiment de Spahis Marocains | 1 ° RSM | September 15, 1951 to October 10, 1955 | |
Escadron Haffner (Instruction) from the 1st Regiment de Spahis Marocains | 1 ° RSM | September 15, 1951 to October 10, 1955 | |
3 ° Regiment de Cuirassiers | 3 ° CUIR | June 20, 1952 to December 31, 1955 | |
503 ° Battalion de Commandement et des Services | 503 ° BCS | January 1, 1952 | |
81 ° Battalion Médical | BM 81 | January 1, 1952 to December 31, 1959 | |
Groupe 3/68 Honest-John | HY 3/68 | January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1973 | |
68 ° Régiment d'Artillerie Lourde Divisionnaire | 68 ° RALD | August 16, 1960 to June 30, 1974 | |
1 ° Compagnie Légère de Réparation du Matériel | 1 ° CLRM | May 1, 1962 to July 1, 1968 | |
9 ° Régiment d'Artillerie de Marine | 9 ° RAMA | October 1, 1974 to December 31, 1992 | |
5 ° Section Mobile de Réparation du 1 ° | GRDB 5 ° SMR | July 1, 1978 | |
Compagnie Anti Char de la 1st Division Blindée | CAC / 1 ° DB | July 1, 1982 to October 3, 1991 | |
61 ° Régiment d'Artillerie | 61 ° RA | August 1, 1992 to May 31, 1999 | |
Bureau Opérations Instruction du 61 ° Régiment d'Artillerie | 61 ° RA / BO | August 1, 1992 to May 31, 1999 | |
Section réparation de la 7 ° Compagnie du 6 ° Regiment du Matériel | 6 ° RMAT | January 1, 1996 | |
Service du Génie des Cités Cadres Antenna Belvédaire | 13 ° RG | Frankenstrasse 4 Trier | |
Bureau Administratif Local | BAL | ||
51 ° Battalion Médical | BM 51 | ||
Center de Transmissions de la Garrison | CT |
literature
- Adolf Welter: Trier during the occupation 1918–1939. Petermännchen-Verlag der Trier Münzfreunde, Trier 1992, ISBN 3-923575-11-4 .
- Adolf Welter: Trier-Petrisberg 1940-1945, the prisoner-of-war camp Stalag XII D. Petermännchen-Verlag der Trier Münzfreunde, Trier 2007, ISBN 978-3-923575-26-8 .
- State Center for Civic Education Rhineland-Palatinate: POW camps 1939–1950 Captivity as a topic of memorial work. Mainz / Osthofen 2012, ISBN 978-3-89289-025-6 .
- Elisabeth Dühr, Frank G. Hirschmann, Christl Lehnert-Leven: Trier Garrison Book . City Museum Simeonstift Trier, Trier 2007, ISBN 978-3-930866-22-9 .
- Building Department of the City of Trier: The Petrisberg in Trier. From the Roman camp to the science park. 2nd Edition. Weyand, April 2004, ISBN 3-935281-29-3 .
- Andrea Springler: With Sartre in the German prisoner of war camp. - Mathieu's diary. A fragment. Bariona or The Son of Thunder. A Christmas game. Marius Perrin, Jean-Paul Sartre. Rowohlt, 1983, ISBN 3-499-15267-3 .
Web links
- Project planning company for the conversation EGP GmbH retrieved from petrisberg.de
- Report of an Italian prisoner of war in the STALAG XIID camp retrieved from granatieri.cuneo.it (in Italian)
- The prisoners of war from Petrisberg from Trierischer Volksfreund from February 13, 2007
- Urban development and conversion in Trier Evaluation report on conversion in Trier Update as of: 2006, see p.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The conquest of Kemmelberg retrieved from stahlgewitter.com
- ^ Soldiers behind barbed wire, Rathauszeitung from March 13, 2007.
- ^ Adolf Welter: Trier-Petrisberg 1940–1945, The prisoner-of-war camp Stalag XII D. Petermännchen-Verlag der Trier Münzfreunde, Trier 2007, ISBN 978-3-923575-26-8 .
- ↑ Half dead we arrived in the camp at the NS Documentation Center Rhineland-Palatinate, retrieved from ns-dokuzentrum-rlp.de
- ↑ Overview of French units stationed in Trier ( Memento from May 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 157 kB) Veterans Association of military personnel stationed in Germany (French).
Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 23.7 " N , 6 ° 40 ′ 8.9" E