Kirchfeld barracks
 Kirchfeld barracks
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| country | Germany | ||
| status | Bundeswehr technical school | ||
| local community | Karlsruhe | ||
| Coordinates : | 49 ° 3 ' N , 8 ° 24' E | ||
| Old barracks names | |||
| until October 1964 October 1964 - October 2016 |
Telecommunications barracks General-Fahnert-Kaserne |
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| Formerly stationed units | |||
| Telecommunications Regiment 12, Telecommunications Battalion 384 |
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Location of the Kirchfeld barracks in Baden-Württemberg |
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The Kirchfeld barracks , until October 2016 General Fahnert barracks , is a barracks of the Bundeswehr in Karlsruhe . It was built from 1958 and named in 1964 after the general of the Luftnachrichtentruppe Friedrich Fahnert .
The barracks are located in the Neureut-Kirchfeld district of Karlsruhe , An der Trift.
history
In 1912 the lands on which the barracks were later built were acquired by the Baden Grand Ducal Civil List and so came into the possession of the Grand Duchy of Baden . From 1914 the area, which at that time belonged to the district of Teutschneureut , was used as a parade ground for the Karlsruhe garrison . After the First World War, Karlsruhe was in the demilitarized zone along the occupied Rhineland , so the parade ground was given up. In the following years, the land was used for agriculture, but yielded only little income. During the Nazi era , a parade ground was set up again in 1936, the year the Rhineland was occupied. In a small sub-area, the Schaffergilde settlement was established from 1931 onwards, a non-profit savings, loan and building cooperative that had set itself the goal of enabling low-income sections of the population to build affordable homes. Today's Kirchfeldsiedlung was built between 1948 and 1957 to accommodate refugees from the Second World War. It takes up large parts of the former parade ground.
The Kirchfeld barracks is located in the south corner of the former parade ground; the Hardtwald borders in the east . It is the first Luftwaffe barracks built after rearmament . After the laying of the foundation stone in June 1958, 19 buildings were built to accommodate 1,000 soldiers at a cost of DM 20 million. The area was loosely built; Team buildings are a maximum of three floors high. In view of the large amount of free space, a contemporary press report gave the barracks an "almost civilian face". Other buildings were built later, for example a dormitory for officers in 1982 and a sports hall in 1984. On December 9, 1959, the barracks were handed over to Telecommunications Department 121, which later became Telecommunications Regiment 12. Originally called the telecommunications barracks, it was named General-Fahnert-Kaserne on October 9, 1964 . The Telecommunications Regiment 12 was dissolved in 2002. With the dissolution of the telecommunications battalion 384, the last unit left the location on March 31, 2009, at which air traffic control units and the Federal Border Guard were temporarily stationed. After further renovations and renovations, the barracks will continue to be used by the Bundeswehr technical school.
Renaming of the barracks
In June 2015 it became known that the Baden-Württemberg State Command had initiated a procedure to rename the barracks name, since the Military History Research Office (MGFA) did not know that Fahnert's behavior was exemplary in the German-Soviet War In accordance with the applicable traditional guidelines was ". In addition, it is emphasized in the MGFA report that Fahnert had already been attested in a relevant official assessment of March 15, 1939, that he was "firmly and perfectly based on the National Socialist worldview". In June 2016, the Ministry of Defense approved the renaming application. As requested, the barracks officially received the new name Kirchfeld-Kaserne on October 21, 2016 , after the Kirchfeldsiedlung in Karlsruhe-Neureut. The location is expanded. The new Bundeswehr technical school is to be built there from the end of the year.
Web links
- "We will miss you", article on the dissolution of the 384 telecommunications battalion on luftwaffe.de
- Kirchfeld barracks in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert Karl: The Kirchfeldsiedlung. Chronicle of a district of Karlsruhe-Neureut 1928–2011. Info-Verlag, Karlsruhe 2012, ISBN 978-3-88190-666-1 , pp. 159 f, 533 f.
- ↑ Karl, Kirchfeldsiedlung , pp. 103-105, 534. Quotation p. 105.
- ^ Theo Westermann: Fahnert barracks gets a new name . In: Badische Latest Nachrichten , June 25, 2016, p. 23.
- ^ Theo Westermann: "Neighboring the Bundeswehr". General-Fahnert-Kaserne now officially renamed Kirchfeld-Kaserne . In: Badische Latest News, October 22, 2016, p. 25.
- ↑ General-Fahnert-Kaserne gets a new name . In: SWR Landesschau aktuell Baden-Württemberg , June 28, 2016