Klotzberg barracks
 Klotzberg barracks
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| country | Germany | ||
| local community | Idar-Oberstein | ||
| Coordinates : | 49 ° 42 ' N , 7 ° 19' E | ||
| Opened | 1937-1938 | ||
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Artillery Training Battalion 345 BWI Informationstechnik GmbH Idar-Oberstein |
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| 1938–1945 1945–1956 1956 – today |
On Klotz Quartier Jeanne d'Arc Klotzberg barracks |
 
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| Infantry regiment 107 sanitary unit Ecole d'application d'artillery (Artillery School) 32nd d 'artillery artillery training battery 405 artillery training battery 406 artillery instruction battalion artillery school Artilleriespezialzug 5 / I Artilleriespezialzug 5 / II training workshop army Idar-Oberstein observation artillery instruction battalion 51 observation battalion 53 observation instruction battalion 5 observation instruction battalion 53 observation artillery instruction battalion 51 observation teaching battery 373 observation tank artillery instruction battalion 51 driving school group Idar-Oberstein field artillery instruction battalion 310 field artillery instruction battalion 51 inspection language training officer candidate Instandsetzungszug drone 4./Instandsetzungsbataillon 5 logistics center of the Armed forces - logistic control unit 7 parts Idar-Oberstein material Tested Rupp II / 2 medium repair company 301 Musikkorps IV B officer candidate battalion Idar-Oberstein tanks artillery instruction battalion 51 Checks Rupp drone 1 . / Repair Battalion 5 Missile Artillery Training Battalion 52 Radar Training Battery 5 Special Pioneer Staff 4/1 Topography Battery 900 Troop School Artillery Liaison Command VI. Pipeline Division 2nd / Missile Artillery Battalion 132 |
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Location of the Klotzberg barracks in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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The Klotzberg barracks is a barracks of the Bundeswehr in Idar-Oberstein , where the artillery school was founded in 1956 . The main user today is the Artillery Training Battalion 345 .
Construction and usage history
With the occupation of the Rhineland by the Wehrmacht , the decision was made to comprehensively expand Idar-Oberstein as a garrison town. The staff of the 34th Infantry Division, an infantry regiment, a division of an artillery regiment and an anti-aircraft division were to be stationed here. In addition to the barracks on the Klotzberg, the hollow barracks were built for this purpose. Construction began in January 1937. On September 23, 1938, the barracks were handed over to the 107th Infantry Regiment. The barracks had not yet been completed at that time. The 107th Infantry Regiment left the site at the beginning of the Second World War and various replacement troops moved into the barracks.
Idar-Oberstein was liberated by US troops on March 20, 1945. In July 1945, French troops took over the Klotzberg barracks and set up an artillery school, the Ecole d'Application d'Artillerie, in what is now the Quartier Jeanne d'Arc . In 1952 the artillery school was moved to Mourmelon in France. The French 32nd Regiment d'Artillerie remained in the Klotzberg and the Hohl barracks.
At the beginning of April 1956, the first soldiers of the Bundeswehr moved to the Klotzberg barracks, which were still occupied by French troops. On June 29, 1956, the barracks were completely handed over to the Bundeswehr.
From April 3, 1956, the artillery training battalion was set up in the Klotzberg barracks. It was renamed to Panzerartillerielehrbataillon 51 on February 1, 1959. In November 1965 the unit was named Field Artillery Teaching Battalion 51. On April 1, 1993, it merged with the Observation Teaching Battalion 53 to form the Observation Artillery Teaching Battalion 51. In 1997, the name was changed to the Observation Artillery Teaching Battalion 51. This battalion was finally disbanded on March 31, 2003.
The artillery troop school was formed with advance personnel from April 26, 1956 and was set up on June 29, 1956. On April 1, 1957, it was renamed the Artillery School and began operations with teaching groups A and B in the Klotzberg barracks. On July 30, 1959, the site was reorganized: teaching group A was renamed teaching group B and teaching group B was renamed teaching group C. On April 1, 1961, teaching group D was set up in the Klotzberg barracks. On October 1, 1964, teaching group A was reorganized at the site, but it was relocated to the Rilchenberg barracks in 1967 and finally dissolved in 1969. In June 1967 the staff of the artillery school moved from the Klotzberg to the Rilchenberg barracks . Teaching group B was dissolved on October 1, 1981 and the artillery rocket school, which had previously been based in the Selfkant barracks, was integrated as a new teaching group B, but was stationed in the Rilchenberg barracks until it was dissolved on September 30, 2007. Teaching group C remained in the Klotzberg barracks until it was dissolved on December 31, 1994. Teaching group A ended its activity on September 30, 2007.
On July 4, 1956, the music corps IV B was set up in the Klotzberg barracks and moved to the Gneisenau barracks in Koblenz in the same year. On March 16, 1959, it was renamed Army Music Corps 5 there.
The topography battery 900 was set up on September 25, 1957 in the Klotzberg barracks. On September 4, 1967, it was renamed Topography Battery 700 and moved to the Rilchenberg Barracks Idar-Oberstein.
On March 16, 1959, the observation battery, which had previously been stationed in the hollow barracks in Idar-Oberstein, was formed into the observation battery 373, which was now housed in the Klotzberg barracks and was subordinate to the artillery school. On October 1, 1966, this battery was reclassified and the radar teaching battery 5 and the acoustic teaching battery 5 were formed. While the acoustic measuring battery was stationed in the Rilchenberg barracks from the start, the radar teaching battery 5 remained in the Klotzberg barracks until August 1967 and then also moved to the Rilchenberg barracks. On April 2, 1970, both batteries were disbanded and incorporated into the observation training battalion 5, which was newly established on the same day and moved into the Klotzberg barracks. On July 1, 1979, this battalion was renamed Observation Battalion 53 and finally in 1980 Observation Training Battalion 53. On April 1, 1993, the battalion merged with the field artillery teaching battalion 51 to form the new observation artillery teaching battalion 51, still based in the Klotzberg barracks. 1997 followed another renaming to the observation tank artillery training battalion 51. This unit was decommissioned on March 31, 2003.
From 1 April 1959, the artillery training battery was placed 405 in the Klotzberg barracks and remained here until their relocation in 1960 after Kusel in the local site . The artillery training battery 406, which was also built in the Klotzberg barracks from April 1, 1959, moved in 1960 to the Wilhelmswald camp of the Baumholder military training area.
Also on April 1, 1959, the field artillery training battalion 310 was set up in the Klotzberg barracks. It remained here until it was moved to Kusel in the Unteroffizier-Krüger barracks in October 1965.
In 1959, the middle repair company 301 was set up in the Klotzberg barracks. In 1965 the company was relocated to Kusel in the Unteroffizier-Krüger barracks and renamed there on October 16, 1966 as 2nd / mixed repair battalion 320.
In the 1960s, the Artillery Special Train 5 of the 5th Panzer Division was set up in the Klotzberg barracks from parts of the Field Artillery Training Battalion 51. This unit was able to fire US nuclear ammunition as part of the Nuclear Participation . With the formation of another artillery special train (5 / I) of the 5th Panzer Division in the Spilburg barracks in Wetzlar, it was given the name Artillery Special Train 5 / II. Her service ended on June 16, 1992.
The facility, which was created as a training workshop in 1961 and renamed the Heer Idar-Oberstein training workshop on March 1, 1968, was housed in the Klotzberg barracks until it ceased operations on March 31, 1997.
From April 1, 1961, Liaison Command VI was also located. Pipeline division until its dissolution on October 1, 2009 in the Klotzberg barracks.
In the 1980s, the Klotzberg barracks housed the drone repair train of the 4th / 5th maintenance battalion and the drone test team of the 1st / 5th maintenance battalion.
From January 1, 1986 to March 31, 1994, the Klotzberg barracks housed the Idar-Oberstein driving school group.
After the end of the Cold War , the rocket artillery battalion 52 stationed in the Steubenkaserne Gießen was renamed the rocket artillery teaching battalion 52 and moved to the Klotzberg barracks. Relocated to the Hochwald barracks in Hermeskeil in October 1996 , it was decommissioned in 2007.
Between 1997 and 2003 the special pioneer staff 4/1 was in the Klotzberg barracks.
The language training inspection for officer candidates was housed in the Klotzberg barracks from April 1, 2004 to June 30, 2015. In July 2006, the Idar-Oberstein Officer Candidate Battalion was set up, subordinate to the Artillery School and disbanded on December 12, 2013.
Parts of the logistic control center 7 of the logistics center of the Bundeswehr were located in the Klotzberg barracks Idar-Oberstein from July 1, 2010 to 2012. The material testing team II / 2 was in the barracks from July 1, 2012 to March 31, 2019.
From April 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014 the 2./Raketenartilleriebataillon 132 was housed in the Klotzberg barracks.
The Artillery Training Battalion 345 has been stationed in the Klotzberg barracks since January 1, 2014 . BWI Informationstechnik Idar-Oberstein has been supporting the units at the site since August 1st, 2009. In addition, the barracks now house the equipment for the training system for the artillery shooting simulator (since July 1, 2016), the equipment for the training system for the Marder armored personnel carrier (since October 1, 2018) and the Idar-Oberstein material testing team (since April 1, 2018).
The reserve association -Idar-Oberstein has been represented in the Klotzberg barracks since August 1st, 2009.
From July 1, 1972 to June 30, 1997, the medical area 41/6 (with equipment), the dental station of the Territorial Army 426 Idar-Oberstein 2 from July 1, 1973 to March 31, 1981 and the dentist group 406 / 2 from April 1, 1981 to December 31, 1998.
As part of the implementation planning for the stationing concept 2011 , the Klotzberg barracks should be closed in the second quarter of 2017. In February 2017, the closing date was given as “until 2027”. The stationed departments should move to the Rilchenberg barracks in Idar-Oberstein. On August 1, 2019, the ministry announced that it would not give up the barracks after all, due to changes in the security policy framework and an increase in personnel in the Bundeswehr.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lars Kleine: 75 years garrison town, Society for Artillery Studies Idar-Oberstein, page 1
- ↑ a b c location journal Idar-Oberstein 2015/16, p. 14 ff. (PDF)
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t location database of the Bundeswehr in the Federal Republic of Germany as well as the training grounds used by the Bundeswehr abroad of the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr
- ^ Gesellschaft für Artilleriekunde e. V. (Ed.) / Otmar Henkel: Overview of the history in front of the observation battalion 2
- ↑ Hinrichs / Bollinger: Chronicle of the end of the atomic deployment and training order Artillery Teaching Regiment 5 - June 16, 1992, Idar-Oberstein, June 1992
- ↑ Information on realignment - information package for implementation planning. June 12, 2012, accessed March 15, 2020 .
- ↑ "Idar-Oberstein: Klotzbergkaserne will be closed in 2027", in: Nahe-Zeitung (online) from February 9, 2017, accessed on March 14, 2020
- ↑ Space for the trend reversals. In: BMVg. August 1, 2019, accessed March 15, 2020 .