Kurmainz barracks (Tauberbischofsheim)

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GermanyFlag of Germany (state) .svg Kurmainz barracks
Entrance of the Kurmainz barracks

Entrance of the Kurmainz barracks

country GermanyGermany Germany
today Laurentiusberg district
local community Coat of arms Tauberbischofsheim.svg Tauberbischofsheim
Coordinates : 49 ° 37 '  N , 9 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '18 "  N , 9 ° 40' 30"  E
Opened 1963
owner City of Tauberbischofsheim
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Reconnaissance Battalion 121 3rd / Artillery Reconnaissance Battalion 83 Driver Training Center
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The Kurmainz barracks (also Kurmainz barracks ) on the Laurentiusberg in Tauberbischofsheim was a Bundeswehr location in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg from 1963 to 2008 . After the purchase of the site by the city of Tauberbischofsheim in 2011 of being built through conversion of Lawrence Berg district with commercial space and living quarters.

location

The former barracks is located in the southeast of Tauberbischofsheim. In the north, the 43 hectare barracks area (with 6 hectares of traffic areas and 11 hectares of ammunition storage) is crossed by Landesstraße 578 , in the east (behind the 120 hectare military training area) by the Rödersteingraben, in the south by the Taubertalgraben and in the west by the federal highway 27 limited. The federal highway 81 runs about two kilometers southeast.

history

prehistory

Already during the First World War there were several barracks on the Tauberbischofsheimer Laurentiusberg when the place served as a prisoner of war camp and later until 1920 as a transit camp .

Kurmainz barracks

In 1963 Tauberbischofsheim was location of the army of the Bundeswehr from the start about 1,600 soldiers. At that time, the owner was the federal government.

In the summer of 2006, the Tauberbischofsheimer sports promotion group of the Bundeswehr , which mainly belonged to the national team atlethes of the fencing club at the Tauberbischofsheim Olympic base , was dissolved. From then on, the Mainz Sports Promotion Group took over their tasks.

On June 30, 2008, the last of the 1,000 or so soldiers left the Kurmainz barracks on the Laurentiusberg.

Conversion: Development of the Laurentiusberg district

After negotiating land with the Federal Real Estate Agency, the city ​​of Tauberbischofsheim took over the former barracks area with all the buildings on May 1, 2011. The conversion of the former Bundeswehr location started with the decision of the state of Baden-Württemberg to include the former barracks area in the “Stadtumbau-West” funding program at the request of the city of Tauberbischofsheim. The state approved a grant of 2 million euros. Since then, the development of the newly created Tauberbischofsheimer district Laurentiusberg, in which commercial and residential areas are being created, has been advancing.

Establishment of a nature reserve

The Brachenleite nature reserve near Tauberbischofsheim on parts of the former military training area (2016)

On the plateau areas of the former site training area of the Bundeswehr, located east of Tauberbischofsheim, was between the forest Mossy in the northwest and the forest areas Grünfelder fir and Lauswinkel the east and southeast with Regulation of the Regional Council of Stuttgart on 17 December 2014, with the fallow Leite in Tauberbischofsheim a 64, 4 hectare nature reserve designated.

Surname

Along with the Kurmainz barracks in Mainz, it is one of two Bundeswehr barracks named after the former Kurmainz . Tauberbischofsheim was once the official residence of the archbishopric officers of Kurmainz. As early as 1237, the city was given to Kurmainz as a fief by Emperor Friedrich II and remained there until 1803.

Others

The Jakobsweg Main-Taubertal runs along the barracks area on Laurentiusberg and through large parts of the former military training area (today's nature reserve).

Web links

Commons : Kurmainz-Kaserne  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f City of Tauberbischofsheim: History. Former Kurmainz barracks . Online at www.laurentiusberg.de. Retrieved May 21, 2017
  2. a b LEO-BW.de .: former Kurmainz barracks - living space . Online at www.leo-bw.de. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
  3. ^ Fränkische Nachrichten: 100 Years First World War The Tauberbischofsheim prisoner of war camp on the Laurentiusberg (part 1). Application for storage in the "Baden hinterland" . August 1, 2014. Online at www.fnweb.de. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  4. ^ Fränkische Nachrichten: 100 Years of the First World War The Tauberbischofsheim prisoner of war camp on the Laurentiusberg (part 2 and conclusion). There was meat three times a week . August 5, 2014. Online at www.fnweb.de. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  5. ↑ Funding for top-class sport in the Bundeswehr - basic information - , PDF, 13 pages, p. 8f. (Development / key data of the Bundeswehr's elite sport funding).
  6. City of Tauberbischofsheim: Conversion Tauberbischofsheim: Barracks purchase perfect  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website tauberbischofsheim.de. Retrieved May 21, 2017@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.tauberbischofsheim.de  
  7. State Institute for the Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg: Ordinance of the regional council of Stuttgart on the nature reserve "Brachenleite bei Tauberbischofsheim" . (PDF) December 17, 2014. Online at www.lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de. Retrieved May 21, 2017
  8. City of Tauberbischofsheim City history ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Online at www.tauberbischofsheim.de. Retrieved May 21, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tauberbischofsheim.de