Lützow barracks (Aachen)
 Lützow barracks
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Lützow barracks |
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| country | Germany | ||
| local community | Aachen | ||
| Coordinates : | 50 ° 46 ' N , 6 ° 9' E | ||
| Opened | 1939 | ||
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Location of the Lützow barracks in North Rhine-Westphalia |
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The Lützow barracks is one of three barracks in the city of Aachen ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). It houses part of the Land Systems Engineering Training Center (entsZTLS). The other parts of the ÜbZTLS are stationed in the Dr. Leo Löwenstein barracks , the Theodor-Körner barracks and the Donnerberg barracks in Eschweiler .
The Lützow barracks is located in the Aachen-Forst district on Trierer Strasse near the Aachen- Brand junction of the A 44 . The next train station is Aachen-Rothe Erde .
The barracks, which was completed in 1939 on the former parade ground on Trierer Strasse in Krummerück as part of the remilitarization of the Rhineland , was named after the leader of the former volunteer hunter corps, Major - later Prussian Major General - Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow (1782-1834), who through his Lützow Freikorps in 1813 became a symbol of the German will for freedom (wars of liberation against Napoleon I). Many important men came together in the "Lützow Freikorps", among them the poet Theodor Körner and the "gymnastics father" Jahn.
Behind the barracks entrance, a memorial stone and a splendid copper beech still commemorate the patron saint.
On April 23, 1939, the regimental staff and the 1st Battalion, 78th Infantry Regiment, moved into the barracks. This regiment fought during World War II in the east as part of the 26th Infantry Division; In 1944 it was used with this division in the Battle of the Bulge - also in the Battle of BASTOGNE.
During the Second World War, the Lützow barracks were occupied by replacement troops, and at times also by army troops. After Aachen was captured by the First US Army (Aachen surrendered on October 21, 1944), the barracks became emergency accommodation for the bombed-out residents of Aachen and an American internment camp ("Refugee Camp"). Then it served briefly as accommodation for American and English occupation troops.
In May 1946 the Belgian 8th Artillery Battalion (later 23rd Artillery Battalion) and the Belgian 6th Artillery Battalion (later 20th Artillery Battalion) took over the barracks. The Belgian occupation troops gave the facility the name "TABORA-KAZERNE" in memory of the place Tabora in the former German East Africa (Tanzania), where they had stood during the First World War fighting against German troops of General von Lettow-Vorbeck.
The Belgian stationing forces cleared the barracks on July 15, 1961; only the Belgian telecommunications center remained until 1978.
After the barracks had been renovated, units of the German armed forces moved in at the beginning of January 1962. They included teaching group C of the technical troop school (Army), Sonthofen, and the cadre of the supply battalion (guided missile) 360.
Teaching group C was renamed to teaching group D in June 1964. On October 1, 1968, she left the military school, now called the Technical Troop School III, and moved to the Donnerberg camp on January 4, 1965 , where she formed the B staff of the rocket school (Army).
On July 1, 1964, the Technical Troop School III. bit by bit from its previous location in Sonthofen to Aachen and partly moved into the Lützow barracks.
The modern technical infrastructure and the “Berlin” sports facility in the north of the barracks were handed over to the troops and put into use at the end of the 1980s.
Large parts of the original accommodation and staff buildings are now under monument (ensemble) protection and are being extensively renovated. Currently (December 2015) a so-called expansion concept is being drawn up for further planning, as the investment requirement is likely to be well over € 25 million.
After several structural reforms, the barracks now houses the following departments:
- Commander of the Training Center for Land Systems Technology (AuszTLS), at the same time general of the army logistics troops
- Site oldest Aachen (StOÄ AC)
- AnbZTLS rod
- AnbZTLS area support
- AnbZTLS area technology logistics
- AnbZTLS teaching and training
- AnbZTLS teaching group B with V., VI. and VII inspection
- Army training workshop
- Parts of the Bundeswehr Service Center Aachen (BwDLZ AC)
- Catholic military rectory in Aachen
- Careers advice office Aachen