Lützow barracks (Schwanewede)

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GermanyFlag of Germany (state) .svg Lützow barracks
country Germany
status abandoned since 2015
local community Schwanewede
Coordinates : 53 ° 13 '  N , 8 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 13 '14 "  N , 8 ° 34' 38"  E
Opened 1956 to 1958
Formerly stationed units
See formerly stationed Bundeswehr units
Lützow barracks (Lower Saxony)
Lützow barracks

Location of the Lützow barracks in Lower Saxony

The Lutzow barracks was from 1958 to 2015 one of several locations of the German Bundeswehr in the Lower Saxon community Schwanewede , the north-north-west of Bremen is located. It is located in the eponymous core town of Schwanewede. The barracks are to be closed after the military use it ceased in 2015 and was temporarily used as emergency shelter for refugees from autumn 2015 to spring 2016 in the course of the refugee crisis . It has been empty since then.

The west adjoining the barracks training area is also being used by other army units in the region. Its use should take place in 2021 at the earliest.

Military use

From 1939 to 1945

In the era of National Socialism in early 1939 on the site of the later Lutzow barracks and later site training area by the Economic Research mbH started (Wifo), for the Navy of the German Wehrmacht , the Navy tank farm Farge to build. During the Second World War , further expansion was stopped in July 1941, as most of the naval units were relocated to the French coast after the occupation of France . From 1943 until shortly before the end of the war, the camp was used as accommodation for forced laborers in the Valentin submarine bunker that was under construction . Among other things, the SS housed concentration camp prisoners in the camp. In April 1945 the camp was cleared.

From 1956/58 to 2015

In 1956, construction of the barracks began on the eastern part of the site. In February 1958 the first units of the Bundeswehr were stationed. In 1966 the barracks was named after the Prussian Major General Ludwig Adolf Freiherr von Lützow (1782–1834). The name was given on November 18, 1966 by the commander of the 11th Panzer Grenadier Division , Major General Otto Uechtritz .

In 1967 a newly built officers' house was inaugurated on an area adjacent to the north-east of the barracks . From then on, it served the officers and civil servants at the Schwanewede (Lützow barracks) and Neuenkirchen ( Weser-Geest barracks in the then still independent neighboring community of Neuenkirchen, which was incorporated into the community of Schwanewede in 1974 and has since been part of Schwanewede).

During the Cold War until the very recent past, the Lützow barracks was primarily the location of Panzergrenadier units.

In the 2011 stationing concept of October 26, 2011 by Federal Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière ( CDU ), the Lützow barracks in Schwanewede was one of the locations that should be closed. The implementation planning for the stationing concept, which was adapted in 2013, then provided for the barracks to be closed in the third quarter of 2015 and was later set for the end of September 2015. Due to the short-term implementation of the subsequent use as an emergency shelter for refugees, the barracks was prematurely opened on 14/15. Abandoned by the Bundeswehr in September 2015 and handed over to the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA).

Formerly stationed Bundeswehr units

Further former locations in Schwanewede, location training area

The Bundeswehr service center in Schwanewede and some other location-based service and supply facilities, which are located to the north opposite the Lützow barracks, were also given up by the Bundeswehr in September 2015. Still in operation is u. a. nor the site support for the training area that is still being used. The Schwaneweder officer's home was closed at the end of 2014. The second former main location in the Schwanewede garrison , the nearby Weser-Geest barracks in the Neuenkirchen district, was given up in 2004 and has largely been used as a commercial area since then.

The on-site training area to the west of the Lützow barracks is currently (2015) still being used by Bundeswehr units from Garlstedt , around 10 kilometers away , in particular by the Bundeswehr logistics school located there . A final decision has not yet been made about the end of military use of the training area; As of the 2015 planning stage, the end of use should take place in 2017 at the earliest.

Civil use since 2015

Conversion of Lützow barracks in Schwanewede

As part of the implementation of the Bundeswehr's new stationing concept and the abandonment of the location, the municipality of Schwanewede initiated a conversion process for the civil re-use of the Lützow barracks in 2013 and, in cooperation with external planning offices, began to create an integrated urban development ( location) development concept (ISEK) for the barracks area. The total available area, over which the municipality has exercised municipal planning sovereignty since it was returned by the Bundeswehr and for which it also has an initial access option, borders almost immediately to the west of the center of Schwanewede and is embedded in the eastern part by residential areas and the forest school , a cooperative comprehensive school . It is therefore regarded as "ideal for further urban development of the village" and as a "key plot of internal development".

The total area of around 81.5  hectares , which has been owned by the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA) since it was abandoned by the Bundeswehr, consists of the following sub-areas:

  • the actual barracks area (67.1 ha)
  • the properties around the Bundeswehr service center (approx. 12.8 ha) opposite the barracks and north of the street "An der Kaserne"
  • the area of ​​the officers' quarters to the northeast of the barracks (1.6 ha)

Temporary use as refugee accommodation

Since 2013, the influx of refugees and migrants to Europe and especially to Germany has increased sharply, which led to a refugee crisis in Germany in 2015 . The high number of asylum seekers distributed among the individual federal states according to the Königstein key made the states increasingly faced with supply and accommodation problems. At the beginning of September 2015, the state of Lower Saxony decided to use the Lützow barracks in Schwanewede, which was about to be closed by the German armed forces, as emergency accommodation for around 1,000 refugees. For this purpose, the state requested the barracks from the Federal Real Estate Agency BImA by the end of May 2016.

The DRK district association Wesermünde was commissioned with the operation and care of the refugee accommodation . After the renovation and technical equipment of several accommodation buildings, the first refugees moved into the new emergency accommodation on September 14, 2015.

The ecumenical initiative for refugees and asylum seekers in Schwanewede set up a clothing store and a bicycle workshop and organized German courses. A vigilante group was founded in Schwanewede, supported by right-wing extremists from Bremen-Nord . The so-called citizen patrol also patrols the barracks area and its vicinity. Rumors of increased crime and rape by the residents of the barracks were spread via a Schwanewedener Facebook group. The police denied it.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schwaneweder barracks named after Lützow's Freikorps . In: Weser courier . November 19, 1966, p. 13 .
  2. ↑ New officers' home in Schwanewede ready . In: Weser courier . January 13, 1967, p. 13 .
  3. ↑ Stationing concept 2011 >> Realization planning: Closures in Lower Saxony. In: Bundeswehr website (www.bundeswehr.de). April 17, 2013, accessed December 25, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Gabriela Keller: Bundeswehr gives up barracks . In: The North German . September 16, 2015, p. 5 ( online [accessed December 25, 2015]).
  5. ↑ Gabriela Keller, Barbara Wenke, Julia Ladebeck: Schwanewede is preparing for the refugees . In: The North German . September 5, 2015, p. 11 ( online [accessed December 25, 2015]).
  6. ↑ Gabriela Keller: The first refugees have arrived . In: The North German . September 15, 2015, p. 5 ( online [accessed December 25, 2015]).
  7. ↑ Schwanewede has a vigilante group - against refugees ( memento from October 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), NDR, October 20, 2015