Lettow Vorbeck Barracks (Hamburg)

Lettow-Vorbeck barracks
Parts of the system after the conversion has started
country	Germany
Reuse	Residential area Jenfelder Au
local community	Hamburg
Coordinates :	53 ° 35 '  N , 10 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '50 "  N , 10 ° 7' 40"  E
Opened	1934
Stationed troops
Parts accommodation area HSU-HH
Old barracks names
1945-1959	St Patricks Barracks, St Andrews Barracks
Formerly stationed units
before 1999: III./ Air Force Training Regiment 1 parts of the 6th Panzer Grenadier Division before 1959: parts of the British Rhine Army before 1945: 69th Infantry Regiment
Location of the Lettow-Vorbeck-Kaserne in Hamburg

The Lettow-Vorbeck-Kaserne was a barracks complex in Hamburg-Jenfeld , which was used by the military from 1934 to 1999. A large part of the site is to be built with residential houses from 2015.

history

As part of the armament of the Wehrmacht , a total of 35  hectares of land in Hamburg-Jenfeld was developed for military use. From 1934 barracks and a public street, today's Wilsonstraße, were built here . The barracks on the east side of the street were the first to be completed. The naming of the barracks and the street, as well as the architectural decorations used in the form of reliefs and monuments, were based on the military history of the former German colonies . The western barracks bore the name Lettow-Vorbeck-Kaserne (after Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck ), the eastern one the name Estorff-Kaserne (after Ludwig von Estorff ) and the separating street was temporarily named Tangastraße (after the battle of Tanga ).

During the occupation by the British Army of the Rhine after World War II , the Estorff barracks were known as St Patrick's Barracks and the Lettow-Vorbeck barracks as St Andrew's Barracks .

Name plate on the north guard on Wilsonstrasse

The Bundeswehr took over the site in 1959 and 1960. It was merged into one barracks in 1973/1974 under the name Lettow-Vorbeck-Kaserne , the public part of the road between the buildings became part of the military site. During the use by the German armed forces, the facility was expanded in the south to include vehicle hangars and an extensive repair area .

At the time of the change in the GDR , parts of the III stationed here were Battalions of the 1st Air Force Training Regiment including the battalion staff relocated to the Eggerstedt barracks in Pinneberg, which was vacant at the time, to quarter refugees from the GDR. For this purpose, the company buildings north of the parade ground were temporarily separated by construction fences and could only be reached through the north-western gate. The military area of ​​the barracks could only be entered through the southeast gate.

In the course of the downsizing of the Bundeswehr, the last units left the barracks in 1999, and in 2005 it was finally closed.

Rescue helicopter on the old parade ground

Formerly stationed units of the Bundeswehr	Period	annotation
III./ Air Force Training Regiment 1	1959-1991
Repair Battalion 6	1959-2005
Supply Battalion 176	1959-1972
Supply company 170	1972-1986	renamed 4./InstBtl 6 (see above)
Field Replacement Battalion 167	1969-1981	renamed to ... (see below)
Field Replacement Battalion 63	1981-1993
Panzerbataillon 613 (equipment unit)	1983-1991
Air Force First Aid Squadron III./LwAusbRgt 1	1985-1986
Medical area 10/2	1985-1986
Troop doctor Hamburg	1985-1986
Refreshment point Hamburg	1985-1986
3rd / Field Hunter Battalion 610	1985-1986
Anti-aircraft gun battery 11 (unit)	1985-1986
Repair training company 5/6	1985-1992
Repair training company 6/6	1981-1994
Driving school group Hamburg 4	1986-1994
Sports promotion group	1990-1996

Reuse

The barracks served as a filming location in the television series Die Rettungsflieger between 1997 and 2007 , where it was the backdrop for the rescue center and the Bundeswehr hospital.

Since 2006, the Bundeswehr has been renting back parts of the building and accommodating studying officers from the nearby Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Bundeswehr Hamburg .

From January 2010, large parts of the barracks were demolished in order to build the new residential area “Jenfelder Au” with around 770 residential units. Only the ensemble around the "small parade ground" to the west and four blocks and some technical buildings east of Wilsonstrasse , some of which have been used by the federal police since then, have been preserved.

With the concept of the Tanzania Park green area , the representation of German colonial history on the site is to be processed in the future.

Picture gallery

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  Former guard at the south end of Wilsonstrasse

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  Extension of Wilsonstrasse on the site

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  North side of the small parade ground

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  Architectural jewelry

literature

• State Office for Geoinformation and Surveying (Ed.): Hamburg in aerial photographs and pictures, 1964 to 2012 . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-95400-165-1 , p. 33, 53 .

Web links

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

• MGFA.de - location database of the Military History Research Office Potsdam (units stationed in the Lettow-Vorbeck-Kaserne can be reached by searching for postcode 22045)
• Photos on hamburg-bildarchiv.de
• Panzergrenadierbrigade 17 introduces the Lettow-Vorbeck-Kaserne. In: panzergrenadierbrigade17.de. Retrieved January 6, 2015 . 
• Oliver Wolf: Dealing with barracks from the time of National Socialism in the preservation of monuments. (PDF) In: baugeschichte.a.tu-berlin.de. TU Berlin, Institute for Building History, accessed on January 5, 2015 (after 1999). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jenfelder Au - a district with a vision. Retrieved January 6, 2015 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} RV map Hamburg 1: 20,000 . 7th edition. RV-Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-575-11383-1 .
3. ^ Finding aid from the Wandsbek property office. There the street is called Tangastraße for 1937. Retrieved January 21, 2016.
4. ↑ St Patrick's Barracks. Retrieved January 6, 2015 . 
5. ↑ St Andrew's Barracks. Retrieved January 6, 2015 . 
6. ↑ List of cultural monuments in the Hamburg district of Wandsbek