Nassau Dietz Barracks
 Nassau Dietz Barracks
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| country | Netherlands | ||
| local community | Cranendonck | ||
| Coordinates : | 51 ° 17 ' N , 5 ° 38' E | ||
| Opened | 1956 | ||
| owner | Dutch armed forces | ||
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| 1956-1983 | Legerplaats Budel |
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Air Force Training Regiment 2 Medical Battalion 110 Feldjägerbataillon 730 |
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Location of the Nassau Dietz barracks in North Brabant |
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The Nassau-Dietz-Kaserne ( Legerplaats Budel until 1983 ) is a former army barracks in the village of Budel in the Dutch municipality of Cranendonck .
Built in 1956, the air force of the Bundeswehr maintained the barracks in the Heide von Budel from 1963 to the end of 2005 for the basic training of recruits for infantry property protection. The barracks were used by the Dutch armed forces until 2014 . Today it is an accommodation for asylum seekers .
history
The deployment of German troops was due to a treaty between the Netherlands and Germany of 17 January 1963 the Budel-Seedorf agreement that in exchange for the deployment of Dutch military associations in Seedorf a deployment of infantry Air Force units in barracks similar size in Budel provided. The first German soldiers then moved to the Legerplaats on June 1, 1963.
From 1963 to 1996 were there in varying strengths of ten resp. Twelve companies , the battalions I and II of the Air Force Training Regiment stationed two. The third battalion with four companies was deployed in Ulmen. Following a restructuring of Air Force training was in Budel 1997-2005 Air Force Training Regiment 1 with the companies first - stationed 5th and 16th.
In 1964, the heavy Heeres-Betriebsstofftransportbataillon 961 followed, and in October 1972, until the battalion was disbanded in mid-1986, the Army’s 1st / 2nd and 6th / 110th Medical Battalion were stationed there. The 3./- to 5./110 were deployed as equipment units in Uedem on the Lower Rhine.
Until 1980 there were also military police of III. Train of 3./FJgBtl 730 stationed. This unit was renamed to 8./FJgBtl 730 due to the reclassification of the battalion to Army Structure IV in 1980. This company was finally disbanded in early 1993.
After the Budel-Seedorf Agreement was terminated on September 15, 2004, the barracks were finally handed over to the Dutch in 2005. On February 28, 2014, the military use of the barracks was ended with a ceremony by the Dutch armed forces . Since then it has served as a reception center for asylum seekers.
useful information
- The regular and professional soldiers as well as the civil servants received a foreign allowance , the conscripts double the military pay .
- Temporary / professional soldiers lived outside the barracks in a specially built settlement with their own German school.
- In the barracks there was a duty-free shop for purchasing various goods (cigarettes, alcohol, perfume, groceries, a Philips electronics shop, etc.) on ration cards.
- There was also a cinema (Limbra Theater) on the site, the name of which is derived from the first letters of the provinces of Limburg and Brabant , on whose border it was.
Web links
- Private website with information and photos from alumni
- Asylum seekers accommodation website In: coa.nl (Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ^ Budel-Seedorf Agreement
- ↑ Air Force Training Regiment 2 from page 23 (PDF 530 kB)
- ↑ Schools in the Netherlands ( Memento from November 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )