Lower Saxony barracks
 Lower Saxony barracks
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| country | Germany | ||
| today | Wolf Center Wildlife Park | ||
| local community | Dörverden | ||
| Coordinates : | 52 ° 49 ' N , 9 ° 13' E | ||
| Opened | 1958 | ||
| owner | Private | ||
| Formerly stationed units | |||
| Accompanying battery 3 Panzergrenadierbataillon 71 Panzerpionierkompanie 320 Engineer Battalion 11 Engineer Battalion 120 Missile Artillery Battalion 32 Transport Battalion 11 US Army |
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Location of the Lower Saxony barracks in Lower Saxony |
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The Lower Barracks was a military barracks of the Bundeswehr in Dörverdener district Barme in Verden .
Until the 1930s, the Heisenhof , actually known as the Drübberanlage , existed here . Then the was here until the war ended investment Weser the Eibia GmbH for chemical products .
A barracks was built in 1958 on the site of the former ammunition factory, in which a total of up to 4,000 soldiers were stationed; Among others, the Panzergrenadierbataillon 71, the Panzerbataillon 33, the engineer battalions 120 and 11, the Panzerpionierkompanie 320, the rocket artillery battalion 32, the escort battery 3 and the transport battalion 11 as well as a 552nd US Army Artillery Group of the US Army, which defeat the service nuclear weapons on the site ammunition guarded. The Heisenhof was used, among other things, as an officers' mess.
The 1st and 2nd battery anti-aircraft missile battalion 35, which were equipped with Hawk missiles , were housed there.
The barracks is one of the settings of Sven Regener's novel Neue Vahr Süd .
Closure and re-use
The Bundeswehr location was closed on September 30, 2003. As a result, the district lost almost a third of its inhabitants. The Heisenhof was sold to the Wilhelm Tietjen Foundation for Fertilization . The Wolf Center Wildlife Park was opened in April 2010 on another part of the site .
The barracks were demolished in 2012/2013. A part of the site was bought by the HF Wiebe company in order to set up a system for parking vehicles.