Oberschwaben-Kaserne Mengen / Hohentengen

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The Upper Swabia barracks at the site amounts / Hohentengen (until 19 April 2006 air base amounts / Hohentengen ) from 1963 until September 26, 2012, a barracks of the air force in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg . Over 100,000 recruits completed their training in the barracks during that time.

history

1939 foundation

The location was founded in 1939 by the Luftwaffe . The airfield and city of Mengen were occupied by soldiers of the 1st French Army on April 22, 1945 . At the end of the war, the Commander-in-Chief of the 1st French Army, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny , flew from Mengen to Berlin to receive the surrender of the German Wehrmacht .

1957 Bundeswehr

The property had been in the hands of the Bundeswehr since 1957 . The barracks were built between 1960 and 1962 due to a lack of accommodation for the operation of the airfield, which was used by the military until 1978. Around 90 percent of this 80 hectare area belongs to the municipality of Hohentengen.

2010 Bundeswehr reform

As a result of the fundamental reform of the Bundeswehr resolved in 2010, the Federal Cabinet decided on December 15, 2010 to suspend compulsory military service in Germany on July 1, 2011 . The air force recruits at the site initially underwent three-month general basic training before they were mostly relocated to another site. This was reduced to six weeks at the beginning of 1976 because of the high birth rate cohorts from 1957. This reform step initiated the abandonment of the location; an integral part of the stationing concept 2011 presented by Federal Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière ( CDU ) on October 26, 2011 in the Federal Cabinet . The organizational measures envisaged the dissolution of the 1st Battalion Air Force Training Regiment and the medical team. The position paper on the location decision drawn up by the district of Sigmaringen and presented in January 2011 did not provide for a “victim strategy”, according to which one would be closed in order to preserve three locations.

2012 closure

In January 2012, recruits came for the last time to the three-month basic training in the Oberschwaben barracks. After completing their training, these last recruits left the site on March 29, 2012. Then the so-called dissolution phase began for the remaining permanent staff, which was completed at the end of August. The barracks have not been used for military purposes since September, but should be empty by the end of 2012 at the latest.

Economical meaning

In the structurally weak rural area, the location was an important economic factor for the city of Mengen and the community of Hohentengen, as well as neighboring communities. The closure means the loss of the everyday consumption of around 250 regular soldiers, 70 civilian employees plus the associated family members as well as the consumption of up to 600 recruits and the vacancy of the barracks buildings. Since the Bundeswehr location is the largest employer in the city of Mengen and the municipality of Hohentengen and at the same time an important customer of local businesses in the retail, catering, service and craft sectors, the liquidation of the Oberschwaben barracks leads to a further slump in the regional economy. The annual economic power of the barracks was estimated by the city administration at ten million euros.

The renovation for ten million euros was almost complete at the beginning of 2011. Renovation work was done by external companies.

According to a departmental report from the Federal Ministry of Defense , the property was handed over to the Federal Real Estate Agency at the beginning of 2013.

Former units in the barracks

  • 1st Battalion Air Force Training Regiment
    • 1st Company Air Force Training Regiment
    • 2nd Company Air Force Training Regiment
    • 3rd Company Air Force Training Regiment
    • 4th Company Air Force Training Regiment
  • Parts of the Bundeswehr service center Stetten am kalten Markt (WV)
  • Paramedic Relay Quantities Hohentengen (ZSan)
  • other departments

Equipment of the barracks

The 28 hectare barracks of the Oberschwaben barracks had the capacity to fully accommodate four training companies of the air force, i.e. H. the accommodation of up to 600 recruits was possible. In addition, the 117 hectare civil airfield guaranteed that soldiers could be relocated quickly.

In addition to the classrooms and living rooms, there were:

  • Medical building
  • Troop kitchen
  • OHG / UHG
  • Clothing store
  • Team home
  • Beach volleyball field
  • Soccer and basketball field
  • Weight room
  • career
  • Obstacle course
  • "Mine and ordnance hall" for "Preparatory training for conflict prevention and crisis management (EAKK)"

Conversion / further civil use

Investor group

On July 15, 2014, the Federal Real Estate Agency sold 80 hectares of the site to a group of private investors at an undisclosed price. Involved:

  • Billionaire Kohm (mail order company Klingel, Pforzheim) with 20 million euros
  • Billionaire Dietmar Hopp (software house SAP, Walldorf) with approx. 10-15 million euros
  • Jürgen Gaugel (manufacturer of painting accessories, already investor in solar systems, Baienfurt)
  • Ravensburger Spieleland
  • Energy research institute of the University of Technology, Economics and Design, Constance
  • six other investors with 20 million euros

Energy usage concept

Jürgen Gaugel leads the project company called Ehoch4 . The name is derived from the four possibilities of regenerative energy generation that are to be used, researched and presented on the site. The following are already available:

  • a hydroelectric power station
  • a biomass plant

Still to be built:

  • a solar park with an area of ​​20 hectares
  • a smaller wind turbine

The existing buildings are well suited for this type of further use. Guest researchers are to be accommodated in the apartments, the clinic rooms are used for research and the subject is to be presented to the public in the existing training rooms.

literature

  • Your location in Mengen-Hohentengen . Mönch-Verlag, 1981.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quantities airfield. In: mil-airfields.de. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Simone Dürmuth: Series. There are more than 4600 soldiers in the district . In: Schwäbische Zeitung , October 30, 2010
  3. ^ Hermann-Peter Steinmüller (hps): Space for tents is crucial . In: Südkurier , December 23, 2011
  4. ↑ Federal government lays down the cornerstones of the reorganization of the Bundeswehr. Federal Ministry of Defense, December 15, 2010, accessed on May 19, 2013 .
  5. ↑ luftwaffe.de
  6. ^ The effects of the stationing concept in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Federal Ministry of Defense, October 26, 2011, archived from the original on October 26, 2011 ; Retrieved October 26, 2011 .
  7. ^ A b c Siegfried Volk: We stand by the Bundeswehr . In: Südkurier , January 13, 2011
  8. ↑ Rapp (rrm): The last recruits will come in January . In: Südkurier of December 10, 2011
  9. ↑ Michael Jäger: Oberschwabenkaserne. The Göge expected a hot autumn with protests . In: Schwäbische Zeitung , September 27, 2010
  10. ↑ Tobias Wagner: Oberschwabenkaserne. Mayors ask defense ministers for help . In: Schwäbische Zeitung , November 12, 2010
  11. ↑ a b c d 5000 employees work in four barracks in the Sigmaringen district . In: Südkurier , January 13, 2011
  12. ↑ Michael Hescheler: District Administrator and Mayor present paper on Bundeswehr locations. Collected arguments for maintaining the garrison - Dirk Gaerte fears economic collapse due to fewer posts . In: Schwäbische Zeitung , January 13, 2011
  13. ^ Report on the status of the realignment of the Bundeswehr. (PDF; 309 kB) Federal Ministry of Defense, May 8, 2013, p. 53 , accessed on May 18, 2013 .
  14. ^ Bundeswehr location database. Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr (ZMSBw)
  15. ↑ luftwaffe.de
  16. ^ Report of the Stuttgarter Zeitung of July 17, 2014

Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 43 ″  N , 9 ° 22 ′ 19 ″  E