Panzerjäger barracks
 Panzerjäger barracks
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| country | Germany | ||
| today | Abraxas cultural center residential area |
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| local community | augsburg | ||
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 23 ' N , 10 ° 52' E | ||
| Opened | 1935 | ||
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| 1935-1945 1953-1994 |
Panzerjäger barracks part of the Reese Barracks |
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Location of the Panzerjäger barracks in Bavaria |
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The tank destroyer barracks is a former barracks of the Wehrmacht in the Augsburg district Kriegshaber .
history
The tank destroyer barracks was built in the mid-1930s by the Army on a military use since 1806 and served area of the branch of service of tank destroyers , specifically to the anti-tank was finished. The barracks formed the northwestern part of a military complex that also included the Arras and Somme barracks . In 1936/37 a shared officers' mess was built for all three barracks .
The Panzerjäger barracks, like the other parts of the barracks complex, remained virtually undamaged during World War II and was taken over by the US Army immediately after the end of the war , and after a few years of temporary use in 1953, the three barracks, which had previously been run independently, were taken over collapsed to the Reese Barracks . The appointment was made in honor of James W. Reese , a carrier of the Medal of Honor , which in August 1943 in Sicily , the conquest of enemy support point had significantly contributed lead and was there much. A baseball field was set up for the US soldiers in the northeast of the tank destroyer barracks . The Reese barracks was used by the US Army until 1993/94.
Current usage
Most of the buildings of the former Panzerjäger barracks have been converted into living space in recent years and, like the rest of the Reese barracks, are to be integrated into the Kriegshaber district in an urban development process. The former officers' mess of the three barracks is now used as the Abraxas cultural center for cultural events, and the baseball field is still in operation.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ A b City of Augsburg: "War and Peace" - Open Monument Day 2005, p. 4f ( Memento from February 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ America in Augsburg: The Reese barracks , accessed on February 7, 2016.
- ^ City of Augsburg: Reese-Kaserne ( Memento from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).