Pioneer barracks (Metternich)
 Pioneer barracks Koblenz
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| country | Germany | ||
| local community | Koblenz | ||
| Coordinates : | 50 ° 22 ' N , 7 ° 34' E | ||
| Opened | 1950-1953 | ||
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| 1951-1956 | Basset's quarter |
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| Force auxillier du Génie 53 Pioneer Battalion Koblenz Heavy Engineer Battalion 717 Heavy Swimming Bridge Company 724 2nd / Swimming Bridge Battalion 860 Heavy Engineer Battalion 850 Pioneer Battalion 320 Defense Technical Service 41 |
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Location of the pioneer barracks in Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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The pioneer barracks was a barracks in Koblenz . The barracks, originally called Quartier Basset , were one of the few in Koblenz that was built for the French occupation after the Second World War . Today the University of Koblenz-Landau is located there .
history
The barracks, newly built on Winninger Strasse from 1950 to 1953, were occupied by French soldiers as early as 1951, including the Force auxillier du Génie 53 . Since the French occupation was pressing for an early completion of the site, German plans from the 1930s were used for the construction of the building. After the Bundeswehr was founded in 1955, the Koblenz Pioneer Battalion was set up in the barracks from July 1, 1956 , and from October 1, 1956, it was subordinated to the 5th Panzer Division. When the barracks were handed over to the Bundeswehr on November 14, 1956, it was the first Koblenz site to be evacuated by the French army. On May 16, 1957, the Koblenz Pioneer Battalion was renamed 717 Heavy Pioneer Battalion and from August 1, 1957 it was directly subordinated to the 706 Heavy Pioneer Regiment and thus assigned to the "Territorial Defense Office". On April 1, 1971, the unit was named the 850 Heavy Engineer Battalion . On October 1, 1979, the battalion was renamed Pionierbataillon 320 and the III. Corps subordinated.
Since the end of the 1950s, the heavy swimming bridge company 724 had also been based in the barracks . On April 1, 1971, this company became the active 2./Swimmbrückebataillon 860. The 860 swimming bridge battalion was renamed on October 1, 1979, and was relocated to Speyer on April 27, 1987.
In the course of the troop reduction of the Bundeswehr, the engineer battalion 320 moved to its new location in the Deines Bruchmüller barracks in Lahnstein on July 14, 1994 . The pioneer barracks Koblenz was given up in 1994 and sold by the federal government to the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the end of 1995 . After extensive renovation and new construction measures from 1997 to 2002, the University of Koblenz-Landau moved from its old location on the Oberwerth to the former barracks site, where four barracks buildings (today's buildings A, B, C and K) have been preserved . In addition, the former pioneer training area on the banks of the Moselle is still used today by a branch of the Defense Technical Service 41 , which emerged in January 2013 from the merger with the Defense Technical Service 51 for engineer and troop equipment. The use of the areas that became free after the dissolution of Defense Technical Service 41 for the University of Koblenz-Landau was the subject of a small inquiry in the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chronicle of the Pioneer Battalion 320, introduction
- ↑ Chronicle of the Pioneer Battalion 320, years 1956 to 1979
- ↑ Chronicle of the Pioneer Battalion 320, introduction
- ^ History of the University of Koblenz-Landau
- ↑ Defense Technical Department 41 near the city of Koblenz
- ↑ Landtag printed paper 16/855 of February 3, 2012, small question from MP Andreas Biebricher (CDU) and answer from the state government
literature
- Koblenz city archive: (StAK) DB 8 military, 07 barracks: 3.20 Metternich pioneer barracks.
- Rüdiger Wischemann: The Koblenz Fortress. From the Roman fort and Prussia's strongest fortress to the largest garrison of the Bundeswehr. Rhenania Buchhandlung, Koblenz 1978, p. 154 and p. 181.