Pioneer barracks on the Schanz

Pioneer barracks on the Schanz
country	Germany
local community	Ingolstadt
Coordinates :	48 ° 45 '  N , 11 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 45 '23 "  N , 11 ° 27' 1"  E
Opened	1956-1957
owner	Federal Republic of Germany
Stationed troops
Gebirgspionierbataillon 8 Pionierbataillon 905 (not active) Pioneers training center (Educational Center Pi) Military Engineering Center of Excellence (MILENG COE)
Formerly stationed units
Engineer battalion 4 engineer battalion 10 armored reconnaissance battalion 10 floating bridge company 734 2./Artilleriebataillon 42 2./Artilleriebataillon 240 2./Raketenartilleriebataillon 42 amphibious engineer battalion 230 floating bridge training company 201 floating bridge company 202 2./Schwimmbrückenbataillon 260 2./Schwimmbrückenbataillon 270 Panzer engineer company 280 heavy pioneer repair company 205 6./schweres repair battalion 210 4th / Maintenance Battalion 220 Mountain Tank Pioneer Training Company 280 Pioneer Bridge Training Battalion 230 Heavy Pioneer Battalion 230 Pioneer Training Brigade 60 Technical Special Company 600 Special Pioneer Company 600 Pioneer School and Technical College of the Army for Structural Engineering
Location of the pioneer barracks on the Schanz in Bavaria

The pioneer barracks on the Schanz is a barracks of the Bundeswehr in Ingolstadt in Bavaria . The barracks were built with the establishment of the Bundeswehr in the mid-1950s and occupied by the first units in 1957. On July 17, 1976, after almost 20 years of existence, the location on Manchinger Strasse was given the name “Pionierkaserne auf der Schanz”.

Deployment history

The Pioneer Battalion 4 was formed on August 1, 1956 from the (Construction) South Department of the Federal Border Guard in Rosenheim and relocated to the Karfreit barracks in Brannenburg -Degerndorf on September 1, 1956 . On January 9, 1957, there was another relocation to Dillingen an der Donau , before the battalion moved into the newly completed troop accommodation on December 7, 1957 as the first unit in Manchinger Strasse. On March 1, 1959, the name was changed to Pioneer Battalion 10 and the subordination to the 10th Panzer Division . The battalion remained at the Ingolstadt site for over 34 years and was disbanded on September 30, 1993 after the end of the Cold War .

At the Ingolstadt site, the establishment of the 42 rocket artillery battalion began in January 1960, initially in the form of the 2nd / 42 artillery battalion , which was equipped with Honest John missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons . On April 1, 1961, the unit was then renamed 2./Artilleriebataillon 240 , finally receiving its final designation Raketenartilleriebataillon 42 in 1962 . On April 1, 1966, the battalion moved to its new location in Hemau , near which there was a special ammunition depot for atomic warheads .

From the airborne armored reconnaissance company 9 and the mountain armored reconnaissance company 230 , the 10th tank reconnaissance battalion was set up on April 1, 1959 at the Manchinger Strasse location in Ingolstadt . On October 1, 1959, the battalion moved from the 4th Panzer Grenadier Division to the 10th Panzer Division. On October 1, 1971, with Army Structure III, Brigade Reconnaissance Units 29 and 30 were subordinated to the Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion 10 for service purposes. On July 4, 1979, however, in anticipation of Army Structure IV, the armored reconnaissance platoon 300 was returned to Panzerbrigade 30 in Ellwangen . On September 18, 1992, Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion 10 was disbanded with effect from September 30, 1992.

On July 1, 1960, the heavy pioneer repair company 205 was set up in Ingolstadt . It was reclassified to the 6th / Heavy Repair Battalion 210 on October 16, 1967 . In 1972 the change to the repair battalion 220 , which had its headquarters in Ludwigsburg , as its 4th company, which remained based in Ingolstadt. The repair battalion moved with its staff to Dornstadt on April 1, 1993 , where it existed until May 17, 2003.

The unit, later referred to as Panzerpionierkompanie 280 , was created in 1956 in Munich as the 4th swimming bridge company of the heavy pioneer training battalion 210 . In 1962 it was transferred to Ingolstadt as the swimming bridge company 202 , but remained subordinate to the battalion in Munich. In 1964, the unit became the 6th swimming bridge company of the Pioneer Training Battalion 210 in Munich, based in Ingolstadt. In 1971, with the formation of the floating bridge battalion 270 in Ingolstadt , the company became the 2nd, only active company of the battalion, which otherwise existed as a device unit and was stored at the Münchsmünster mobilization base . As early as October 1975, however, the separation and renaming to Panzerpionierkompanie 280 , which was subordinated to Panzerbrigade 28 , took place. On October 1, 1993, the company moved to Pioneer Training Brigade 60 and was reclassified to Mountain Armored Pioneer Training Company 280 . On September 30, 2002, the unit was finally disbanded.

The floating bridge battalion 260 emerged from the floating bridge company 734 , which was set up on September 1, 1956 in the Karfreit barracks in Brannenburg-Degerndorf , which was subordinate to the engineer battalion 4 and which moved with this unit via Dillingen on December 7, 1957 to the new troop accommodation on Manchinger Strasse. On March 1, 1959, the company was renamed Swimming Bridge Training Company 201 and subordinated to the Pioneer Training Regiment in Munich. Finally, the company was incorporated as 5th in the heavy pioneer training battalion 210 on September 30, 1964. In October 1971, the swimming bridge battalion was set up as a partially active unit in Ingolstadt, with the previous 5th / heavy pioneering training battalion 210 being reclassified to the active 2nd / swimming bridge battalion 260 has been. It was subordinate to the Amphibious Engineer Battalion 230 and remained the only active company until the battalion was disbanded on September 30, 1993.

The amphibious pioneer battalion 230 was set up on October 1, 1970 at the Ingolstadt site from the amphibious pioneer training company 201 , the 5th / pioneer battalion 10 , the 5th / pioneer battalion 4 coming from Bogen and a newly formed staff and supply company. The battalion belonged to Pioneer Command 2 of the II Corps in Ulm . The battalion was reclassified to Pioneer Bridge Training Battalion 230 on October 1, 1993 . On April 1, 1997, the name was changed to the heavy Pioneer Training Battalion 230 . On September 30, 2002, the battalion was finally disbanded.

With Army Structure V , Pioneer Training Brigade 60 was set up in the Pioneer Barracks on the Schanz on October 1, 1993 and existed until March 31, 2004. From 1994 it was subordinate to the 1st Mountain Division and was nicknamed "Bavarian Lion".

On October 1, 1993, the technical special company 600 (pipeline pioneers) was set up at the Ingolstadt site. The company directly subordinated to the Pioneer Training Brigade 60 was renamed Special Pioneer Company 600 on April 1, 1997 . It lasted until December 31, 2003.

The Mountain Pioneer Battalion 8 set up by order of August 17, 1956 with effect from June 1, 1957 was stationed in the Karfreit barracks in Brannenburg-Degerndorf and directly subordinated to the 1st Mountain Division . With Army Structure V, it was subordinated to Pioneer Training Brigade 60 in Ingolstadt from October 1, 1993, but remained in Brannenburg and, shortly before the dissolution of Pioneer Training Brigade 60, on December 5, 2003, it was transferred to Mountain Infantry Brigade 23 . Between December 2009 and March 2010 the battalion moved to the renovated pioneer barracks on the Schanz in Ingolstadt.

The roots of the Pioneer Battalion 905 (equipment unit) , which was later stationed in Ingolstadt, lay with the Building Pioneer Battalion 764 , which was set up as an equipment unit on January 1, 1963. Its location was initially Ebenhausen , then two months later Garching-Hochbrück . On May 1, 1967, the name was changed to Pioneer Battalion 764 , and in April 1981 it was reclassified to Pioneer Battalion 761 . On January 1, 1993, the battalion after Bruckmühl was stored in the mobilization base Heufeld and reorganized. On April 1, 1998, the battalion was reclassified again and relocated to Brannenburg. The battalion was formally dissolved with effect from December 31, 2008 and the personnel for the engineer battalion 905, which was set up on July 1, 2008, was brought in. With effect from October 1, 2009, the engineer battalion moved 905 to Ingolstadt. Since December 2014 it has been under the control of the 10th Panzer Division.

The Pioneers training center goes back to the "Troop School for Pioneers" set up in the Lohengrin barracks in Munich by order of March 22, 1956 . This facility began teaching in Munich on July 1, 1956. In 1966 she received the additional designation "Academy of the Army for Civil Engineering". In 1972 it was renamed the "Army Pioneer School and Technical College for Structural Engineering". The "Euro NATO Training Engineer Center" (ENTEC) was subordinated to the pioneer school in 1977. In 1993, teaching group B moved to Ingolstadt in the pioneer barracks on the Schanz. Finally, with a farewell roll call on January 22, 2009 from January 26, 2009 the pioneer school was relocated to the renovated and converted barracks in Ingolstadt. At the beginning of January 2009, the Military Engineering Center of Excellence (MILENG COE), which emerged from ENTEC as an independent organization at the end of 2008, moved into quarters in Ingolstadt. On July 2, 2015, the pioneer school was finally closed and the pioneers training center was set up in Ingolstadt.

Renovation of the barracks buildings and conversion of the western part of the site

With the decision of the Federal Minister of Defense on February 16, 2001 to relocate the Pioneer School and Technical College of the Army for Structural Engineering from Munich to the pioneer barracks on the Schanz, the structural changes for the barracks began. In 2002, an architectural competition was launched by the State Building Authority and the city of Ingolstadt, which included both the renovation and redesign of the eastern part of the barracks on Manchinger Strasse with an area of ​​27 hectares for use by the pioneer school, as well as the conversion of a 14 hectare Area in the west of the site for civil use included. A total of 45 hectares had to be planned.

By detaching a first part of the barracks northwest of the southern ring road, on which the sports fields were located, the Saturn Arena Ingolstadt was opened for use on October 3, 2003 .

After a revision of the plans in 2004, which became necessary due to the expansion of the Bundeswehr stationing concept for Ingolstadt to include the Brannenburg Mountain Pioneer Battalion 8, the groundbreaking ceremony for the renovation and reconstruction of the barracks was carried out on September 13, 2006. In December 2008 the construction work was essentially completed. In January 2009, the Military Engineering Center of Excellence and finally the Pioneer School moved into the converted barracks. The official handover of the keys took place on June 23, 2009 with a ceremony.

In 2008 a company from the city of Ingolstadt acquired the area that had been removed from the barracks for civil use. Three building sites have now been planned here. In Section I, with a size of approx. 2.5 hectares, the existing buildings were to be largely retained and residential use should take place. In the western part of this construction site, use for non-disruptive commercial operations (office space) was considered. In field II, multi-storey new residential buildings were planned on an area of ​​around 4 hectares. Finally, in Area III, located along the southern ring road, with around 2.2 hectares, a mixed use of retail and other commercial units was to be created. In the middle of the entire area, a green belt running in a west-east direction with public areas was planned. The city changed its zoning plan accordingly and created a development plan no. 106 C "Former Pioneer Site".

In 2011, the redesign of the pioneer barracks on the Schanz was completed with the construction of the Ingolstadt district military replacement office . 140 million euros had flowed into planning and construction measures to maintain the barracks. Shortly afterwards it became known that the Ingolstadt student union had acquired two old barracks buildings in order to set up student apartments. Three more blocks of the old location went from the city's economic development agency to private investors who built smaller apartments in it. In 2014 the foundation stone was laid for the “Schanzer Carrée” with 20 city villas, which were completed in 2015.

Web links

• Bundeswehr Network Ingolstadt
• Ingolstadt site, approx. 1989 (p. 522/523 in the link)

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of the battalion. Comradeship Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion 10 e. V., accessed on April 16, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Günter Reichel (responsible): 25 years Ingolstadt location, Mönch-Verlag Koblenz / Bonn 1982, p. 13
3. ↑ Dr. Dieter Storz: Lecture “175 Years of Pioneers in Ingolstadt”, in: Kaskett, issue 18/2002. Publisher: Friends of the Bavarian Army Museum e. V., Ingolstadt / Ottobrunn 2002, p. 26
4. ↑ Short chronicle of the 42nd rocket artillery battalion.Retrieved on April 16, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Günter Reichel (responsible): 25 years Ingolstadt location, Mönch-Verlag Koblenz / Bonn 1982, p. 10
6. ^ Walter Elkins: USAREUR Units and Kasernes. Retrieved April 16, 2017 . 
7. ^ History of the battalion. Comradeship Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion 10 e. V., accessed on April 16, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Günter Reichel (responsible): 25 years Ingolstadt location, Mönch-Verlag Koblenz / Bonn 1982, p. 17
9. ↑ Günter Reichel (responsible): 25 years Ingolstadt location, Mönch-Verlag Koblenz / Bonn 1982, p. 23
10. ^ Joachim Lenk: Units in the Rommel barracks. Retrieved April 16, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Günter Reichel (responsible): 25 years Ingolstadt location, Mönch-Verlag Koblenz / Bonn 1982, p. 14
12. ↑ Dr. Dieter Storz: Lecture “175 Years of Pioneers in Ingolstadt”, in: Kaskett, issue 18/2002. Publisher: Friends of the Bavarian Army Museum e. V., Ingolstadt / Ottobrunn 2002, p. 27
13. ↑ Günter Reichel (responsible): 25 years Ingolstadt location, Mönch-Verlag Koblenz / Bonn 1982, p. 21
14. ↑ Günter Reichel (responsible): 25 years Ingolstadt location, Mönch-Verlag Koblenz / Bonn 1982, p. 19
15. ↑ Dr. Dieter Storz: Lecture “175 Years of Pioneers in Ingolstadt”, in: Kaskett, issue 18/2002. Publisher: Friends of the Bavarian Army Museum e. V., Ingolstadt / Ottobrunn 2002, p. 27
16. ↑ Dr. Dieter Storz: Lecture “175 Years of Pioneers in Ingolstadt”, in: Kaskett, issue 18/2002. Publisher: Friends of the Bavarian Army Museum e. V., Ingolstadt / Ottobrunn 2002, p. 26 f.
17. ↑ Dr. Dieter Storz: Lecture “175 Years of Pioneers in Ingolstadt”, in: Kaskett, issue 18/2002. Publisher: Friends of the Bavarian Army Museum e. V., Ingolstadt / Ottobrunn 2002, p. 27
18. ^ History of the Mountain Pioneer Battalion, 8th Bundeswehr, accessed on April 17, 2017 . 
19. ^ History of the Mountain Infantry Brigade, 23rd Bundeswehr, accessed on April 17, 2017 . 
20. ↑ History of the Pioneer Battalion 905 (not active). Bundeswehr, accessed on April 17, 2017 . 
21. ^ History of the Pioneers Training Center. Bundeswehr, accessed on April 17, 2017 . 
22. ↑ Living on the pioneer site. New use for a conversion area, PDF. (PDF) City of Ingolstadt, July 2014, accessed on April 17, 2017 . 
23. ^ Project “Pioneers Ingolstadt”. (No longer available online.) Ingolstadt State Building Authority, archived from the original on March 18, 2016 ; Retrieved April 17, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
24. ↑ Living on the pioneer site. New use for a conversion area, PDF. (PDF) City of Ingolstadt, July 2014, accessed on April 17, 2017 . 
25. ↑ History of the Army Pioneer School and Technical College for Structural Engineering - Pioneers Training Center (LernZ Pi). Bundeswehr, accessed on April 17, 2017 . 
26. ↑ Living on the pioneer site. New use for a conversion area, PDF. (PDF) City of Ingolstadt, July 2014, accessed on April 17, 2017 . 
27. ↑ After years of construction: pioneer school in Ingolstadt almost finished. Augsburger Allgemeine, March 8, 2011, accessed April 17, 2017 . 
28. ↑ Harald Jung: Ingolstadt: fillet pieces behind barbed wire. Augsburger Allgemeine, March 11, 2011, accessed April 17, 2017 . 
29. ↑ A new district. Donaukurier, May 6, 2014, accessed on April 17, 2017 .