Pontlatz barracks

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Blackhawk helicopters in the Pontlatz barracks

The Pontlatz barracks is a barracks of the Austrian Armed Forces in the town of Landeck in Tyrol . The barracks is named after the Pontlatzer Bridge , where two armed ambushes were carried out in 1703 and 1809 .

history

The Pontlatz barracks was built at the end of the First Republic in 1937. At that time it consisted of seven buildings: three team buildings, a command building and a school building as well as a kitchen and a stable. In Landeck, the armed forces of the First Republic initially housed units of the Vienna Infantry Regiment No. 6 “Hoch- und Deutschmeister” . After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich , parts of the IIIrd were in the barracks at the beginning of the Second World War . Battalion of the Mountain Infantry Regiment 136 ( 2nd Mountain Division ) of the Wehrmacht . After the end of World War II, the barracks were initially taken over by the French occupation forces and returned to the Austrian Armed Forces after the conclusion of the Austrian State Treaty in 1955. For a long time, a pack of animals was stationed in the Pontlatz barracks in Landeck.

Due to the location of the town of Landeck at the entrance to the Paznaun Valley , the Pontlatz barracks played an important role as a deployment center for the armed forces and a field airfield during the avalanche disaster in Galtür in 1999. Most of the helicopters used for evacuation landed directly on the barracks area. Since 2009, the disaster control magazine of the state of Tyrol has been located in the Pontlatz barracks.

In the barracks dislocated are troops of 2017 newly established Hunter battalion 6 (JgB 6):

  • 1. High mountain mobile hunter company / hunter battalion 6
  • 2nd high mountain mobile hunter company / Jägerbataillon 6

See also

Web links

Commons : Pontlatz-Kaserne  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pontlatz barracks. In: Memorial Heer website of the Federal Army. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
  2. ^ ORF Tirol: Disaster control magazine in Pontlatzkaserne . Article of September 22, 2009.
  3. ^ The new structures of the armed forces. In: Website of the Austrian Armed Forces. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 8 ′ 31.1 ″  N , 10 ° 34 ′ 22.6 ″  E