Hombroich missile station
The Hombroich rocket station is a museum site near Holzheim in the area of the city of Neuss owned by the Insel Hombroich Foundation [pronunciation: 'hom'bro: ch ]. There used to be a NATO missile site here .
history
In 1962 a barracks for 300 soldiers of the Belgian military forces was built on Neusser Straße in Grevenbroich-Kapellen . Subsequently, on behalf of the Americans, the construction of the rocket station in Neuss-Hombroich began on 13 hectares, which was commissioned in 1967 by a Belgian rocket squadron. A radar system was part of the immediate vicinity of the two locations (at the end of the village Kapellen). Nike Hercules missiles (MIM-14) were kept ready at the missile station, which had a range of up to 150 km and were equipped with the W31 nuclear warhead . The military complex consisted of 3 launch bases and was used for deterrence and national defense. Between 1968 and 1985, both the Belgian Air Force (55 Smaldeel [= squadron]) and US soldiers (Team C 507; artillery) were stationed at this complex. In the 1980s there were demonstrations and sit-in blockades by supporters of the peace movement in front of the facility, including in January 1984. The rockets were dismantled and transported away under the INF Treaty in 1988. The site was closed in 1990.
Reuse
In 1994 Karl-Heinrich Müller acquired the area and had the existing buildings rebuilt. The drafts for the further design of the rocket station (buildings and sculptures) were presented at the 6th Architecture Biennale in Venice in 1996 , the design was carried out by Katsuhito Nishikawa , Erwin Heerich and Oliver Kruse from 1994 onwards. Today composers live and work on the site, Artist, writer and scientist.
In 2004, the Langen Foundation's art and exhibition house designed by Tadao Ando was completed.
The historic strategic railway embankment touches the museum grounds on which the foundation is planning the “Raumortlabor” project, a use with development and nature.
After Karl-Heinrich Müller's death in 2007, the completion of various structures on the foundation's site was uncertain. The "House for Musicians" designed by the architect Raimund Abraham was completed in 2014. It has four practice rooms that extend over two floors, large common areas, a studio room, four apartments and a library. The inner courtyard and the underground arena can also be used.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rheinische ART, Claus P. Woitschützke: Das "Kultur-Biotop" Raketenstation-Hombroich, First Cold War - Later Art, 12/2011 , accessed on October 18, 2019
- ↑ Stadtblatt.de, Search for traces: The former Belgian NATO military base in Grevenbroich , accessed on October 17, 2019
- ↑ Kulturmagazin Rheinische Art 2/2014 , accessed on July 10, 2015
Web links
- Photos from the Hombroich missile station
- Langen Foundation, Hombroich 1 rocket station
- NGZ-Online , Wiljo Piel: NATO barracks cleared , October 11, 2007 with information about the missile station
- 507th Artillery Detachment / USAAD in Kapellen / Erft Team C (5th US Army Artillery Group, 59th Ordnance Brigade, US Army in Germany from 1945 to 1989)
- Explanation on Belgische Luchtmacht / Force Aérienne Belge, 55 Smd, Charlie-Team, Kapellen
- Atomwaffen AZ , information about nuclear weapons depots in Germany that were under the control of the 59th US Ordnance Brigade with headquarters in Pirmasens, u. a. Chapels with the Nike fire position in Neuss
- City of Neuss: Langen Foundation, art and exhibition house
- Art in Düsseldorf: Langen Foundation
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '9.81 " N , 6 ° 38' 35.38" O