Reinhardt barracks
 Reinhardt barracks
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Reinhardt barracks from the Schloßberg |
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| country | Germany | ||
| local community | Ellwangen (Jagst) | ||
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 57 ' N , 10 ° 8' E | ||
| Opened | 1914 to 1916/1961 to 1968 | ||
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| see service units | |||
| Old barracks names | |||
| 1934–1945 1945–1955 1956–1968 1961–1968 |
Mühlberg barracks Ellwangen barracks Mühlberg barracks Hungerberg barracks |
 
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| Formerly stationed units | |||
| 103rd Engineer Combat Battalion 103rd Medical Battalion Transport Battalion 465 Panzer Grenadier Brigade 30th Panzer Grenadier Battalion 302 |
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Location of the Reinhardt barracks in Baden-Württemberg |
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The Reinhardt barracks is a barracks of the Bundeswehr in Ellwangen (Jagst) . It is named after General Walther Reinhardt from Württemberg . The barracks is located on the southern outskirts of Ellwangen near the federal highway 290 and is the oldest location of the Bundeswehr in Baden-Württemberg . At the end of June 2014, the last military unit stationed there was disbanded. In April 2015, a state initial reception center (LEA) for refugees was opened in the southern accommodation buildings.
history
Construction of the Ellwang Mühlberg barracks began in 1914 and was completed in 1916. It served as a non-commissioned officer school (non-commissioned preparatory school) for the Württemberg army . In 1920 it had to be dissolved due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty . After the evacuation by the army, units of the state police and a police school department were housed from 1921 to 1923. Then it served as accommodation for the Protestant state orphanage of Württemberg until 1934. From 1934 the area was again used for military purposes and greatly expanded.
First, the barracks from III./1. SS standard obtained. In the following years, extensive extensions were built (including the so-called "Z-Block"). During the Second World War , the SS Panzer Grenadier Training Battalion and Substitute Battalion 5 were stationed in the barracks, as well as an engineer battalion and an anti-tank division of the 335th Infantry Division of the Army .
After the end of the Second World War, the US Army briefly used the barracks as a military hospital in 1945. From 1946 to 1951, 3000 former Ukrainian forced laborers were housed there by the IRO . From 1951 units of the US Army were stationed again; In 1955 the site was handed over to the newly established Bundeswehr.
On July 23, 1956, the 24th Grenadier Battalion moved into the barracks as the first unit, making the Reinhardt barracks the oldest Bundeswehr location in Baden-Württemberg. At the beginning of the 1960s, the barracks were completely refurbished and significantly expanded with the construction of the technical area and new accommodation for the supply battalion 306 on the southern slope of the Hunger Mountain. The on-site shooting range and ammunition store were also built at this time. On October 25, 1968, the new Hungerberg barracks were handed over and merged with the old Mühlberg barracks. On this day the Reinhardt barracks got its current name. As the latest structural extensions to the barracks, a supply hall, a washing facility and two sports fields were built in the southern part between 1982 and 1986. In addition, at the beginning of the 1990s , a new farm building with a troop kitchen and team home was built in the historic part of the barracks.
As part of the restructuring of the Bundeswehr , it was announced on October 26, 2011 that all uniformed units were to be withdrawn. On January 23, 2014, the roll call of the Transport Battalion 465 took place, which was dissolved with effect from March 31, 2014. The last military units to be disbanded on June 30, 2014 were the Ellwangen driver training center and the medical team. Only the Language Center South, with around 30 posts and around 220 course participants, will remain as a civilian military service in the historic part of the barracks. For the time being, this part of the site will continue to be used as the Bundeswehr barracks. The unused part of the site was originally supposed to be transferred to the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks in 2015 .
In autumn 2014, the state of Baden-Württemberg and the city of Ellwangen decided to set up a state initial reception center (LEA) for refugees in the unused part of the Reinhardt barracks. The accommodation buildings in the southern part of the barracks were used for this purpose. The facility opened in April 2015 and is designed for a standard occupancy of 500 to 1000 refugees. However, due to the high influx of refugees in summer 2015, over 4,500 refugees were accommodated in the LEA in September. To relieve the facility, individual repair and vehicle halls of the technical area of the barracks were released for refugee accommodation. In November 2015, the state of Baden-Württemberg began converting the repair halls into residential units. The investment volume was around 5.1 million euros. The converted halls have been able to accommodate up to 1,000 people since Christmas 2015, to provide relief for the LEA, which is occupied by around 3,400 refugees (as of December 1, 2015).
In the middle of 2017, further buildings in the historical part of the barracks were given to the city of Ellwangen. For this purpose, the entrance to the area at the main gate of the barracks, which is still used by the Bundeswehr's southern language center, was relocated approx. 30 meters to the rear. The military area was newly fenced. In addition to the historical staff building with the former main station, the “Z-Block”, the farm building, the sanitary area and the heating center as well as other accommodation buildings and halls were handed over. The access to these buildings was dedicated to public transport as "Reinhardtstrasse". The city of Ellwangen is now planning to set up a "European Training and Transfer Academy" (EATA) for vocational training for young people from European countries. The conversion of the building to 250 residential spaces as well as training and social rooms is to begin in autumn 2017 and will cost around 15.6 million euros. The city and the Ostalbkreis contribute EUR 6.3 million and the state of Baden-Württemberg and the EU EUR 9.3 million, among others. a. from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). A preliminary operation for the EATA was set up in the spring of 2017 in the former medical area.
Buildings and facilities
The Reinhardt barracks had three entrances, the main gate on Hohenstaufenstrasse in the old area of the barracks, the south gate to Kreisstrasse 3319 and Bundesstrasse 290 and the north gate on Dürerstrasse. The north gate was normally closed and typically only served as access to the Bundeswehr service center . In addition to the actual accommodation in the Mühlberg and Hungerberg area, the barracks had an extensive technical area at the south gate, a medical center as well as two sports fields and a fuel store in the south. The supply hall was near the north gate. The historical part of the barracks is a structurally unique ensemble and is a listed building. The access to the language center south of the Bundeswehr is via an automatic barrier system in the area of the former main gate in Hohenstaufenstrasse. The soldiers' home “OASE - Casino Ellwangen” is located in the barracks and , as a managed care facility, provides catering for course participants at the South Language Center
The actual barracks also included a site shooting range northeast of Ellwangen, an ammunition store on the road to Dalkingen and a site training area that stretched east of it to the A 7 motorway .
Service units
The following units are currently stationed in the Reinhardt barracks (as of August 2014):
| coat of arms | unit | Period | army |
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| Federal Language Office Language Center South | since 2008 |
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| Federal Language Office 5th inspection | since 2008 |
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Former service units
The following units of the Bundeswehr were stationed in the Reinhardt barracks:
- Units of the logistics group :
- Transport Battalion 465 (SKB) (2005-2014)
- Transport Battalion 10 (H) (1993-2005)
- Supply Battalion 10 (H) (1975-1993)
- Supply Battalion 306 (H) (1959–1975)
- Driving training center Ellwangen (SKB) (1994–2014)
- 6./Logistikbataillon 461 (SKB) (2003-2006)
- 4./Nachschubbataillon 12 (H)
- 2./Nachschubbataillon 102 (H)
- 2nd / Maintenance Battalion 210 (H)
- Repair company 300 (H) (1971–1986)
- Supply Company 300 (H) (1974–1986)
- Resupply Training Company 7/10 (H) (1980–1988)
- Armored Force Units :
- Panzergrenadierbrigade 30 "Alb Brigade" (1981-2008)
- Panzer Brigade 30 (1959–1981)
- Panzer Grenadier Battalion 301 (1981–1989)
- Panzergrenadierbataillon 302 (1958-1993)
- Panzergrenadierbataillon 303 (1981-1992)
- Grenadier Battalion 24 (1956–1959)
- Panzerjägerkompanie 300 (1968–1992)
- Tank Engineer Company 300 (1959–1995)
- Medical service units :
- Medical team Ellwangen (ZSan) (2008-2014)
- Medical center Ellwangen (ZSan) (1999–2008)
- Medical center 504 (1983–1999)
Other units:
- Training base SIRA battalion (H) (1996-2010)
- Telecommunications system district 502
- Field replacement company 300 (H)
- NBC Defense Company 300 (H) (1968–1971)
In addition, from 1955 to 2014, the Ellwangen site administration was located in a property adjacent to the barracks (from 2007 the Ellwangen Bundeswehr service center ).
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.usarmygermany.com/Communities/Stuttgart/Aerials_Ellwangen.htm
- ↑ Ipf- und Jagst-Zeitung: LEA opens in the first week of April , January 30, 2015
- ^ A b Reinhardt-Kaserne Ellwangen (ed.): Location Ellwangen / Jagst , VBB Thissen, 3rd edition, 1997
- ↑ a b Ipf- und Jagstzeitung: Farewell to the Bundeswehr in Ellwangen , Saturday, January 25, 2014
- ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung: Ellwangen decides on a state initial reception center , November 6, 2014
- ↑ Ipf- und Jagst-Zeitung: LEA opens in the first week of April , January 30, 2015
- ^ Südwest-Rundfunk: Refugees are moving , September 24, 2015
- ↑ Hohenloher Tagblatt: LEA Ellwangen will be expanded , September 20, 2015
- ↑ Schwäbische Post: 1000 new LEA spaces in a hurry , December 3, 2015
- ↑ Hohenloher Tagblatt: Barracks: Fence on, casino closed? , June 3, 2017
- ↑ Ipf- und Jagst-Zeitung: EATA will be on "Reinhardtstrasse" , June 3, 2017
- ↑ Ministry for Rural Areas and Consumer Protection Baden-Württemberg : Model project for the integration of refugees in the conversion community Ellwangen started , June 3, 2016
- ↑ Homepage. In: oase-ellwangen.de. Retrieved October 24, 2019 .
- ^ Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr (ZMSBw): Bundeswehr location database
- ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung: Reinhardt-Kaserne Ellwangen: No more battles are simulated here , March 11, 2010