Rhine barracks
 Rhine barracks
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Main entrance of the Rhine barracks in Koblenz-Lützel |
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| country | Germany | ||
| local community | Koblenz-Lützel | ||
| Coordinates : | 50 ° 22 ' N , 7 ° 36' E | ||
| Opened | 1912/13 | ||
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Institute for Preventive Medicine of the Bundeswehr Medical Service Command of the Bundeswehr Monitoring points for public law tasks of the medical service of the Bundeswehr Multinational Medical Coordination Center |
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| 1913-1922 1922-1928 |
Train barracks |
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| Train Battalion No. 8 Infantry Regiment 80 |
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Location of the Rhine barracks in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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The Rhein-Kaserne (formerly Train-Kaserne , also Artillery-Kaserne Koblenz-Lützel ) is a military property of the Bundeswehr in Koblenz . Some of the barracks buildings in the Lützel district were erected for the Prussian army over the Neuendorfer Flesche , a historic part of the Koblenz fortress from 1825, before the First World War . In 1957, after almost 10 years of use by the French army , the barracks were handed over to the German armed forces and renamed the Rhein barracks. The barracks is one of four barracks still in use in the city. Between 1914 and 1945 there were a total of 16 barracks in Koblenz.
history
The construction work to build a barracks at today's location began around 1912. The site of the Neuendorfer Flesche , which was probably demolished a year earlier, was used. During the construction work, first two team houses, a staff building and a family house for the NCOs were built . The two team houses, as well as some outbuildings such as the stables and the officers 'mess, are still there today and, with the exception of the old officers' mess, are still used by the Bundeswehr. The first occupancy took place about a year after the start of construction. The construction work was completed in 1913 and in the following year the Train Battalion No. 8 moved from the Münz barracks in Ehrenbreitstein to the new property. For this reason it was given the original name "Train barracks".
After the end of the First World War, the barracks were occupied by foreign troops for the first time in 1919 as part of the Allied occupation of the Rhineland , and US soldiers were stationed here until 1922 . In 1923, French hunters took over the barracks for another six years. During this time it was called Quartier Marceau . After the end of the occupation in 1929, the barracks reverted to the tax authorities. It was probably during this time that parts of the site were sold to a company and the casino was converted into private apartments. After the Rhineland was occupied in 1936 , the barracks were handed over to the Wehrmacht , which stationed parts of the 80th Infantry Regiment and the 34th Artillery Regiment here and housed an auxiliary equipment office (clothing office). During the Second World War , the barracks were used as a military hospital for prisoners of war from 1940 to 1942 . Until the end of the war it was again called the Train Barracks or Artillery Barracks . From 1945 to 1948, the undamaged barracks were used to accommodate "bombed out" families and as workshops for companies from Koblenz.
According to the resolutions of the Potsdam Conference of 1945, Koblenz belonged to the French zone of occupation . In 1948, French troops again moved into the barracks. First of all, the heavily damaged buildings were restored, and more new buildings were added. The French army finally divided the barracks into two areas, which were named Caserne Eblé and Caserne Général Hoche . The barracks remained under French use until 1957, before being handed over to the German Armed Forces after almost 10 years of occupation . Under their management, the property was then renamed Rhein-Kaserne . At that time, the area covered approx. 23 ha.
use
The first units of the Bundeswehr to move into the Rhine barracks were two repair battalions and a heavy engineer battalion . Until 1995 the Army Support Command and temporarily also the Airborne Engineer Company 260 were housed in the Rhine barracks. Department III is responsible for army armament. The medical service command was also housed there; since October 1, 2012, the Bundeswehr medical service command set up as part of the restructuring of the Bundeswehr has had its headquarters here. The largest of the Central Institutes of the Medical Service of the Bundeswehr (ZInstSanBw Koblenz) is stationed in the Rhein-Kaserne, it is the main institute for human medicine . In 1998 it moved from the building complex of the Ernst Rodenwaldt Institute , as it was then called, to the Rhein-Kaserne on Zentralplatz . After the dissolution of the Central Institute of the Medical Service of the Bundeswehr on October 1, 2017, the barracks was used by Department A of the Institute for Preventive Medicine of the Bundeswehr .
The technical area north, which was separated from the actual barracks area by Herberichstrasse, was sold in the 1980s and houses were built on. Another area between the horse stables and the former officers' mess went to the Stabilus company in 2003 (this part was directly opposite the factory premises), which also continues to use the vehicle hangars that are still in this area. In the course of integrating the old Wallersheimer Weg into the factory premises, a new road was built along the current barracks fence.
As part of the realignment of the Bundeswehr , the newly established medical service command of the Bundeswehr was stationed in the Rhine barracks on October 2, 2012 . The five armed forces hospitals and the central institutes of the medical service report to him .
literature
- Wolfgang Klefisch: History of the Rhine barracks Koblenz. School Technical Troop 1, Koblenz u. a. 1988.
- Rüdiger Wischemann: The Koblenz Fortress. From the Roman fort and Prussia's strongest fortress to the largest garrison of the Bundeswehr. Rhenania, Koblenz 1978, p. 151.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The term Quartier suggests that it is occupied by hunters.
- ↑ See Wischemann. Here the barracks is referred to as Caserne Général Frère , although he is mistaken because this name means the Langemarck barracks .
- ↑ a b Karl Oster, Wolfgang Schütz: Koblenz of A-Z. New, enlarged edition. Rhenania-Fachverlag, Koblenz 1979, p. 105.
- ↑ Orders from the departments of the Army Office ( Memento from October 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Uwe Henning: Briefly introduced: The medical service command. In: www.sanitaetsdienst-bundeswehr.de. Bundeswehr, November 5, 2012, accessed on July 3, 2013 .
- ^ Information from the City of Koblenz about the relocation of Wallersheimer Weg in July 2003
- ↑ Koblenz becomes the control center for the medical service. In: Rhein-Zeitung , September 21, 2012.