Rheingau barracks

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GermanyFlag of Germany (state) .svg Rheingau barracks

Rheingau barracks

country Germany
local community Lorch on the Rhine
Coordinates : 50 ° 3 '  N , 7 ° 49'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '2 "  N , 7 ° 49' 18"  E
Opened 1965
Workforce 1000 soldiers and 600 civilian employees
Formerly stationed units
4th / Pioneer Battalion 5
NBC Defense Company 140
Lorch Driving School Group
Air Defense Battalion 5 Air
Defense Regiment 5
Medical Equipment 43/3 Tank Pioneer Training Train
8/5
Dentist Group 410/2 Dental Station
(Terr) H 437
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Rheingau barracks (Hesse)
Rheingau barracks

Location of the Rheingau barracks in Hesse

The Rheingau barracks was a barracks of the Bundeswehr in Lorch am Rhein , which from 1965 to 1993 mainly housed the 5 anti-aircraft battalion and the 5 anti-aircraft regiment of the 5th Panzer Division . It was about 17 acres. A total of 1,000 soldiers and 600 civilian workers were stationed. In the neighborhood north of the barracks there was the Lorch-Wispertal depot on 37 hectares , which was built as the (main) equipment depot of the Bundeswehr between 1962 and 1974 under the Ranselberg, as well as the Ransel ammunition depot on the Ranselberg and located on 25, 4 hectare ammunition depot with Linnesit underground facility. Immediately next to the Rheingau barracks, the 20-hectare (main) medical depot Lorch-Rheingau of the Bundeswehr was built between 1972 and 1975 with another underground facility adjacent to the south in the area of ​​the Lehrener Kopf.

Construction and usage history

Although after the Second World War and the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, the reconstruction brought an economic upswing (so-called economic miracle ), the community of Lorch am Rhein initially did not benefit from this. Many residents therefore commuted to work in neighboring areas. With the formation of the Bundeswehr in 1957, the municipality started talks with the aim of establishing a barracks in order to contribute to an economic improvement on site and to create employment opportunities. Specifically, building land for a barracks, depots and apartments for the Bundeswehr employees as well as a training area were offered. The negotiations with the German Armed Forces led to the construction of a barracks facility with a self-protection bunker, a training area with a shooting range, an ammunition storage facility, underground ammunition depots, an army mixed depot for equipment, food and clothing, a partial depot for fuel with a truck loading point and a medical depot. In addition, the construction of a new residential area was considered. After the magistrate had already approved the deployment of the Bundeswehr, the municipal council also approved this plan on May 11, 1959. In 1960 the Hessian State Building Administration set up a building administration in Lorch, which was responsible for the planning and construction of the entire project.

The Rheingau barracks was completed in 1965, so that on September 1, 1965, the 5 anti-aircraft battalion was able to move from the Augusta barracks in Koblenz to its new location in Lorch am Rhein. This unit was set up on August 1, 1956 as anti-tank artillery battalion 5 in Grafenwoehr in the Upper Palatinate. She had moved to Koblenz-Pfaffendorf in July 1957. At the same time it was renamed the anti-aircraft battalion 5 and was subordinated to the 5th Panzer Division. After being stationed in Lorch, the battalion to the 5 anti-aircraft regiment was enlarged on July 1, 1979. The regiment was finally disbanded on March 31, 1993. In December 1965, members of the armed forces and their families moved into the first 63 apartments in the Ranselberg district. A further 130 apartments had been completed by the end of 1967.

In 1967, the NBC Defense Company 140 was set up in the barracks. However, this unit was relocated to the Niederauerbach barracks in Zweibrücken on March 1, 1971 . There she was on April 1, 1971 in the 2./ABC-Abwehrbataillon 900.

On April 1, 1972, the Lorch-Wispertal equipment depot, built underground in Ranselberg, began its work.

On April 26, 1974 the 4th / Pioneer Battalion 5 was formed in the Rheingau barracks and remained stationed here until it was disbanded on March 31, 1991.

The Lorch-Rheingau medical depot started its work on July 1, 1975.

In 1979 the tank engineer training train 8/5 was set up in the Rheingau barracks.

The Lorch driving school group started their service on January 1, 1986 and stayed here until the Rheingau barracks closed in 1993.

For medical care, the medical area 43/3 was equipped with material and the dental station of the Territorial Army 437 was set up from April 1, 1977 to March 31, 1981, which on April 1, 1981 became the 410/2 dentist group.

With the end of the Cold War and the outcome of the two-plus-four negotiations, in which the troop strength of the reunified Germany was set at 370,000 soldiers, the Rheingau barracks and the units stationed here came to an end. The decision announced in 1991 led to the closure of the barracks in 1993.

However, the medical depot with the underground facility Lorch-Rheingau, the underground equipment depot Lorch-Wispertal and the ammunition depots should continue to exist. On October 1, 1993, the Lorch-Wispertal equipment depot was renamed the Lorch-Wispertal main equipment depot. The medical depot became the main medical depot on April 1, 1994. It was separated from the Rheingau barracks because the rest of the barracks grounds were to be used for civilian purposes. On December 31, 2007, the main medical depot and its underground facility were closed. It was followed on December 31, 2008 by the main equipment depot with the Ransel and Oberlinesitt ammunition stores.

The shooting range 432/1 at the Lorch site training area, which was built on April 1, 1972, remained in place until November 30, 2000.

conversion

With the resolution of the city council on May 25, 1993, the municipality of Lorch drew up a development plan for the “Wispertal industrial area”. Essentially, this envisaged the conversion of the Rheingau barracks into an industrial area. For the area still used by the medical depot, a special area was set as a barracks area. After the installation procedure had been carried out, the development plan was approved by the Lorch city council on June 22, 1994. In 1998 and 2002, two minor changes to the development plan followed. Within four years of the barracks being closed, the land could be sold to private investors and the land could be used for civil purposes. In 2020 there will be around 20 businesses on the former barracks site, including a freight forwarding company, a sanitary technology company, a mechanical engineering company, a bakery, a hotel, a winery, car repair shops and a paint shop. 2.3 million euros have been invested in the conversion.

Even before the main medical depot and the main equipment depot with the ammunition depot were closed, the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks was looking for investors for civil re-use. However, this turned out to be difficult. Two buyers were found in 2014 for parts of the main medical depot. A winery acquired 3,000 square meters and a shipping company 50,000 square meters. An owner rented the building of the former medical main depot for several years as refugee accommodation in the Rheingau-Taunus district. The reception center started operations in May 2015 and accommodated up to 275 asylum seekers. Against this a protest arose in Lorch, which however subsided again. In October 2016, the Lorch city council passed a resolution for a project-related development plan and a development contract was to be concluded with the new owners. However, due to a dispute over the construction of a public road and the renovation of a bridge to connect a mill, the process stalled. On May 9, 2017, an agreement was reached and a new resolution was passed. On August 23, 2018, the third amendment to the Wispertal industrial area development plan was approved by the city council. According to this, areas for a commercial area, for a mixed area and for forest are shown in the planning area of ​​the former sanitary main depot. The attempts to market the underground facility of the medical depot and the main equipment depot in Lorch-Wispertal were unsuccessful. For the main medical depot, dismantling in the form of backfilling with construction and road demolition material was considered. Both depots are now to be dismantled.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ District economic development Rheingau-Taunus / community Lorch am Rhein: Lorch am Rhein - structural analysis of the city. 2011, accessed June 3, 2020 .
  3. a b c d e Lorch am Rhein / Peter Griebel: From the Bundeswehr settlement to the Lorch district of "Ranselberg". Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  4. a b c d e f g h i j k Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr: location database of the Bundeswehr in the Federal Republic of Germany as well as the training grounds used by the Bundeswehr abroad. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  5. Federal Agency for Civic Education: Information on Civic Education No. 250/2015. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
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  7. ^ City of Lorch / Urban Planning Working Group Dr. Thünker and Dr. Heckenbücker: 1st change in the development plan of the Wispertal industrial area. June 29, 1998, accessed June 3, 2020 .
  8. ^ City of Lorch / Urban Planning Working Group Dr. Thünker and Dr. Heckenbücker: 2nd amendment to the development plan of the Wispertal industrial area. October 15, 2002, accessed June 3, 2020 .
  9. a b Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks BImA Koblenz: Conversion and more opportunities for investments 2013/14. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  10. ^ Hessian Ministry for Economics, Transport and Regional Development: Conversion in Hesse. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  11. a b Wiesbadener Kurier / Jutta Schwiddessen: Expansion of the Lorcher industrial area Wispertal is being tackled again. August 26, 2016, accessed June 4, 2020 .
  12. Wiesbadener Kurier / Thorsten Stötzer: Discussions about refugee accommodation in Lorch have calmed down. December 29, 2016, accessed June 4, 2020 .
  13. Wiesbadener Kurier / Barbara Dietel: Development plan for the Lorcher industrial area in the Wispertal is on hold for the time being. February 9, 2017, accessed June 3, 2020 .
  14. Wiesbadener Kurier / Thorsten Stötzer: Development plan for future industrial park approved by a narrow majority in Lorch city parliament. May 11, 2017, accessed June 3, 2020 .
  15. City of Lorch / planning office Holger Fischer: 3rd amendment to the development plan of the Wispertal industrial area. August 23, 2018, accessed June 3, 2020 .
  16. Rheingau-Echo: Lorch wants to push sustainable tourism further, in: Fachbetriebe in der Region, special edition 2/2018, p. 22. Accessed June 7, 2020 .