Ruhrland barracks
.svg){kind=small} Ruhrland barracks
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Gate of the Ruhrland barracks, 2007 |
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| country | Germany | ||
| today | New housing estate | ||
| local community | Food - copper turning | ||
| Coordinates : | 51 ° 23 ' N , 7 ° 5' E | ||
| Opened | 1937-1938 | ||
| owner | All construction | ||
| Old barracks names | |||
| 1938–1945 1945–1957 1964–1994 |
Flakkaserne Kupferdreh Crookenden Barracks Ruhrland barracks |
  
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| Luftwaffe 41 Fd Regt RA Luftwaffe Anti-Aircraft Battalion 41 Supply Battalion 206 |
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Location of the Ruhrland barracks in North Rhine-Westphalia |
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The last Ruhrland barracks called military barracks was 1938-1994 on the high plateau of the Phoenix Mountain in Essen district Kupferdreh .
history
In February 1936, the Reich Aviation Ministry issued an order to build a flak protection center in Essen-Kupferdreh. In February 1937, construction of the barracks began. The inauguration followed on March 20, 1938.
On March 23, 1945, there was a bomb and gun raid on the barracks, which also housed a hospital . 132 people (wounded, sick, sisters of the DRK, medical soldiers, flak helpers, doctors and foreign workers) died. On March 25, 1945, the pastor of the Catholic community in Dilldorf, Pastor Pfeiffer, buried 124 dead in the bomb craters . In the summer of 1945 they were transferred to the Dilldorf cemetery.
On August 7, 1957, the British soldiers stationed in the barracks since 1945 withdrew. In the spring of 1958, the air defense battalion 41 of the German Air Force moved into the Kupferdreher barracks.
In 1964, the Kupferdreher barracks were given the name "Ruhrland barracks". In the following years the barracks that I was home . Air Force Supply Regiment 5 (with an Air Force fuel depot, a motor vehicle transport squadron and an Air Force first aid squadron), which was replaced in 1981 by the 1st Air Force Training Regiment 5 (later 1) and the Bundeswehr Sports Promotion Group .
Furthermore, the Army Supply Battalion 206 with its staff and four companies was stationed here until it moved to Unna-Königsborn in 1968 .
In September 1993 the Federal Ministry of Defense announced that the Ruhrland barracks would finally be dissolved on June 30, 1994. On March 11, 1994, the solemn pledge of the recruits took place for the last time . The 250 soldiers who made their pledge of loyalty that day were the last of a total of 30,000 soldiers trained in copper turning.
On July 14, 1995, Allbau bought the 169,679 m² barracks area. Together with the planning office of the city of Essen and the Verein Bürgerschaft Kupferdreh , Allbau AG called on the citizens of Kupferdreher to look for a suitable name for the new residential area. The result is the Dilldorfer Höhe . This name is misleading, however, as the settlement is not in Dilldorf , but in the Hinsbeck district.
From 1995 to 1999 the barracks were completely demolished and the housing estate built. The history of the Ruhrland barracks was told on May 7, 2006 by the Bürgerschaft Kupferdreh e. V. with a memorial plaque on the Dilldorfer Höhe. The memorial plaques are part of the Essen Monument Paths project .
See also
literature
- Christian Breuer, Detlef Hopp: In front of the barracks. In: Detlef Hopp (Ed.): Traces. Discovering, reading and understanding. News from the city archeology of Essen . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8375-0888-8 , pp. 68–70