Saarburg barracks
 Saarburg barracks
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| country | Germany | ||
| local community | Landsberg am Lech | ||
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 2 ' N , 10 ° 52' E | ||
| Opened | 1899-1905 | ||
| owner | City of Landsberg am Lech | ||
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9th KB Field Artillery Regiment 7th (Bavarian) Artillery Regiment Air Force Supply Regiment 3 Missile Squadrons 1 74th Field Artillery Detachment ( 59th Ordnance Brigade ) 5./FlaRakGrp 22 |
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Location of the Saarburg barracks in Bavaria |
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The Saarburg Kaserne was a barracks of the Bundeswehr in St. Catherine suburb in Landsberg am Lech . It was named after the Lorraine town of Saarburg on the upper Saar .
The barracks was built as an artillery barracks between 1900 and 1905 for the 9th Field Artillery Regiment of the Bavarian Army . After the regiment returned from World War I , it was demobilized in Landsberg . Remnants of the regiment took part in the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic as a free corps .
After the reorganization of the Bavarian Reichswehr associations . The Second was Battalion of the 7th Artillery Regiment with two mountain artillery - batteries in the barracks stationed. In 1927 the barracks became the southernmost naval base of the Reichsmarine when the naval intelligence center south was established here .
As part of the armament of the Wehrmacht , the previous artillery barracks were renamed Saarburg barracks in memory of the Battle of Saarburg and the 63rd artillery regiment of the Wehrmacht was quartered in the barracks. The reference to the Saar in the name can also be understood as a propaganda reference to the annexation of the Saar area to the German Reich in 1935.
After Landsberg was occupied by the 7th US Army at the end of the war in 1945, the Landsberg DP camp of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was set up in the Saarburg barracks and existed until 1950.
As part of the rearmament , the 3rd Air Force Supply Regiment was set up in the barracks in 1958 , and after a short time it was relocated to the nearby Welfen barracks . In 1963, the preparation of the carried missile squadron 1 (FKG1) and the US Army stationed parts of the 74th Field Artillery Detachment ( 59th Ordnance Brigade ) in the barracks. Due to the INF contract , FKG 1 was dissolved on December 31, 1991. The 5th anti-aircraft missile group 22 (5./FlaRakGrp 22) was temporarily relocated to the barracks until it was relocated to the Kaufbeuren air base. In 1993 the barracks were closed.
In 1989, Anton Posset and the Landsberg Citizens' Association initiated the installation of a memorial plaque at the former entrance of the DP camp at what was then Saarburg barracks. Their inscription reminded of the area used by the Wehrmacht before 1945 and later by the Bundeswehr of one of the first DP camps that was exclusively reserved for Jewish displaced persons. Colonel a. D. Irving Heymont, the first commandant of the camp, donated the plaque, the construction of which was supported by both the city of Landsberg and the Bundeswehr. The main speaker was Dr. Abraham J. Peck of the American Jewish Archives, who was born in the camp. Another speaker was Dr. Simon Snopkowski , a former resident of the camp and at that time president of the Jewish religious communities in Bavaria.
The former barracks was largely renovated and now serves as a residential and service center ( Landsberg tax office ). The officer's casino , a listed building, served as accommodation for the Quere cultural project .
literature
- Angelika Eder: Fleeting homeland: Jewish displaced persons in Landsberg am Lech 1945 to 1950 . Munich: Uni-Dr., 1998 ISBN 978-3-87821-307-9 Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 1996
- Angelika Eder: Jewish Displaced Persons in everyday German life. A regional study from 1945 to 1950 , in: Fritz Bauer Institute (Ed.): Survived and on the move: Jewish Displaced Persons in post-war Germany . 1997 yearbook on the history and impact of the Holocaust. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1997, pp. 163–187 (excerpt)
- Anton Posset et. al .: The Jewish new beginning after the Shoah - the future went from the Landsberg DP camp - Landsberg 1945 - 1950, special issue 6, publisher (ed.): Citizens' Association Landsberg in the 20th Century , Landsberg, 1996, ISBN 3-9803775-5 -5 .
Web links
- City archive of Landsberg am Lech
- American units in Landsberg
- Information on the Landsberg DP camp: The future of the Landsberg DP camp came from Anton Posset at the Landsberg Citizens' Association in the 20th century or at the European Holocaust Memorial Foundation: The Landsberg DP camp