Main medical depot Lorch-Rheingau

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Sanitary
main depot Lorch-Rheingau - SanHDp Lorch-Rheingau -

Coat of arms SanHpDp Lorch.jpg

internal association badge - the grapevine and the Mainz wheel were part of the coat of arms of the former Rheingau district . These symbols stand for the location, while the miner's lamp , the underground depot and the Aesculapian snake , indicate the tasks of the facility
active Oct. 1, 1975 to Dec. 31, 2007
Country Flag of Germany.svg Germany
Armed forces armed forces
Branch of service Medical service of the Bundeswehr
Type Underground depot
last position Lorch
Patron saint Saint Barbara

The main medical depot Lorch-Rheingau was a unit of the Central Medical Service of the German Armed Forces in Lorch .

Former main medical depot Lorch-Rheingau

history

In order to improve the economic situation of the municipality of Lorch am Rhein, talks with the German armed forces took place from 1957 to establish a barracks. Specifically, building land for a barracks facility, building land for depot facilities on and in the Ranselberg and in the Ranseler Forest, apartments for the Bundeswehr employees and a training area were offered. Negotiations with the Bundeswehr resulted in the creation of a barracks with 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 under the Tiefenbacher slope , across from the Waldeck ruins. 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.

During the Cold War , facilities should be optimally protected against the offensive weapons known up to then. Instead of building the medical depot under the Tiefenbacher Hang, planning began in 1969 for an expansion of the air raid protection systems in the east and west of the Rheingau barracks, which were still under construction, with the aim of connecting both systems and using them as an underground facility for the medical depot. Construction started in 1972. After the Wittlich medical depot was closed on July 1, 1975, the Lorch-Rheingau medical depot was set up. It had the task of storing, servicing, maintaining, delivering and taking back medical supplies for the Bundeswehr medical service. The first tunnels were already in use on October 1st, 1975. The official takeover of the tunnel system , as the first underground medical depot in Germany , was in May 1976.

The underground facility had great advantages over a conventional depot. In addition to optimal protection against air strikes, the natural geothermal energy contributed to the fact that medicines and medical products with low energy requirements could be stored permanently at 20C ° and optimal humidity. Even the building maintenance was much cheaper, since neither roofs nor external facades had to be maintained. In contrast, the construction costs were extremely high. The storage and retrieval of material was much more complex because of the long, narrow access roads. The area of ​​the underground facility was around 13,000 m², of which around 6,000 m² were pure storage space. The remaining area consisted of traffic routes, office buildings and technical facilities. The depot tunnels have a total length of approx. 2.3 kilometers. By 1979, an administration and workshop building as well as a transshipment hall were built in the approximately 7 hectare outdoor area. There were also two external satellite camps (SanMatALgr) in Brandoberndorf and Germersheim .

In the course of the massive restructuring of the Bundeswehr after reunification , on April 1, 1994 the medical depot became a main medical depot. As early as 1991 it was decided to dissolve the 5 anti-aircraft regiment stationed in Lorch . This made it possible to take over two accommodation buildings and the sports hall of the Rheingau barracks, which became vacant in 1993, for the extended task. The humanitarian and equipment aid was relocated from the Euskirchen sanitary depot to the former sports hall . The two external storage areas were also closed, but a new external storage area was added to the main equipment depot in Gemmerich . In 1995, the construction work to separate the main medical depot (SanHDp) from the former barracks, the current Wispertal industrial park , was completed. On September 30, 2000, the 25th anniversary was celebrated with an open house , the rush of visitors was enormous.

In June 2003 a medical supplies company was set up in the Lorch property . But already in November of the same year the liquidation of the entire Bundeswehr location Lorch was announced. In addition to the SanHDp Lorch-Rheingau, which was due to close on December 31, 2007, the main equipment depot in Lorch-Wipertal , which was closed on December 31, 2008, was affected . The San company set up two years earlier was relocated to Pfungstadt in 2005. On November 5, 2005, despite the set closing date, the 30th anniversary was celebrated on a small scale in a depressed mood. At the end of 2005, after the change of government in Berlin, the employees found new hope. Because the newly appointed Minister of Defense was Franz Josef Jung ( CDU ) and came from the Rheingau. In 2004 he had fought alongside the employees and the population for the preservation of the depots in the structurally weak Lorch. But the expectations for the continued existence of the depots were not fulfilled. The new defense minister held on to the closure of the facilities.

To support the medical depot, the depot handling train from the Lorch-Rheingau medical depot and the Lorch-Rheingau medical depot depot guard and security train were stationed here as equipment units. The location telecommunications system 415/403 also served the depot.

assignment

The order of the main medical depot Lorch last comprised the following points (status 2000):

  • Supply of the Bundeswehr with medical supplies d. H. with pharmaceuticals and medical products such as bandages, dental and surgical material, medical equipment e.g. B. Anesthesia, EKG and X-ray machines or even hospital furniture, stretchers, etc.
  • Review of medical supplies returned from the troops
  • Ensuring drug safety through visual inspection and laboratory testing
  • Technical maintenance, control and testing of stored medical equipment
  • Constant availability of emergency kits for fire disasters for 70 burners
  • Constant availability of an emergency kit for disaster operations
  • Maintenance and care of the depot's own vehicle fleet
  • Monitoring and updating of the vehicles fully equipped with medical equipment for NATO and UN missions in the depot
  • Processing and provision of medical supplies from the Bundeswehr's stocks for humanitarian aid all over the world
  • Supervision of visitor delegations from all over the world who are interested in humanitarian or equipment aid

Commanders

  • October 1, 1975 - June 30, 1980 Chief pharmacist Wolfgang Krämer
  • July 1, 1980 - December 31, 1992 Flotilla pharmacist Bernhard Maaß
  • 01.01.1993 - 31.10.1995 Chief Pharmacist Rolf Zink
  • November 1, 1995 - June 30, 1997 Chief Pharmacist Stefan Almeling
  • 07/01/1997 - 04/19/2000 Chief Pharmacist Dr. Oliver Onusseit
  • April 20, 2000 - December 18, 2001 Chief pharmacist Sonja Hengge
  • December 19, 2002 - March 26, 2004 Chief pharmacist Barbara Feld
  • March 27, 2004 - December 9, 2004 staff pharmacist Ansgar Nicolai
  • December 10, 2004 - December 31, 2007 Chief pharmacist Martina Krüger-Haberkamp

Dissolution and privatization

The liquidation phase began on July 1, 2007 and was completed on December 31, 2007 as planned. The processing office was the Bundeswehr material depot in Darmstadt. The final shutdown of the operating technology did not take place until August 31, 2009. Up until this point in time, the technical operation was still necessary, as the building control and telecommunications technology was inextricably linked with that of the main equipment depot in Lorch-Wispertal . After its liquidation was completed on December 31, 2008, all hazardous substances such as heating oil, oils, refrigerants, lead and nickel-cadmium batteries were systematically disposed of from all Lorcher Bundeswehr properties and the corresponding technical systems were finally shut down. The technical operations service of the Lorch branch of the Bundeswehrdienstleistungszentrum Mainz, which was still in existence up to this point , was also closed on August 31, 2009 and the last civilian technical staff were transferred to new jobs on September 1, 2009.

In the following years, the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks took over the property and tried to sell the facilities. However, this turned out to be difficult. Although the areas and structures were offered throughout Europe, it was only possible to sell the outer areas of the main medical depot to a shipping company and a winery. In the course of the refugee crisis , the haulier converted the building into an asylum collective accommodation, which the Rheingau-Taunus district has rented and still operates today.

The underground facility is still owned by the Bundeswehr. Due to the problems of marketing the underground facility, deconstruction in the form of backfilling with construction and road demolition material was considered, but was initially ruled out after examination. The dismantling relates only to the deinstallation of the installed technical equipment. In November 2019, the technical ceiling installation (cable trays, lamps, lines, ventilation ducts, etc.) in the four entrance tunnels was dismantled and disposed of by a specialist company.

  • Plan of the underground facility

  • Outer pressure gate of the vehicle lock in the main entrance to the tunnel system

  • Stollen 4 / "Acceptance and dispatch"

  • Traffic routes - "Long corridor" tunnel

  • Stollen 29 / Four of these cooling machines were used to dehumidify the underground system during the summer.

  • Stollen 30 / emergency power system consisting of three identical diesel generators from MAN.

  • Stollen 31 / control room

  • Gallery 3 / One of the four largest underground storage chambers

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Community Lorch am Rhein / Peter Griebel: From the Bundeswehr settlement to the Lorch district "Ranselberg". Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c 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 7, 2020 .
  3. ^ City of Lorch am Rhein: Integrated municipal development concept for the city of Lorch. 2013, accessed June 7, 2020 .
  4. ^ A b Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Oliver Bock: Bundeswehr lets Lorch down for the second time. November 27, 2003, accessed June 3, 2020 .
  5. ^ Hessian Ministry for Economics, Transport and Regional Development: Conversion in Hesse. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks BImA Koblenz: Conversion and more opportunities for investments 2013/14. Retrieved June 3, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b Wiesbadener Kurier / Jutta Schwiddessen: Expansion of the Lorcher industrial area Wispertal is being tackled again. August 26, 2016, accessed June 4, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Wiesbadener Kurier / Thorsten Stötzer: Discussions about refugee accommodation in Lorch have calmed down. December 29, 2016, accessed June 4, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Rheingau-Echo: Lorch wants to push sustainable tourism further, in: Fachbetriebe in der Region, special edition 2/2018, p. 22. Accessed June 7, 2020 .

literature

  • Medical depot Lorch-Rheingau , Festschrift / Brochure for the 10th anniversary, 1985.
  • 20 years of the main medical depot Lorch-Rheingau , commemorative publication / brochure for the 20th anniversary. Publisher: Mönch-Verlag Koblenz / Bonn for the main medical depot Lorch-Rheingau, 1990.
  • 25 years of the main medical depot Lorch-Rheingau , commemorative publication / brochure for the 25th anniversary. Editor: Lothar Fölbach Verlag Munich for the main medical depot Lorch-Rheingau, 2000.

Web links

Commons : Sanitätshauptdepot Lorch (Rheingau)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 57.9 ″  N , 7 ° 49 ′ 5 ″  E