Sixt-von-Armin barracks
 Sixt-von-Armin barracks
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Headquarters of the Sixt-von-Armin barracks |
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| country | Germany | ||
| local community | Wetzlar | ||
| Coordinates : | 50 ° 33 ' N , 8 ° 29' E | ||
| Opened | 1935-1936 | ||
| Old barracks names | |||
| 1936–1945 1945–1950 1951–1956 1957–1963 |
Message barracks Lloyd Barracks Caserne Lloyd message barracks |
  
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| Machine Gun battalion 2 news department 9 II./Artillerieregiment 45 Panzergrenadier battalion 15 Panzerbataillon 15 Panzergrenadier battalion 133 Panzerbataillon 134 Panzer engineer company 130 3./Versorgungsbataillon 136 training company 4/5 supply company 130 repair company 130 supply training company 7/5 driving school group Panzerkompanie 134 driving school group Wetzlar 1 Fahrschul group Wetzlar 3 Material Features Medical area 47/7 Dentist group 418/2 Troop doctor Wetzlar |
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Location of the Sixt von Armin barracks in Hesse |
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The Sixt-von-Armin-Kaserne is a former barracks in the west of the core city of Wetzlar . The preserved staff building is a listed building . Together with the Spilburg barracks in the south of the Wetzlar core city, over 4500 military and 800 civilian employees were active in the city, so that Wetzlar functioned as the largest garrison town in Hesse.
Between 1935 and 1936, two barracks were built in the Silhöfer Aue below Kalsmunt Castle as part of the armament of the Wehrmacht . Area A was used by Machine Gun Battalion 2 from September 1936, and Intelligence Department 9 had already moved into Area B in March 1936. From November 1938, the 2nd Division of Artillery Regiment 45 followed.
After the end of the Second World War until 1947, the barracks in Wetzlar were initially used as a camp for liberated and refugees. Then the US armed forces took over the facility as Lloyd Barracks , before French units moved into the Caserne Lloyd in 1951 . In 1957 the Bundeswehr took over the barracks.
The 15 Panzer Grenadier Battalion, which was set up in Grafenwöhr on August 1, 1956, moved into the barracks in March 1957. In the same month, Panzerbataillon 15, which had also been formed in Grafenwöhr on September 3, 1956, was stationed in what was later to become the Sixt von Armin barracks in Wetzlar.
With Army Structure II , Panzerbataillon 134 was formed from Panzer Battalion 15 on January 2, 1959, and Panzer Grenadier Battalion 133 in March 1959 from Panzer Grenadier Battalion 15. Both units remained stationed in the barracks in Wetzlar.
On July 1, 1962, the 3rd / Supply Battalion 136 was stationed in the barracks, which was reclassified to the Repair Company 130 on November 15, 1972.
On November 1, 1959, the tank pioneer company 130 from parts of the tank pioneer battalion 5 was set up in the barracks in Wetzlar.
In 1964 the barracks were finally named after the general of the infantry and Wetzlar honorary citizen Friedrich Sixt von Armin .
The training company 4/5, which was set up in the Stegskopf camp near Daaden in the Westerwald on December 1, 1961 , moved to the Sixt-von-Armin barracks on November 21, 1965.
With Army Structure III , supply battalion 136 was reclassified on November 14, 1972. On November 15, 1972 in the Sixt-von-Armin-Kaserne the supply company 130 and the repair company 130 emerged.
On November 18, 1980, the training company 4/5 was renamed to the replenishment training company 7/5. On September 30, 1988 this company was decommissioned.
Since the mid-1980s, the driving school groups Wetzlar 1 and Wetzlar 3 as well as the tank battalion 134 were stationed in the barracks. The first two groups mentioned were dissolved on March 31, 1994, while the decommissioning of the driving school group Panzerbataillon 134 took place on September 30, 1992.
For medical care, the medical area 47/7 in the barracks was equipped with material, the troop doctor Wetzlar was stationed and the dentist group 418/2 had been active since April 1, 1981.
The end of the Cold War gradually brought the end of the Sixt-von-Armin barracks. First, on March 31, 1992, the Panzerpionierkompanie 130 was decommissioned.
On September 30, 1992, Panzergrenadier Battalion 133 and Panzer Battalion 134 were dissolved.
Finally, on March 31, 1993, the maintenance company 130 and the supply company 130 ended.
Subsequently, the Sixt-von-Armin barracks was abandoned by the Bundeswehr. The site was then converted to a commercial and residential area . Today, as the "Westend" quarter, it forms part of the Silhöfer Aue / Westend district .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Irene Jung: Wetzlar. A little city history. Sutton Verlag 2010, p. 112
- ↑ Irene Jung: Wetzlar. A little city history. Sutton Verlag 2010, p. 113
- ↑ USAREUR Aerial Photos Wetzlar 1950
- ^ Article "The military becomes visible again" by Heike Pöllmitz from Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung from October 21, 2014
- ↑ Federal Archives
- ↑ a b c d e f Sixt-von-Armin barracks. In: Bundeswehr location database . Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr , accessed on April 12, 2020 .
- ^ History of the tank battalion 134
- ↑ Federal Archives
- ^ History of the tank battalion 134
- ↑ Federal Archives
- ↑ Federal Archives
- ↑ Federal Archives
- ^ History of the training company 4/5
- ^ History of the training company 4/5
- ^ The 5th Panzer Division under Army Structure 4
- ↑ Peter Blume, Volker Suhany: The history of the Wetzlar garrison. From Waking to Zap - 1818 to 1993. 2nd edition, Wetzlar and Neu-Isenburg 2012, p. 68
- ^ History of the tank battalion 134
- ^ The 5th Panzer Division under Army Structure 4
- ^ Gesellschaft für Personalbetreuung mbH, Bad Homburg / Höhe (editor, publisher): Urban planning framework for the area "Sixt-von-Armin-Kaserne" Wetzlar. Conversion of areas and buildings that were previously used by the military. Rohleder, Gerhard (author, project manager), Bad Homburg (Germany), self-published 1993
- ↑ Conversion in Hessen, Newsletter 10, May 2012, PDF
- ^ Article "The military becomes visible again" by Heike Pöllmitz from Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung from October 21, 2014
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Sixt-von-Armin-Kaserne In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen