Base Flensburg-Mürwik

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Lettering naval base Flensburg-Mürwik on the wall to Sonwik out
Sonwik with the white main building of the torpedo station and the tower with the mast of the strategic reconnaissance
The Red Castle on the Sea of the Mürwik Naval School, built in 1910
Sachsenwald the first minesweeping squadron discontinued from Flensburg's Naval Base (Photo: 1980)

Base Flensburg-Mürwik (formerly also: Naval Base Flensburg-Mürwik ) is an urban district of the Flensburg district of Mürwik , which used to be almost congruent with the local naval base and is therefore still used synonymously with it today.

After the end of the Cold War , the naval base was closed and only two Bundeswehr schools remained , so that large parts of the city district are now civilly inhabited. The area is apparently only rarely referred to as a base by the Navy these days.

history

Creation of the base

The nucleus of the Mürwik district is located in the area of ​​the city district . Today's eponymous base emerged from the 1901/1902 torpedo station of the Imperial Navy on the Mürwiker Bucht, which in the following decades expanded structurally beyond the fjord slopes . Shortly after the establishment, SMS Blücher was stationed permanently in 1902 , after having regularly visited the Flensburg Fjord for torpedo target practice. However, their cauldron exploded in November 1907. 16 people died in this accident. In 1910 the Mürwik Naval School was established . Around 4,000 soldiers were stationed in Mürwik at this time. In the years 1925 to 1928, the marine settlement (Flensburg-Mürwik) in Kelmstraße and the park courtyard were built as living space for officers and NCOs. After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the number of officer candidates rose significantly. In the period that followed, three barracks camps were built as a temporary measure to accommodate the increased number of trainees, including the trampoline roof camp that is still preserved today . Between 1933 and 1939 numerous other buildings for the torpedo and news school were built . In 1936/1937 the school building of the marine sports school was built , east of the naval school. At the same time, in 1937, the marine riding school at Twedter Mark was established . In 1939 over 10,000 soldiers were temporarily stationed at the base. Measures to increase capacity and strengthen defense capabilities have been taken. At the end of the Second World War , various units were relocated to the base in the course of the retreat, for example the Armaments Inspection I from Königsberg and the naval intelligence service . The Mürwik special area set up at the beginning of May 1945 extended beyond the base and housed the provisional seat of government of the last Reich government under Karl Dönitz (at the marine sports school) .

The period after the Second World War until the end of the Cold War

After the Second World War, the buildings were used in different ways, as a customs school, as refugee accommodation, as barracks for British and Norwegian soldiers. The Flensburg-Mürwik naval hospital , which was created together with the construction of the naval school, continued to be used as a hospital . On the edge of the naval school was the outdoor swimming pool that was used by the people of Flensburg. It was demolished sometime after 1965 due to disrepair. Previously, in 1963, the municipal indoor swimming pool in the Bahnhofsviertel in the southern part of the city had been opened. From 1950 to 1956, a large part of the naval school was the Flensburg customs school , which had been established in Flensburg in 1938. In 1956 the navy needed the building again and the customs school left Flensburg. The inner German border had grown in importance and the Cold War had begun.

With the establishment of the German Navy in the 1950s, the largely military use of the building units began again. During this time , the naval telecommunications school was set up in the buildings of the news school above the fjord slope on Mürwiker Strasse . The naval school began teaching again. The port facilities on the water were also used again for military purposes. This lower area (today Sonwik ) didn't have a special name and was therefore only named as the Mürwik naval base , although this term actually meant the entire area.

Since June 1955, the naval telecommunications staff 70 was to be found on a site at Twedter Mark , which had another location at Tremmerup . On October 1, 1957, the command of the Schnellboot (KdoS) was permanently set up at the Flensburg base. The seat of the Schnellbootflotilla was at Mürwiker Straße 183-185 . The large association was led by a sea ​​captain . In 1967 the command of the Schnellboot was renamed the Schnellbootflotille . In 1994 the Schnellbootflotilla was relocated to the Warnemünde naval base and later disbanded. The 3rd Schnellbootgeschwader was located in Flensburg since 1957 and was disbanded after the end of the Cold War in the 1990s. In addition, the 1st minesweeping squadron had been in Flensburg since 1956 , which was subordinate to the flotilla of the mine forces at the Olpenitz naval base . In the 1990s, this squadron was relocated and later disbanded. In 1962, the mineslayer squadron (MLG) was set up in Flensburg, but was disbanded 10 years later. Of the destroyer flotilla that was subordinate to Wilhelmshaven , the 3rd destroyer squadron was in Flensburg from 1960 to 1967 . It was then moved to Kiel and dissolved in 1981. Also belonging to the destroyer flotilla, the fleet service squadron had been at the base since 1968 . It was also disbanded in the early 1990s.

In 1971 the officers' home in Swinemünder Strasse 9 was built as a care facility for the base. 1980 to 1983 the "Soldiers' Home Flensburg-Mürwik", today "OASE - Mürwik Meeting Point", was built below the Finisberg on the edge of the Volkspark near Kielseng (near Sonwik) to look after the soldiers at the base. The inn in the soldiers 'home and the officers' home on Swinemünder Strasse still exist today. In 1985 the riding school, which was only used for civilian purposes after 1945, was abandoned. Soon after, the conversion of the base began. In 1998 the naval port was abandoned by the German armed forces.

Conversion until today

At the beginning of the new millennium, the buildings at the marine harbor including the Württemberg bridge and the Blücher bridge were rebuilt. The Sonwik harbor district with its marina was created . The development on the edge of the base on Mürwiker Strasse and Fördestrasse was also used for civil purposes. The troop crew bunker on Mürwiker Strasse, dating from the Second World War, was rebuilt in 2009 and received a penthouse on the roof . The adjoining headquarters of the Schnellbootflotille was also used for civilian purposes. The small barracks of the supply command 600 in Swinemünder Straße 13, which was vacated in June 1994 and consisted of four buildings, has been demolished since 2011. The staff building of the supply command from 1943 was also torn down. The city justified the demolition with the fact that the cultural monument did not appear in urban planning and thus did not influence the cityscape. A senior citizens' center with 80 German Red Cross residential units was then built on the cleared area . The company building from 1965, which was initially not demolished and originally served as crew accommodation, was to be expanded according to the original plans to become the service building of the DRK complex. This did not happen, it was also demolished to expand the residential complex. The nearby Parkhof residential complex , which was built in the 1920s for members of the Navy, and other buildings on the edge of the base are also used today for civil purposes. The proportion of the civilian population increased in the course of the conversion.

As a result of the conversion, the military base shrank to two schools, namely the Mürwik Naval School and the School for Strategic Reconnaissance of the Bundeswehr (initially armed forces base , since 2017 Cyber ​​and Information Room Command ), which was set up in the old news school in 2003. The Osbectal lies between the two schools , but their two areas are connected. The boat harbor of the Naval School Mürwik remained with the school despite the abandonment of the neighboring naval port. It also owns the staff of the Mürwik Naval School , at Fördestraße 18. The Christ Church, which is a garrison church , is still located on Fördestraße on the edge of the city district . The center of the Mürwik district, the Twedter Plack, is located on the eastern edge of the city district . Another piece to the east, on the outskirts of Mürwik, is Meierwik, where the fleet command that is currently undergoing conversion can be found. Together with this, the military base Flensburg-Mürwik, the so-called Bundeswehr base Flensburg-Glücksburg, forms . The oldest on the site was Lieutenant Colonel Manfred Saust in 2014.

However, the conversion has not yet been fully completed. The naval hospital stands empty and is at the mercy of decay. Today's naval medical center Flensburg-Mürwik (SanZentrum Flensburg) of the German armed forces is located in the Tirpitz barracks (see Medical Command and Medical Service Support Command ).

Telecommunications area 91 , which had grown out of naval telecommunications staff 70 in 2002 , was dissolved again on March 21, 2013. Large parts of the area went to Stadum as a new battalion of 911 electronic warfare (EloKaBtl 911) (cf. EloKa telecommunications troops ). The property of the telecommunications area on the eastern edge of the base at Twedter Mark was to be handed over to the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks . Due to an intended temporary use, the handover to the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks did not take place. Instead, the neighboring Federal Motor Transport Authority took over the premises as a branch.

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ City districts, published by the City of Flensburg ( Memento from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
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  4. ^ Lutz Wilde: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 126
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  22. ↑ The cultural monument list of the district and Lutz Wilde list another building as an officer's home on the site of the Mürwiker Strasse 201–203 property . Originally said building should have served as an ensign building. See Lutz Wilde: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 544
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Coordinates: 54 ° 48 ′ 41.5 ″  N , 9 ° 27 ′ 23.2 ″  E