Tomburg barracks

Tomburg barracks
country	Germany
local community	Rheinbach
Coordinates :	50 ° 37 '  N , 6 ° 56'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 37 '4 "  N , 6 ° 55' 50"  E
Opened	before 1945
Workforce	720 posts
Stationed troops
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Formerly stationed units
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Location of the Tomburg barracks in North Rhine-Westphalia

The Tomburg barracks is a barracks of the Bundeswehr at the Rheinbach location . It houses the Bundeswehr Operations Center IT System (BtrbZ IT-SysBw, BITS) and Cyber ​​Operations Center (ZCO), as well as parts of the Bundeswehr Cyber ​​Security Center (ZCSBw) and the Bundeswehr Information Technology Command (KdoITBw) .

location

The Tomburg barracks that after the district Wormersdorf located Tomburg is named, is located within the district of the left bank town Rheinbach at the foot of the Eifel in the Rhein-Sieg district and is one of the smaller military barracks objects Germany. The property can be reached via the main entrance Münstereifeler Straße 75.

history

Even before the Bundeswehr was founded, what is now the barracks area was used by the Belgian guest forces at the time . On July 5, 1956, the barracks camp was handed over by the Belgians to the Bonn site administration. The barracks initially operated under the name "Lager Rheinbach" until it was given the current name "Tomburg-Kaserne" in 1968. In 1957 the guard battalion at the Federal Ministry of Defense (WachBtl BMVg), the training music corps of the Bundeswehr and the military police training company were housed there. The first unit that was set up in Rheinbach was the telecommunications management company BMVg. Since then, soldiers of the Bundeswehr have been part of the face of the city - regardless of the numerous closings of Bundeswehr properties, reductions in staff numbers and structural reforms. In the year of reunification in 1990, the first cross-border telecommunications connections between the highest command of the Bundeswehr and the Ministry for National Defense of the GDR ( Struzberg barracks ) were made available from here.

Troops / offices

The following compilation of units / departments shows a brief overview of the units / departments that have been based there:

coat of arms	Department	Organizational area	Period	Remarks
	Cyber ​​Operations Center (ZCO)	CIR	since 2018	subject to the KSA.
	Operations center IT system of the Bundeswehr (BtrbZ IT-SysBw)	CIR	since 2013	directly subordinate to the KdoITBw
	Sanitary supply center Rheinbach	ZSanDstBw	unknown	no longer represented at the location
	Strategic Reconnaissance Command	CIR	2002-2018	initially the whole command (until 2007), lastly the CNO department until the reorganization / outsourcing as ZCO
	Command support command of the Bundeswehr	SKB	2013-2014	Deployment department
	Armed Forces Support Command	SKB	2002–2012	Management support department
	IT office	armor	2002-2010	Just pieces
	Command Support Brigade 900	army	1994-1996	Reclassified to Command Support Regiment 28 and relocated to Mechernich .
	Office for Telecommunication and Information Systems of the Bundeswehr	ZMilDBw / SKB	1990-2002	Successor to the telecommunications office of the Bundeswehr
	Telecommunications office of the Bundeswehr	ZMilDBw	1982-1990
	Telecommunications Battalion 910	army	1964-1994
	Command telecommunications company	army	1957-1964
	Guard battalion at the Federal Ministry of Defense	army	1957-1959
	Military police training company	army	1957-1958	Initially belonged to the guard battalion, was transferred to the military police battalion BMVg.
	Training music corps of the Bundeswehr	army	1957-1959	Initially part of the guard battalion, on June 1, 1959, it was renamed the Bundeswehr Staff Music Corps , spun off and relocated to Siegburg .
	Association of the Belgian Armed Forces in Germany		1945–1957

Regional integration

The service flag of the Bundeswehr has to give way to the white flag regularly at the “Rhenish Carnival” when the overwhelming force of fools storms the barracks and takes the senior officer hostage.

Even if it is getting more and more difficult to win and train soldiers for the "defense of the Tomburg barracks", the tradition has been held for over 50 years in order to maintain and further strengthen the bond with the Rheinbach population.

Based on the resolution of the Rheinbach City Council and the approval by the commander of the Bundeswehr Command Support Command (now: Bundeswehr Information Technology Command) from the end of 2013, the sponsorship between the City of Rheinbach and the Bundeswehr IT System Operations Center (BITS) to be sealed. The five-year existence of this partnership between the city and BITS was celebrated on September 24, 2019 with a ceremony in the Rheinbach town hall.

Web links

• Official website Rheinbach
• Jörg Schüren: Scharping praises the Rheinbach soldiers. Federal Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping visited the Tomburg barracks. General-Anzeiger (Bonn), August 2, 2001 . 
• Robert Thomas (city archivist): Feldjäger collection in Rheinbach. November 12, 2010 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BMVg: The armed forces of the Bundeswehr in Germany. October 2011, p. 103.
2. ↑ Welcome to the Rheinbach location. In: childcare portal. Bundeswehr, accessed on October 2, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Ulrich Storck (editor in charge): Leadership Support Brigade 900 . Mönch-Verlag, Koblenz 1994.
4. ↑ Sebastian Wanninger: On the Net. (PDF) In: current. Bundeswehr, April 3, 2017, pp. 2–3 , accessed on October 2, 2018 . 
5. ^ Fritz Kessel: Cyber ​​Operations Center officially put into service. Bundeswehr, April 19, 2018, accessed on October 2, 2018 . 
6. ↑ BtrbZ IT-SysBw - dates. (No longer available online.) Force Base, archived from original on March 22, 2015 ; accessed on October 2, 2018 .