Aschaffenburg military training area
The military training area Aschaffenburg (ger .: Training Area Aschaffenburg) was 1936-2007, a location or military training area in Aschaffenburg .
history
The plant was until the withdrawal of stationed in Aschaffenburg units and formations of the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division and other US military units in 1993 as training area out (ger .: Local Training Area). Only then did it receive the name military training area, as from then on, until its closure in September 2007, mostly in company - up to battalion strength , it was only used by foreign troops of the US armed forces, primarily from the surrounding locations of Hanau , Darmstadt , Babenhausen (Hesse) , Würzburg and Kitzingen , was used for combat exercises with maneuver and display ammunition.
The former practice area south of the Aschaffenburg district of Schweinheim was created by the Kingdom of Bavaria after the acquisition of land from the community of Schweinheim in 1912/13 in a total area of 95,008 Franconian decimals (approx. 32 hectares) as well as agricultural land from private owners. In 1920, the 240-day-work (approx. 82 ha) area was leased from the Reich Treasury by the community of Schweinheim and made usable for agricultural purposes. From 1936 the area served again as a local parade ground - this time the Wehrmacht , who built further barracks in Aschaffenburg along Würzburger and Schweinheimer Straße (pioneer, Lagarde, Bois-Brulé and artillery barracks). The core area of the Wehrmacht parade ground was a pioneer exercise area. There was an explosion there on July 21, 1943: 33 soldiers died. The remains of various buildings that were erected exclusively for training purposes still bear witness to its past as a pioneer training area. B. bridge piers, bridge abutments, u. a.
In the last weeks of the Second World War, the US armed forces set up a field camp with a hospital on the parade ground. From 1946 the parade ground was used again for agriculture and divided among Schweinheim families. Then the US armed forces built new training facilities that were adapted to their training requirements. In addition to the shooting ranges for rifles that were already in existence at the time , shooting systems for machine guns , pistols and bazooka (a recoilless anti-tank weapon) were built. Combat exercises were mainly carried out in the forest areas. The infrastructure of the training area has been continuously rebuilt and expanded by the US armed forces over and over again. New access roads with a solid base for armored personnel carriers and heavy Abrams battle tanks were created, a tank course was created to practice fire and movement of the armored train without a sharp shot, a driving school area equipped with artificial obstacles was designated for wheeled and tracked vehicles (sometimes also used for stock cart races) , a dammed pond for tanks to drive through (also used for fishing by the local Rod and Gun Club), a helicopter landing pad , several bivouacs , a small target area for tanks and armored personnel carriers and a shooting range for small arms that is illuminated for shooting at night and meets the increased safety requirements built. In addition, a bunkered blasting area for explosions up to 125 grams of TNT, a shooting range for the 40 mm grenade pistol and a training facility for the crew of NBC armored vehicles were built. In an abandoned ammunition depot, a small arena was built for local and urban warfare. A special ammunition store with nuclear warheads for a position for the Lance short-range ballistic missile and several buildings for range control , for a shooting theater and for training were the climax of the renovation and expansion measures operated by the US armed forces.
Current usage
After the military training area was closed, it was returned to its owners, the city of Aschaffenburg (337 ha) and the Federal Republic of Germany (240 ha). The area is accessed via a dense network of roads and paths and consists of three quarters of hilly forest areas. An ornithological mapping of the military training area in Aschaffenburg took place in 1992. In the meantime, 237 hectares have been designated as a nature reserve. The site extends the former nature reserve "Altenbachgrund" to today's nature reserve " Former training site Aschaffenburg and Altenbachgrund " (No. 00748.01). Becoming the biological diversity that has emerged during the years of military use and which are characterized by a small-scale juxtaposition of dry and wet areas, open meadows, heaths and wet wastelands, forests and sandy areas, as well as habitats for rare species such as the Przewalski horse excels , Taken into account.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release ( memento of January 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) from the plenary session of September 18, 2006
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Animal landscape care in Aschaffenburg , Bayerischer Rundfunk, August 2, 2016, accessed on August 23, 2018
Coordinates: 49 ° 56 ′ 34 " N , 9 ° 10 ′ 47" E