Daaden military training area

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North gate of the Stegskopf camp from the Daaden military training area

The Daaden military training area was a military training area in the Westerwald , Rhineland-Palatinate , not far from the border with North Rhine-Westphalia . It was named after the nearby town of Daaden . Most recently he was subordinate to the armed forces base .

geography

The military training area had relatively small differences in altitude, but was considered an area with above-average amounts of rain and high levels of snow for large parts of the year. The site is located in the northeast of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate with a shared border with North Rhine-Westphalia. With over 2000 hectares, divided into 800 hectares of forestry areas and 1200 hectares of exercise area, the total area was rather small for a military training area. The military training area was decommissioned at the end of 2013.

history

The practice site was first mentioned in 1914. In 1933 the first police training camp was set up on the Stegskopf . The following year, the Reich Labor Service moved in there for a year , and the camp was named " York von Wartenburg ". After the camp was expanded, it was leased in 1938 by the Reich Ministry of the Interior and used by the police together with artillery units located in Siegen . In 1943, the site was taken over by the Hitler Youth , who set up a high-frequency teaching and testing facility for academically gifted high school students. The camp was then renamed "Reichsausbildungslager Prinz Eugen ". In the years 1945 to 1950 " displaced persons " were accommodated on the square and were repatriated from there.

After 1950, the French army took over the place and expanded it. In Liebenscheid six were outside firing positions for mortar and artillery built. From 1957, the Bundeswehr took over the site and expanded it further. With the completion of federal highway 54, the previous through traffic was directed around the square. In the Stegskopf troop camp, the space had a capacity of 1,000 exercising soldiers and 600 soldiers in the bivouac . In July 1971 the construction of the mobilization base in Emmerzhausen began. The military training area was mainly used by infantry, especially by Airborne Brigade 27 , for infantry training.

During the time of German reunification , over 2,100 emigrants from the GDR were housed in the Stegskopf camp. In 1997 the place received the prize of the Hamburg Nature Conservation Foundation and the Loki Schmidt Foundation . The training area was placed under the command of the Baumholder military training area in 2007 . As part of the stationing concept 2011 , the abandonment of the square was announced and the square was handed over to the Bundeswehr Service Center Koblenz and the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks on December 12, 2013 . The “Working Group on Nature Conservation and Landscape Management” will advise on the further use of the biologically valuable area in the context of the conversion . The place was given up on June 30, 2014 by the Bundeswehr. At the end of 2015, a reception facility for asylum seekers (AfA) with a capacity for up to 5,000 asylum seekers was set up in the Stegskopf camp. At times there were up to 1,500 refugees in this facility. Due to the declining number of refugees, it was closed again in April 2016 and is currently in “stand-by mode as a reserve”.

Breitscheid airfield , which is also used by parachutists , and Siegerland airport are located near the military training area .

Exercise opportunities

The place had ten shooting ranges. It offered the opportunity to practice in the areas of urban operation , pre-deployment training (EAKK), ordnance disposal EOD / IED , the combat simulation system SIRA, which could also be used in the area of civil-military cooperation in the area of staff work in disaster scenarios.

Sources and web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Weber: Bundeswehr says goodbye with a loud bang. In: Rhein-Zeitung. December 12, 2013, accessed February 9, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Daaden military training area - a military era ends explosively . In: Internet presence of the armed forces base from December 17, 2013, accessed on December 22, 2013


Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 27.5 ″  N , 8 ° 3 ′ 15.8 ″  E