Upper Lusatia military training area

Upper Lusatia military training area
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Lineup	from 1945
Country	Germany
Armed forces	armed forces
Organizational area	Force Base
Insinuation	Territorial Tasks Command of the Bundeswehr
Location	Weißkeißel , Saxony

The Oberlausitz military training area (military short form TrÜbPl Oberlausitz , civil also TÜP Oberlausitz ; Nochten military training area until 1998 ) is the only military training area in Saxony that is still used by the military . With a size of 175 km² it is the fifth largest military training area in Germany.

geography

The military training area is located in northern Upper Lusatia , about 10 kilometers south of Weißwasser and 100 kilometers northeast of the Saxon state capital Dresden in a thinly populated strip of land. Its core area is in the district of Görlitz in the Muskauer Heide between 135 and 145  m above sea level. NN .

The north-south extension of the Oberlausitz military training area is around 9.5 kilometers, its east-west extension around 38 kilometers. In the eastern part of the military training area, the federal highway 115 and the Berlin – Görlitz railway line run between Weißkeißel in the north and Rietschen in the south. To the east, the military training area extends to the Krauschwitz districts of Sagar , Werdeck and Pechern near the German-Polish border. In the west it stretches, interrupted by the federal highway 156 and the Nochten opencast mine , to the Spremberg – Hoyerswerda railway line in the Neustädter Heide. The military training area in the south and west encloses the eponymous town of Neustadt in the Bautzen district . Also to the west of the open pit are Spreestrasse ( Kreisstrasse 8481 ) and the Spree .

history

In 1945 the Red Army set up a tank firing range and a troop camp south of Nochten . The facility was taken over in the 1950s by the Barracked People's Police and in 1956 by the National People's Army .

The practice area has been enlarged again and again. The eastward expansion was driven, among other things, by the planned construction of the large Boxberg power plant and the opening of the Nochten open-cast mine .

Barracks near Haide (Haide camp) were built south of Weißkeißel . Tränke , north of Rietschen, was cleared in 1962 in favor of the military training area.

After the German reunification , the Bundeswehr took over the military training area. In November of the following year, it carried out the first combat shooting.

In the mid-1990s, an open-cast mine road under the name Spreestraße was expanded into a public district road. The Bundeswehr stipulated a number of requirements, the most striking of which are three paved armored crossings, the first of which was connected to a tank road in 2012.

use

A train with Leopard 2A6 NL tanks of the Koninklijke Landmacht in June 2007 on the way to the Upper Lusatia military training area

The military training area was already used by the NVA with all weapons of the land forces , as well as by air forces . In addition to regular exercises, the Bundeswehr carried out several maneuvers with NATO allies. The vehicles are often transported via the Berlin – Görlitz railway line , which in Weißkeißel has a purely military loading station.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the Oberlausitz military training area is in white and green, the colors of the Saxon flag. The white-tailed eagle symbolized on the left has been at home at the military training area for years, but it is not typical for the region. The coat of arms of the city of Weißwasser shown on the right creates a symbolic reference to the region. In the lower half the symbol of the fireworks is shown, which symbolizes the main activity.

The military training area as a wolf reserve

Since 1996, individual wolves have been spotted coming over the Lusatian Neisse from Poland . Around 1998 a couple settled on the spacious area. Since they can live relatively quietly there, the population of Germany's only wild wolves has increased steadily in the following years, so that around 2005 a second pack could be identified.

Web links

• TrÜbPl Oberlausitz with armed forces base

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gabi Nitsche: "Panzer marsch!" Over new routes and bridges. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . December 17, 2011, accessed February 15, 2017 . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  N , 14 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E