Stablack military training area

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The Stablack military training area was a military training area of the German Wehrmacht in the Preussisch Eylau district in East Prussia . The northern part of the training area is still used by the Russian army today, the southern part is in Poland and is no longer used for military purposes.

history

Wehrmacht soldiers at the Stablack military training area

The Stablack military training area was set up in the summer of 1934. The training area, which covers an area of ​​around 10,000 hectares, was created in the eastern area of Stablack , ten kilometers west of Preussisch Eylau (now in Russian: Bagrationowsk). From 1936 it was the second military training area set up in East Prussia , next to the Arys military training area (now in Polish: Orzysz ) . In 1937 was for the nearby army ammunition institution a freight yard near the passenger station Stablack ((MUNA) 54 ° 25 '0 "N, 20 ° 31' E 26" ) on the railway line Heiligenbeil (Russian: Mamonowo) built -Preußisch Eylau (Bagrationowsk) . The training area was used continuously by the German Wehrmacht from 1934 to 1945 . From 1939, the Stalag IA prisoner-of-war camp was located on the site of the military training area . In June 1944 the SS Volunteer Company 101 (Spanish) was set up here . In 1945 the area was conquered by the Red Army , the barracks were used as an internment camp for civilians and as a prisoner of war camp until around 1949. The Russian-Polish border divides the square, the northern area is used by the Red Army and today by the Russian Army ( 54 ° 24 ′ 34 ″ N, 20 ° 28 ′ 51 ″ E ). The southern, Polish area is used for civilian purposes, on the grounds of the South Camp (Kamińsk) there has been a prison since 1951 ( 54 ° 19 ′ 13 ″ N, 20 ° 27 ′ 19 ″ E ).

literature

  1. ↑ Chris McNab Hitler's Elite, the SS 1939-45 p. 326 (Engl.)
  2. ↑ Horst Schulz: Der Kreis Preussisch Eylau, p. 357 ff.
  3. ↑ Zakład Karny Kamińsk ( memento of the original from January 20, 2015 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. (Polish)} @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sw.gov.pl