Wilhelm von Nassau Barracks Diez
 Wilhelm von Nassau Barracks Diez
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| country | Germany | ||
| today | Wilhelm-von-Nassau-Park | ||
| local community | Diez | ||
| Coordinates : | 50 ° 23 ′ N , 8 ° 0 ′ E | ||
| Opened | 1867 | ||
| Old barracks names | |||
| 1867-1918 1918-1927 1938-1945 1945-1956 |
Stadt-Kaserne Stadt-Kaserne De-Gaulle-Kaserne |
  
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| Formerly stationed units | |||
| Quartermaster replenishment company 929 Quartermaster repair company 939 Quartermaster material company 314 Munitions company 311 Munitions company 312 Operating material company 313 Parts of supply battalion 156 Telecommunications battalion 5 Telecommunications training company 1/5 Telecommunications training company 3/5 |
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Location of the Wilhelm-von-Nassau-Kaserne Diez in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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The Wilhelm von Nassau barracks in Diez an der Lahn was built in 1867 as a city barracks. It served first in the Prussian army until 1871 , then in the army of the German Empire until 1914 and in the German armed forces between 1938 and 1945 . From 1957 until it was given up at the end of 1993, it was a Bundeswehr location . It covered an area of 52,318 square meters. There were several accommodation, supply and staff buildings on the site, but no technical area. Between 1957 and 1969, mainly supply and supply troops of the Bundeswehr were housed in the barracks. From 1969 the telecommunications of the 5th Panzer Division were based here until they moved to Koblenz in October 1993.
As part of the conversion of the former barracks grounds, educational institutions, offices and public institutions as well as apartments were created.
Construction and deployment history
Although soldiers had been stationed in Diez an der Lahn since an order by the Oranienstein Princess Albertine in 1683, the site had no barracks for a long time. It was not until the beginning of the 19th century that a fruit storage facility, which was built in 1718 and located at the influence of the Aar in the Lahn, gave the city its first barracks, which is now known as the "Old Barracks". After Nassau fell to Prussia in 1866, the city barracks were built in 1867, located near the Oranienstein Castle, in which a Prussian cadet institute was set up in the same year. In addition, until the outbreak of the First World War, there were alternating units in Diez , including from 1867 to 1871 the 2nd Battalion of the Fusilier Regiment "von Gersdorff" (Kurhessisches) No. 80 , from 1871 to 1887 the 2nd Battalion of the Infantry Regiment "Von Horn" (3rd Rhenish) No. 29 , from 1887 to 1894 the 2nd Battalion of the 6th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 68 , from 1894 to 1897 the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Nassau Infantry Regiment No. 88 and from 1897 to 1914 the 1st Battalion of the 9th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 160 .
On December 20, 1918, French troops marched into Diez and also occupied the city barracks. They stayed in the city until the end of 1927. No soldiers were initially stationed in Diez after that. While on April 1, 1934, the National Socialists set up a “ National Political Education Institute ” in Oranienstein Castle as a pre-military training facility, the city barracks remained unused by the Wehrmacht until October 1938. Only then was an anti-tank department and state rifle associations housed here.
After the Second World War , French troops again occupied the barracks until 1956, which at that time bore the name De Gaulle .
After the barracks had been cleared by the French army , the area was handed over to the Bundeswehr, which initially ran the complex again under the name Stadt-Kaserne. Quartermaster Battalion 5 was set up in Diez in 1957 as a unit of the 5th Panzer Division. While the staff was housed in Oranienstein Castle, the battalion troops were stationed in the city barracks. On March 31, 1959, however, the battalion was disbanded, since according to Army Structure 2 , a supply battalion was to be set up at brigade level. On April 1, 1959, therefore, the reclassification to supply battalion 156 took place, with the battalion headquarters again in Oranienstein Castle and the battalion units in the city barracks. The battalion was subordinate to the 15th Panzer Brigade . In 1969 the supply battalion moved 156 to the newly built Alsberg barracks in Rennerod . With Army Structure III , the supply battalion 156 was dissolved again in 1972 and the supply company 150 and the repair company 150 were formed at the Rennerod location on October 1. Both companies were subordinate to the 15th Panzer Brigade. They remained there until their dissolution in 1993 (repair company 150) and 1994 (supply company 150).
From 1 July 1956 in Andernach the Quartermaster Supply Battalion 907 with Stabszug 907, quartermaster supply company 929, quartermaster supply company 934 and quartermaster repair company 939 set. On February 1, 1957, the battalion received his leadership. On February 27, 1958 the battalion was renamed Quartiermeisterbataillon 907 and relocated to Diez with Quartermaster Supply Company 929 and Quartermaster Repair Company 939, with the staff moving into Castle Oranienstein, the two companies taking their quarters in the city barracks of Diez. In Andernach, only the Quartermaster Supply Company 934 remained. On April 1, 1959, the battalion was again reclassified to Material Battalion 310. Quartermaster Supply Company 929 became Quartermaster Material Company 314 or Supply Company (Mat) 314, still located in the city barracks. The Quartermaster Repair Company in 939 left Diez and was subordinated to the 10th Panzer Grenadier Division. The quartermaster replenishment company 934, which had previously remained in Andernach, was relocated to Diez and was given the new designation as operating materials company 313 or replenishment company 313 (Bstf). The ammunition companies 311 and 312 and supply companies (Mun) 311 and 312 were also housed in Diez. The staff of the 310 material battalion remained in Oranienstein Castle. On July 1, 1960, the 310 material battalion and its units were able to move into the new Freiherr vom Stein barracks in Diez. On April 1, 1962, the 310 material battalion became the 310 supply battalion. In 2002, the battalion was finally disbanded and used to set up the 46th logistics regiment in Diez.
With the relocation of the supply battalion 156 to Rennerod, the city barracks or Wilhelm-von-Nassau barracks in 1969 were free to accommodate new units. The 5 Staff and Telecommunications Battalion was established in Grafenwöhr on August 1, 1956 as the 5 Armored Telecommunications Battalion and was relocated to Niederlahnstein on March 8, 1957 . In October 1957 it moved into the Falckenstein barracks in Koblenz- Lützel. From April 1, 1959, the unit was named "Fernmeldebataillon 5". In March 1969 it was moved to the Wilhelm von Nassau barracks. It stayed here until September 30, 1993. With the end of the Cold War, the battalion was combined with Telecommunications Battalion 330 on October 1, 1993 to form Staff and Telecommunications Battalion 5 and housed in the Fritsch barracks in Koblenz. On November 1, 1997, another relocation to Niederlahnstein in the Deines-Bruchmüller barracks took place . Staff and telecommunications battalion 5 in Niederlahnstein was initially renamed Telecommunications Battalion 283 on July 1, 2003, but was given a new name on October 1, 2005 as "Command Support Battalion 283". The liquidation finally took place on March 31, 2015.
The telecommunications training company 3/5, set up in the Falckenstein barracks in Koblenz in 1960, was relocated to the Wilhelm von Nassau barracks in March 1969 with the telecommunications battalion 5. On July 1, 1979, the name was changed to Telecommunications Training Company 1/5. The company was dissolved with the abandonment of the Wilhelm von Nassau barracks in 1993.
When the telecommunications company moved out, the last soldiers left the Wilhelm von Nassau barracks in Diez, so the barracks were closed on December 31, 1993.
Medical area 41/2 at the site was equipped with material for medical care.
conversion
After the Bundeswehr withdrew, the conversion of the former barracks began. The city and the community of Diez signed purchase contracts on December 30, 1994 for a total of 30,314 square meters. An optician school finally acquired the remaining 22,004 square meters.
The city of Diez drew up a development plan "Wilhelm-von-Nassau-Kaserne", which came into force on July 2, 1997.
A Waldorf school and kindergarten were built in the planning area and a private optician school was set up. The city of Diez created a youth center and a club house. The association used areas to house the fire brigade. An energy center, a training center, a job center and social housing were also built.
To finance these measures, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate contributed DM 4.123 million, the federal government DM 1.445 million, the Rhein-Lahn district DM 134.776 and the city of Diez DM 5.275 million. In total, more than 12.875 million DM from public budgets flowed into the conversion.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chronicle of the telecommunications battalion 5 at diefernmelder.de, PDF
- ^ Franz Prox: Diez, the garrison town for centuries
- ↑ Historical facts about Diez, ed. from the city of Diez
- ^ Franz Prox: Diez, the garrison town for centuries
- ↑ a b c d location database of the Bundeswehr in the Federal Republic of Germany as well as the training grounds used by the Bundeswehr abroad of the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr
- ↑ Franz Prox: On the history of the city of Diez ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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.
- ^ Franz Prox: Chronicle of the supply battalion 310
- ↑ Chronicle of the Telecommunications Battalion 5
- ↑ Conversion became a million dollar project for Diez, in: Rhein-Zeitung online from January 1, 2012
- ↑ Conversion became a million dollar project for Diez, in: Rhein-Zeitung online from January 1, 2012
- ↑ Justification for the 1st draft amendment to the development plan “Wilhelm-von-Nassau-Kaserne”, ed. von der Stadt Diez ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Conversion became a million dollar project for Diez, in: Rhein-Zeitung online from January 1, 2012
