Zollernalb barracks

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GermanyFlag of Germany (state) .svg Zollernalb barracks
country Germany
status abandoned 2014
local community Meßstetten
Coordinates : 48 ° 11 '  N , 9 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '13 "  N , 8 ° 59' 46"  E
Opened 1963
Formerly stationed units
Telecommunication
Regiment 31 Parts of the II./Fernmelderegiment 12
CAOC 4 Operations control area
1
Sector for information technology 1
6th
/ Jägerbataillon 292 Staff / support company 12 		GermanyFlag of Germany (state) .svg
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Zollernalb barracks (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Zollernalb barracks

Location of the Zollernalb barracks in Baden-Württemberg

The Zollernalb barracks was a barracks of the Luftwaffe operations command service in Meßstetten in the Zollernalb district of Baden-Württemberg . The barracks area was the stationing site of operational command area 1 . The associated Control and Reporting Center (CRC) ( callsign “Sweet Apple”, bunker “Martin”) and, until 2014, the local HADR (radar) of the staff and support company 12 were still located at the Meßstetten location .

history

The location was designed during the Cold War . From a geographical point of view, Meßstetten, as the highest region on the Swabian Alb, was a particularly favorable location for the construction of a radar station. The radome was built on the " Weichenwang ". But the place is much older as a military location. Before the radome was set up, there was already a radio listening post here.

In 1960, the Bundeswehr Air Force service division began building an underground air force command system, the so-called “Bunker Martin”, on the “Geißbühl” northwest of the Heuberg military training area (district of Meßstetten). It made possible a 30-day life independent of the outside world.

On July 4, 1963, a detachment of 450 soldiers from the first air surveillance association (I./Fernmelderegiment 31) set up on May 24, 1960 in the Boelcke barracks in Ulm, started the barracks and the operation of the air force combat control system with radar and radio equipment. After the completion of "Bunker Martin" in August 1964, the Air Force's CRC and the NATO Combined Air Operations Center 4 (CAOC 4) were also put into operation. The CAOC 4 was decommissioned and dissolved in 2008.

From 1968 to 1994 the Zollernalb barracks was also the location of the 1st Air Force Division. It led the air raid units of the Air Force stationed in the 4ATAF area .

As a result of the fundamental reform of the Bundeswehr decided in 2010, the stationing concept 2011 was presented to the Federal Cabinet on October 26, 2011 by Federal Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière ( CDU ), which meant the significant reduction of 840 posts to 20 for the Messstetten location , as well as the dissolution of the 6th / Hunter Battalion 292 and the operational command area 1 provided. This meant the closure of the barracks at the end of 2013. Only a radar station of the detached Air Force Technical Train 249 near the barracks remained.

On October 1, 2013, Lieutenant Colonel Volker Engelmann, acting commander of operational command area 1 and at the same time site elder , ceased operations in the "Martin" bunker. The operational command area was closed as part of an appeal to numerous guests of honor. From January 1, 2014, only 20 posts remained from the Meßstetten site, which employed up to 2,000 soldiers and civilian workers in its peak hours.

Todays use

From October 2014 to September 2017 the barracks was used as accommodation for asylum seekers . The state of Baden-Württemberg rented part of the barracks site from the Federal Agency for Real Estate . The site administration staff will continue to look after the buildings. Men, women and families were housed in separate houses, and a canteen, an infirmary with an X-ray machine and a kindergarten were set up. The adjoining soldiers' home was a meeting place with an internet café . A petting zoo was set up on the barracks grounds . The BOS radio was coordinated from a technical building. The municipal council of Meßstetten had unanimously voted in favor of refugee accommodation in the Zollernalb barracks.

In 2015, according to Bilkay Öney, rent-free use of all buildings and the renovation of the barracks, which were then occupied by 3,500 refugees, were agreed. The operation of the state registration office (LEA) ended on September 31, 2017. A use of the site for further education and training purposes by the state police is being examined. A decision on the examination of the future use of the "Bunker Martin" was postponed by the Federal Ministry of Defense from the end of 2019 to probably the end of 2020.

accessibility

The area is guarded. Visits are possible after presentation and registration of valid ID documents. The federal technical building is strictly secured and may not be entered.

Trivia

In neighboring Lautlingen, the Bundeswehr annually commemorates the Stauffenberg brothers who were killed in the resistance against National Socialism .

The story of Bunker Martin is also the subject of the documentary "Sweet Apple - 50 Years of Bunker Martin".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Holger Much: Bat in a giant dome ( Memento from November 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Südwest Presse of October 29, 2011
  2. ↑ Farewell with roll call and serenade . In: Südkurier from October 1, 2004
  3. ↑ An era is coming to an end. Dissolution of the two radar command regiment . In: Zollern-Alb-Kurier of September 30, 2004
  4. ^ The effects of the stationing concept in the state of Baden-Württemberg. (PDF; 233 kB) Federal Ministry of Defense, October 26, 2011, archived from the original on October 26, 2011 ; Retrieved October 26, 2011 .
  5. ^ Hermann-Peter Steinmüller (hps): Bundeswehr takes down the flag in Meßstetten . In: Südkurier of October 2, 2013
  6. ↑ (May): Zollernalb barracks. In: Schwarzwälder Bote from August 21, 2014.
  7. ↑ (May): Zollernalb barracks. In: Schwarzwälder Bote from August 21, 2014.
  8. ↑ (May): [1] In: Zollern-Alb-Kurier of October 29, 2014.
  9. ↑ Martin Kistner: "The LEA is completely self-sufficient" . In: Black Forest Messenger . September 12, 2014 ( online ).
  10. ↑ name = "first recording"> Andreas Böhmw: [2] . In: Südwestpresse , Stuttgart, September 16, 2015.
  11. ^ Bilkay Öney, Minister, SPD, September 17, 2015, concerns Baden-Württemberg
  12. ↑ LEA closes at the end of the year. www.schwarzwaelder-bote.de, August 17, 2017, accessed on September 2, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Christoph Holbein: Will the Zollernalb barracks become a police college? www.schwarzwaelder-bote.de, October 13, 2017, accessed on October 20, 2017 .
  14. ^ Bunker Martin: Examination postponed. In: Zollern-Alb-Kurier. December 11, 2019.
  15. ↑ Sweet Apple. 50 years of Bunker Martin. In: mindmefilms.com. MINDME FILMS, accessed December 13, 2019 .

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