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It provided support and supervision for U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern, among others. USAG Baden-Wuerttemberg was activated March 27, 2008. Its original predecessor organization from 1991 to 2005 was the 26th Area Support Group. From 2005 until 2008, USAG Heidelberg fulfilled both the local community support and regional command functions.
Pattonville from the north, circa 2006, with Golf Club Neckar eV to the right. Pattonville was a large U.S. military housing installation in West Germany during the Cold War, built and maintained by the U.S. Army from 1955 to 1992 as part of the Stuttgart Military Community. [1]
In June 2010, USAG Heidelberg was inactivated and consolidated into its parent unit, U.S. Army Garrison Baden-Wuerttemberg. [1] This was a preparatory move for a complete relocation away from Heidelberg: From 2012 to 2015 the relocation of all U.S. military units (many to Wiesbaden , Germany) marked an end point [ 2 ] in the history of the U.S ...
Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Baden-Württemberg/Selected picture/13 Georg-Elser-Museum Credit: Uwe Aranas Georg-Elser-Museum in Königsbronn ; dedicated to Georg Elser , who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a selfmade bomb in 1939.
Baden-Württemberg is formed from the historical territories of Württemberg, Baden and Prussian Hohenzollern. [14] Baden spans along the flat right bank of the river Rhine from north-west to the south (Lake Constance) of the present state, whereas Württemberg and Hohenzollern lay more inland and hillier, including areas such as the Swabian Jura mountain range.
Leighton Barracks is a former military garrison, located on top of a hill in the Hubland area 1.8 miles (3 km) east of the City of Würzburg, in Franconia, Germany.It was active as a military base between 1936 and 2008, from 2012-onwards part of the barracks has converted to new role as additional academic buildings and student accommodation for the University of Würzburg.
Baden-Baden (German pronunciation: [ˈbaːdn̩ ˈbaːdn̩] ⓘ) is a spa town in the state of Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany, at the north-western border of the Black Forest mountain range on the small river Oos, ten kilometres (six miles) east of the Rhine, the border with France, and forty kilometres (twenty-five miles) north-east of Strasbourg, France.
Stuttgart, often nicknamed the "Schwabenmetropole" (English: Swabian metropolis) in reference to its location in the centre of Swabia and the local dialect spoken by the native Swabians, has its etymological roots in the Old High German word Stuotgarten, [24] or "stud farm", [25] because the city was founded in 950 AD by Duke Liudolf of Swabia to breed warhorses.