| History / Military &
Garnison |
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The
town Gardelegen has been a garrison-town for different troops
and armies during several centuries. |
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The
acqaintance of the inhabitants of Gardelegen with the military
began in the worst way—as a warlike occupation during the
“war of 30 years“ (since 1626) especially by “the Swedes”. |
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Gardelegen
was able to be happy about a “regular“ “billeting“ of
“recruits“ and “segenats“ and “officers“ in 1725:
the King of Prussia moved big parts of the royal Prussian
infantry-regiment with the number 27 to Gardelegen in the
“civil accommodation“. This period of the garrison-history
of the town Gardelegen ended in 1806 with the final marching off
of the infantry-regiment 27 against the troops connected with
Napoleon. A new era of the military-history began in the middle
of the 19th century.
A short-time billeting of “Dragonern“ of the Rhine was
followed by a garisson-process of two “Eskadronen” of the
royal Prussian Ulanen-regiment with the number 16, which got the
Name of honor "Henning von Treffenfeld"
a few years later. The end of the “big war” in 1919
meant the dissolution and the repeated end of the garrison town
Gardelegen. |
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From
1936 on we had a 3rd period. An exemplary riding- and driving
school was biuld and run in Gardelegen. The paratrooper-regiment
number 1 moved into a big part-accommodation and several
education-establishments. A big airport for repairs of the Air
Force was build. This all ended in 1945. |
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In 1945
a new period of military occupation began. A few former
establishments of the Armed Forces and the Air Forces were taken
over by sovjet troops in Germany. In addition the socailalistic
state-power installed several establishments of the
“border-troops of the DDR“ in the beginning of the fifties
in Gardelegen. |
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history of the garrison town Gardelegen ended with the
dissolution of the “border-troops of the DDR“ and with the
departure of the after-sovjet occupation-troops in the beginning
of the nineties. |
