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34-745: On the Großer Heuberg , a plateau in the southwest of the Swabian Jura in an altitude of 800–970 metres (2,620–3,180 ft), is the area between Albstadt in the north, Meßstetten in the west, Schwenningen in the south and Stetten am kalten Markt on the south-east, where the army installations at Lager Heuberg and Albkaserne are located. The barracks, the training area and the proving ground comprise approximately 47.9 square kilometres (11,800 acres). Of these, 2,480 hectares (6,100 acres) are exercise area, of which 1,245 hectares (3,080 acres) are suitable for tracked vehicles. The two sites of

68-600: A document from 1477, could be no other place in the district. The microtoponyms ( flurnames ) of the mountaintop "Weng" in the Heuberg Training Area and "Wangen" by the radar installation are in common use. During the construction of a drainage ditch Alfred Ludwig Oetinger, pastor in Meßstetten und Hossingen from 1856 to 1868, discovered a bronze cauldron and potsherds near the Weichenwang. To

102-789: A documentary film about the Bachem Ba 349. The Überbündische Meeting (in short "ÜT") took place 1977 and 2017 in Allenspach near Böttingen courtyard of the evangelical church youth, Jungenschaft Horte. A total of 3.400 people took part in at least 45 different societies and institutions of scouts and youth movement. The climate of the Heuberg is harsh and cold; precipitation averages 1,000–1,100 millimetres (39–43 in) annually. Places now lost are remembered in legend. A town called "Wangen" between Hossingen and Meßstetten has now disappeared. An as-yet undiscovered Celtic town of Pyrene

136-540: A water source, Rainbrunnenquelle, which originated in Falkenstein  [ de ] between Neidingen and Thiergarten  [ de ] . After the demolition of the Hammerschmiede a pumping station was erected at its place. Along the more than 300 metres (980 ft) higher training area three elevated tanks and a pressure line were built from 1909. In 1912 a power plant was built, which supplied

170-715: Is a Natura 2000 - Area On the grounds the Bundeswehr is planning the construction and expansion of a new and an existing explosives-disposal site in Spitalwald. The site consists of a large main area, which is predominantly within the Heuberg Training Area, and several small subdivisions in Frohnstetten and south Ebingen . The total size of the habitat-protection area is 4,732 hectares (11,690 acres). Of these, 4,134 hectares (10,220 acres) are within

204-491: Is characterized by the traditional herding economy ( transhumance ). So it is possible to maintain or expand the typical landscape of the past centuries at the facility. On the hills are old bunkers, or what is left of them to see after bombardment. Since the training area is burdened by its nearly century-old military use to a large extent with ammunition and parts, entering and driving is extremely dangerous and therefore strictly forbidden for civilians. The Heuberg training area

238-465: Is the hub of the federal armed forces in the Sigmaringen district, and the last military training center still in use in southern Germany. Construction and expansion measures cost tens of millions of Euro. In connection with the Heuberg training area are the following external firing positions: Underneath the training area was CAOC 4, belonging to adjacent Zollernalb barracks in Meßstetten . Of

272-911: Is the name of a sparsely populated plateau in the southwestern Swabian Jura with mountains of about 1,000 metres above sea level or even higher. The word beginning Heu is German for hay , which was the major income source for the inhabitants in recent times and is until today formative for the landscape of the Heuberg. The word ending berg means mountain . Smuggling across the border ( Württemberg , Baden , Province of Hohenzollern ) in Meßstetten. 30,000 Bibles (Martin Luther) to Habsburg : Hans Ungnad von Weißenwolff, Freiherr von Sonneck, Hans III (1493–1564), famous Bible printer and smuggler in Bad Urach Smuggler, translator and Slovene refugee Protestant preacher Primož Trubar , who published

306-610: The air force installations, only one air surveillance radome on the Weichenwang hill in the vicinity has remained active. The Heuberg training area originated from the requirements of the XIV Army Corps in 1885, which had expressed a need for a new maneuver area that was large enough for military exercises according to the new military principles. In August 1899 the Grand Duchy of Baden 's Ministry of Finance

340-609: The Bundeswehr in Stetten am kalten Markt - Lager Heuberg and Albkaserne - account for 141.8 hectares (350 acres), where approximately 1,620 hectares (4,000 acres) are within the boundaries of the municipality Stetten am kalten Markt and 129 hectares (320 acres) in the municipality Schwenningen are omitted. In 1909 the city of Meßstetten had to sell nearly 40% of their district area to the Reich Treasury. The training area

374-581: The Nazi regime . Up to 2,000 people, mostly political opponents of the regime, were taken in protective custody . After nine months, Concentration Camp Heuberg was dissolved. Most prisoners were then deported into larger concentration camps, such as Dachau . On March 1, 1945, on the Ochsenkopf about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from the Camp Heuberg, 23-year-old Luftwaffe test pilot Lothar Sieber made

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408-591: The Treaty of Versailles . This treaty demanded the demilitarization of military proving grounds. The funicular was decommissioned in 1921 and never rebuilt. In 1985 a tank loading facility was built on the Zollernalb Railway ( Tübingen–Sigmaringen railway ) in Storzingen. In May 1914, shortly before the war began, the training area was opened. The Prussian Ministry of War . gave careful consideration to

442-465: The Hemmadhäddlers. All passengers survived the encounter with the apparitions, but they had to cut the traces of the skittish horses and abandon the wagon stuck in the deep loam. Another old tale tells of a spectral rider on a white horse ( Schimmelreiter ), who secretly visited his lover on the Weichenwang . Many times in stormy autumn weather a Schimmelreiter is said to be seen riding toward

476-709: The Sebastian Chapel and Weinitz and Hardt in Frohnstetten . A special challenge was supplying water for 6000 soldiers in training and 2500 horses. For this purpose, on February 19, 1910, the National Military Treasury acquired the so-called Hammermühle, an old ironworks in Thiergarten in Beuron with channel and weir from the House of Fürstenberg for 35.000 Reichsmarks . They also bought

510-537: The Weichenwang (Heiligenwang) from the old castle of Burtel near Hossingen, the remains of which are visible today. Regarding the couple, there was a recorded relationship between a knight and the daughter of the lord of the castle, whose homes are said to be the castles of Hossingen and Tierburg. In 1898, Emil Schweizer included a version of this story in his article on the Balingen Mountains ( Balinger Bergen ). More vague evidence occurs in an old document:

544-573: The areas in Baden , Württemberg und Prussia , which dragged on for some time. In some cases forced expropriations by the Reich Treasury was necessary, since not all prospective sellers were in agreement with the land prices offered by the military. By 1910 the first military exercises by the XIV Army Corps could take place at the training course, which was only partially purchased at this time. Because there were not enough fixed accommodations,

578-492: The armored corps until the end of the twienth century, Heuberg is now used in many ways besides— practicing Army force basic training, bomb disposal , military police , Technisches Hilfswerk , professional fire , Federal Police , customs and police, CBRN defense . The training center possesses an extraordinarily important ecology for nature preservation. The area is divided into 40 per cent forest cover and 60 percent open meadow areas, some interspersed with juniper heath. It

612-519: The border between three different municipalities, formerly in the three states of Württemberg, Baden, and Hohenzollern. The meadow at the Dreibannmarke served as a stopping place for traveling merchants, wagons and craftsmen. With care it is possible to identify traces of the border. After the inauguration of the firing ranges, a meadow was allocated to the Gypsies as a camping site at the edge of

646-561: The concrete launch pad and the wooden stump of the launching ramp. From 1945 to 1959 the site was under French administration. The last French army unit moved from Camp Heuberg in 1997. In 1966 the Bundeswehr expanded in Stetten am kalten Markt with the construction of the Albkaserne. Missiles were stationed here during the Cold War . In 1995 the city of Meßstetten reacquired the former "Blumersberg" artillery site. Used chiefly for

680-851: The first books in Slovene and is regarded as the key consolidator of the Slovene identity, lived in Tübingen Derendingen. The smuggler was called Schwärzer in the local dialect due to the black camouflage color on his face. Startingpoint: Sportheim Eichhalde, Schelmenwasenstraße 11 , 72469 Meßstetten. Bibles of Martin Luther paid with cows way Bad Urach smuggler cave Meßstetten border to Crypto-Protestantism in Habsburg Empire Smuggler used caves in Meßstetten and Hossingen. Bibles of Martin Luther, coffee, corn and steel

714-488: The great derision of the workmen he secured the finds and forwarded them for scientific evaluation. Around 1850 the area was a frequent target of grave robbers. The pastor then carried out systematic excavations, first on his own, and later on behalf of the "Staatssammlung vaterländischer Alterthümer" (State Collection of Patriotic Antiquities). The investigators documented unique finds of Celtic wagon burials with preserved wooden pieces and jeweled harness fittings. In 1869 it

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748-457: The initial (and only) test flight of the Bachem Ba 349 "Natter"— the world's first manned flight of a vertical take-off rocket plane . He was killed shortly after take-off in a crash near Nusplingen, in Stetten am kalten Markt. In March Sieber was buried with military honors in the cemetery of Stetten am kalten Markt. The grave is still there today; also still to be seen at the launch point are

782-502: The interest of the agency focused on the Heuberg. Since both the terrain and the purchase presented the fewest difficulties, the site was chosen, despite the fact that the future training area was only one-third in Baden and would not have a railway connection. Plans for a military station below the outer firing position Blumersberg in Meßstetten were worked out in detail for 8000 gold marks . From 1908 on purchase negotiations were held for

816-419: The military use training area. This has been protected since 2001 as a bird sanctuary and since 2005 as a conservation area . The area is especially worthy of protection—it is particularly suitable as a summer meadow for sheep—because of its species-rich limestone meadows and juniper heaths. Within the area there is the legendary Dreibannmarke , also called the "Dahn", a 17th-century border, which today marks

850-456: The naming of the training area. In addition to the proposals as "Truppenübungsplatz Stetten", "Truppenübungsplatz Heuberg" was ultimately selected and approved by the Minister of War. In both World Wars a prisoner-of-war camp was established at the site. At the beginning of 1933 the existing buildings on the Heuberg north of the facility were used as one of the first concentration camps of

884-702: The noble knight Kunz acquired a castle in Meßstetten on July 14, 1327, from the Lord of Bubenhofen . It may be that lord of Castle Hossingen in financial difficulties so that he had to pawn his fiefdom to the rich lord of Bubenhofen. Perhaps the Schimmelreitier was Kunz, from Neuentierberg Castle , and had he acquired for his beloved her father's castle in Hossingen. 48°08′00″N 8°45′00″E  /  48.1333°N 8.7500°E  / 48.1333; 8.7500 Beuron Beuron ( Swabian : Beira )

918-671: The restricted area. Until 1835 merchants were smuggled over the customs borders guarded by local hunters. Ritter Heinrich von Tierberg, called Haiterbach, had most likely sold his property in Haiterbach , and in 1345 acquired his new territory on the grounds of the military training center, the center of which was Meßstetten. In 1418 he sold it to Württemberg. 48°10′05″N 9°01′29″E  /  48.1681°N 9.0247°E  / 48.1681; 9.0247 Gro%C3%9Fer Heuberg Großer Heuberg (Great Heuberg) or Grosser Heuberg , often simply called Heuberg ( Swabian : Haiberg ),

952-734: The soldiers were housed in tents or quartered in the surrounding communities. Between 1912 and 1916 Camp Heuberg was built in the district of Stetten am kalten Markt. The establishment of the training area forced the destruction of several settlements which had been built to improve the economic situation of the population in the former territory of Straßberg, Zollernalbkreis . for example, Harthof and Lenzenhütte— also called Glashüttehof— in Straßberg, Ochsenkopf and Waldhof in Kaiseringen , Knobelhof in Heinstetten, Sebastiansweiler with

986-402: The training ground with electricity via a power line from Thiergarten. In 1911 the planning of a wastewater treatment plant began; the construction took place 1912 to 1914, and in 1914 it was able to go into operation. 1925 Stetten was connected to the sewage treatment plant with the western center part, 1981 the district Glashütte was added. To build and supply the facility, a freight funicular

1020-478: Was impossible to exactly date the finds. Without evidence a very extensive, but short-lived, settlement was postulated at the time of the burials. An old story talks about the Hemmadhäddlers , which are said to appear at certain times. A bold teamster from Tieringen was driving an empty wagon over the Weichenwang to Baienberg with a group of men from Hausen am Tann . At midnight he chanced to invoke

1054-503: Was inaugurated in 1912. It went from train station in Kaiseringen to the Alb plateau with a length of 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi), and from there an additional 1.5 kilometres (1,500 m) of railroad, of which only some concrete remains. After many repairs the railroad, completed in 1915, continued to suffer may accidents and was soon abandoned. At the end of World War I in 1918 the training ground could initially no longer be used because of

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1088-543: Was informed by the General Command in Karlsruhe of the requirements for a future training area. In addition to many other criteria, the future area should not have a high elevation, should have a railway terminal and should be as circular as possible. The agency assigned to conduct the search ( Domänendirektion ) quickly determined that the wishes of the military could not be met by any of the candidates. In 1905,

1122-495: Was mentioned in ancient sources. The identification of Pyrene would bring special honor to researchers, since it is the oldest town in the Upper Danube region known from written sources. In 2010 more vague evidence occurs in old blood in the region of the Upper Danube : a virus of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever , CCHF which mostly led to death in earlier times. The locality "Neu-Wangenhausen" ( Nüwenghausen ), mentioned in

1156-698: Was smuggled. In 1831 the smuggler Haux was shot dead on the path. In the book Via Bologna a murder is on the secret path to the smuggler cave ( 48°11′19″N 8°57′46″E  /  48.188521°N 8.962843°E  / 48.188521; 8.962843  ( Schmugglerhöhle ) ), today a hiking way. in 1945 the rocket Bachem Ba 349 startet on the Heuberg Ochsenkopf in Straßberg-Kaiseringen. On March 1, 1945, Lothar Sieber died near Nusplingen. The first manned rocket flight in history. In 2010 Oliver Gortat and Philip Schneider made

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