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22 unusual facts about Baumholder


Baumholder Army Airfield

Baumholder Army Airfield is a small military airfield in support of the United States Army facilities in Baumholder, Germany.

David Whitehurst

Charles David Whitehurst (born April 27, 1955 in Baumholder, Germany) is a former professional American football quarterback in the National Football League.

Deimberg

Young farmers could attend agricultural schools in Meisenheim and Baumholder, and after local governmental restructuring in 1968, also in Kusel.

Dennweiler-Frohnbach

Dennweiler-Frohnbach borders in the north on the town of Baumholder, in the east on the municipality of Oberalben and in the southwest on the municipality of Körborn.

A village named Ruppertsweiler – not to be confused with Ruppertsweiler just east of Pirmasens, which has not vanished – first mentioned in 1270 as Ruprehtiswilre in a document issued by Count Heinrich of Veldenz and Geroldseck (the same as the one mentioned just above), lay northwest of Dennweiler on the road that went from Lichtenberg towards Baumholder.

DODDS European Championships

Typically, they meet at a main base in Germany such as: Ramstein, Wiesbaden, Baumholder, or Kaiserslautern.

Environmental Campus Birkenfeld

Near this location (Baumholder) was the 98th General Hospital, established in Neubrücke (a small town near Birkenfeld).

Erdesbach

Today, the village is almost purely a residential community for those who commute to jobs in Kusel, Kaiserslautern, Ramstein, Baumholder and even as far away as Mannheim and Ludwigshafen.

ERDL pattern

The 1st Battalion, 13th Infantry Regiment wore the ERDL-leaf pattern as an experiment in the early 1970s in Baumholder, Germany.

Grow the Army

A similar event occurred in September 2010, when the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division in Baumholder, Germany, reflagged as the 170th Infantry Brigade.

Herren-Sulzbach

Rudolf Licht (1884-1975) — Licht came from Baumholder, arriving in Sulzbach in 1905 as a young schoolteacher.

Young farmers could go to agricultural schools in Meisenheim and Baumholder, and after the 1968 regional reform, in Kusel, too.

Kirrweiler, Kusel

In 1938, when the Baumholder troop drilling ground was being built, the municipality was stripped of 155.5 ha of woodland by the Nazis.

Young farmers could attend agricultural schools in Meisenheim and Baumholder, and after regional reform in 1968, in Kusel, too.

Kirrweiler borders in the north on the municipality of Homberg (and more specifically on the Schönbornerhof, that municipality’s historic farm estate), in the northeast on the municipality of Herren-Sulzbach, in the east on the municipality of Deimberg, in the south on the municipality of Sankt Julian and in the west on the Baumholder troop drilling ground.

Louis Sauer

After basic training at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, Sauer joined the occupying army in Baumholder, Germany (December 1953 to June 1955) as Private First Class in the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Michelle Walker

Walker was born in Baumholder, Germany the fifth of six children to Captain Adolphus Walker, Jr. (US ARMY) and Linnie Mae Bardwell.

Strategic Army Corps

Alerted for movement on 10 October, although scattered at different training sites along the Eastern Seaboard, the Regiment arrived at its new duty stations of Baumholder and Kaiserslautern exactly thirty days later.

Unterjeckenbach

Unterjeckenbach borders in the north on the municipality of Sien in the east on the municipality of Langweiler, in the south on the municipality of Homberg and in the west on the Baumholder troop drilling ground.

This was evacuated after Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, along with 14 other villages in the region, to make way for the Baumholder troop drilling ground.

VfR Baumholder

VfR Baumholder is a German association football club from the town of Baumholder, Rhineland-Palatinate.

William Gainey

Gainey served as the Command Sergeant Major for the 2nd Battalion, 68th Armored Regiment, and 1st Battalion, 35th Armored Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Baumholder, Germany; Eagle Base, Bosnia and Herzegovina; 1st Squadron, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Polk, La.


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Dennweiler-Frohnbach

The village of Dennweiler belonged from the time of its founding onwards among lands held by the Bishopric of Verdun around the market town of Baumholder, whereas Frohnbach belonged to the Remigiusland held by the Abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims.

Hinton Battle

Battle was born in Neubrücke, Hoppstädten, West Germany, part of the Baumholder Army Military Community, and raised in Washington, D.C. and New York City.

Kappeln, Rhineland-Palatinate

According to the document, the magistrates denied Waldgrave Friedrich of Kyrburg any rights to the villages of Schweinschied, Kappeln, Löllbach, Langweiler, Käsweiler (vanished before 1500), Sulzbach, Homberg, Kirrweiler, Oberjeckenbach (cleared out in 1933 by the Nazis to make way for the Baumholder troop drilling ground) and Unterjeckenbach.