Monteith Barracks Fuerth |
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Pictures before 1993 from Monteith Barracks Pictures between 1993 and 2010 | 14 January 2021: "Looking for anyone around Monteith barracks in Nov 1954 that might be able to input on this cars show." Please contact Tom Householder (trhouse@columbus.rr.com) | ||
Photos from 28 May 2019 | |||
The former Pershing 2 shop is broken down. | |||
The former guard house at the main entrance is removed, 28 March 2019. | |||
After
25 years the Federal Ministery realized that they won't sell the
Monteith real estates without preparing them at first: removing
concrete slabs and old buildings etc. The photos below were taken on June 14th 2018, the series on the right two months later. Article in the "Fürther Nachrichten" | Photo show about the location left of map location No. 1 | Photo show at map location No. 1 | Photo show at map location No. 3 |
1 - Former garage | 1 - Former garage | 1 - Former garage | |
1 - Former garage | 1 - Former garage | 2 - Former garage | 2 - Former garage |
2 - Former garage | 2 - Former garage | 2 - Former garage, from the backside | 2 - Former garage, from the backside |
3 - Former PX | 3 - Former gate office | 3 - Former PX | |
3 - Former gate office | 3 - Former gate office | All photos were taken on June, 14th, 2018. The numbers on the map above show the area where the photos were taken. | Impressions |
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A new office building ist under construction (7 Dec 2017). 180 deg clockwise round view from NW to NW. Camera position see map. | |||
Photos from the 5th of July 2017. The "Golf Park" - the former Monteith Barracks - is the last former US facility in Fuerth that is under conversion and still offers space for new companies. | The former main entrance | The former main Entrance | Bowling alley (right), entrance road (left). |
Some of the few keepsakes. | Railroad loading platform (left). | The railroad track was behind this nice building. | The railroad track was on the right side. |
The big hangar on the right side, the big Fraunhofer Institute X-ray chamber on the left. | Big areas for relaxing truckers. | A miscellany of renovation, modernisation and Bratwurst. | The first car dealer at Monteith. |
A lot of empty space for more industry. View towards the Main-Danube-Canal. | New manufacturer and old concrete panels. | The former Patriot maintenace shop. | New industry for high precision motion control technology. Offices. |
A manufacturer for "High-precision metal-plastic composite parts for automotive electronics". | A planning office for building technology. | A company for electrical discharge machining. | Bld 300 stood behind this tree. |
Soccer field along fairway 10. | The building at the entrance gate. | The heating plant is in operation. | |
A new office building is under construction. (9 November 2016) | It will consist of 22,000 square feet on 4 floors at the Gustav-Weißkopf-Straße. | The "Golfpark" (former Monteith Barracks) is continuously filled with new companies. | |
Photos from 27 January 2016. Numbers are referring to the position on the map on the left. (1) | (1) Along fairway No. 8. | (1) | |
(1) | (1) | (1) | (3) |
(3) | (3) | Some old trees could be preserved. The moles like it. | Path from (2) to (3) |
(2) A manufacturer for die casting tools opened at Gustav-Weißkopf-Straße. | (2) The same tree as in the photo before in 2010. | (2) A company for spark erosion and grit blasting. The former soccer field in the background. | (2) |
Nothing has changed near the former railway station. | A playground on the former telephone communication center. | The huge X-ray hall of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits is used for radiographing big objects. | The wall has a pattern of stars which are illuminated at night. |
The Flugplatzstraße with the former bowling alley (right) and the fire station (left). | The former fire station is renovated. | Opposite view as above. | The entrance of the Fraunhofer Institute. |
A big fence seperates the back of the Fraunhofer Institute against hole No. 9 of the short course. | In the front you see... nothing: the former tank washing bay. | BRK-(Red Cross) Disaster Prevention Center. | Lunch time at the BRK. |
One of the last remainders of the US Army, a ramp for tank repair. | New roads for more business. Solar panels along fairway No. 16 in the back. | Photos from 3 April 2015. The improvement of the infrastructure at Monteith. | The exit to Hafenstraße is paved new. |
Photos from 2012 | The Monteith Bks area is now called "Golfpark" which is attractive for investors. | The wooden hut shows the former position of the flag pole. | The former bowling alley in the middle. |
The road names at the "Golf Park" Hermann Köhl: German aviation pioneer who was the first pilot crossing the Atlantic ocean from East to West (in 1928). | Hans Mangold: He was the woner of a famos toy factory in Fürth (GAMA). Charles Lindbergh: The first to cross the Atlantic Ocean from West to East. | Melli Beese: She was the German (female) pilot with licence No. 1. Käthe Brand: She was the landlord of the airport guesthouse in the thirties and hostet celebrities from Churchill to Hitler and from Citroen to Vanderbilt.. | Gustav Weisskopf = Gustave Whitehead:
Born in nearby Leutershausen, he was a German-American pioneer of
motorized aviation. It is said that he made his first flight two years
earlier than the Wright brothers. |
The construction of the Fraunhofer Institute on the right side. | The Fraunhofer Institute does scientific research for high resolution X-rays. | The former Bld 285. The chapel was at the right corner. | |
Around the former railroad station. | |||
The loading platform. | The loading platform on the left side. The street is named after "Hans Mangold", a toy manufacturer from Fürth. | ||
Bld. 309 from Sept. 2012 Photos by Johannes Müller Thank you, Johannes |
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