Leighton Barracks in Würzburg

Whatever happened to Leighton Barracks and other former U.S. Army installations in Würzburg? You might also be interested in watching my latest Leighton Barracks video: • Leighton Barracks: Hig...

[@MaRiEee_]

This was really amazing seeing the exact place that I was born. I’ve always wondered about it because I was so young when my family left. Never thought I’d actually get to see it. Thank you for this. Really means a lot.

[@stevenr224]

I grew up their in the 80s and have strong memories. Too bad nobody filmed the bowling and arcade area at that time with golden axe and street fighter 2. Really miss the times.

[@rajahsirons4784]

Just found this. Thank you for taking the time to post this! We served in the late 80's to early 90's.

[@darrengregory1370]

4 squard 2 plt.3id 466 armor.3id 3/4 cav.91 ran with base commander one morning.M R E.

[@dougbell8231]

Im so glad to see this video! I was stationd on Leighton from 92 to 94. One day i hope to by a small home in the town. I had the best two years of my life there and i have always spoken highly of the Germans there! A marvelous group of people to have known! I don't know anyone there now as it is now 2020. But as i remember it was easy to make friends there. I can't wait to come back for a stay in town! I love Wurzburg Germany!!!

[@kemgreene8525]

"It's so good to reflect back a little, my dad was stationed there "70 to 73"on a three year stretch. I went to the elementary school and the high school at (7th grade) back then ."GO WOLVES"!!

[@tim05519]

It reassuring to see so many, actually all of the comments expressing happy memories of days past at 3rd ID, Leighton Barracks! I was at HHC DISCOM Support Command in 1973, and also have happy memories of those day, and the beautiful city of Wurzburg! It is a time in my life that now a days Is very fondly remembered, and I feel I’m in good company here! God Bless! and Thank you for the post!

[@hankbrown2871]

I lived in Skyline, 118 R-8, from 1955 until 1958. My memories of walking from our building across the open space over to George Washington Elementary School are vivid. Wurzburg was a great place to be for this grade schooler back in the 50s. Thanks for posting this.

[@nynoah]

Thank you so much for making this video. So many wonderful memories of Germany. I miss the country so much. I was there from 95-2000.

[@lavondadebrito1178]

I was stationed in Wildflecken when I met my husband who was stationed at the hospital...67th Evac which became 67th CSH. Our son was born there in 94! Thx 4 the memories😊

[@paulbrowncsm]

Thanks for taking the time to do this for us who are no longer there. I loved my assignment at the 67th from 95-98, and the city of Wurzburg was paradise. Good friends, good people, good times.

[@sonjaleach]

Thank you for posting this. I was stationed in Wurzburg and lived on Leighton Barracks from 1984 - 1989. I also had two babies at the American hospital. I was able to travel back and see the Wurzburg in 2008. They were just starting the process. So many great memories there!

[@KeciasWorld]

I was there then! 258th PSC. 1986-1988. And my oldest daughter was born in that hospital as well.

[@jodyfulford8215]

​@keciablair9368 I was stationed on Leighton barracks from Oct '85 to Oct '88. I was with HHB 3rd Inf DIVARTY. My wife and I lived really close to the hospital. Wuerzburg was such a great place to be stationed.

[@KeciasWorld]

@@jodyfulford8215 It really was a wonderfull experience.

[@nikkiep23]

Wow brings back memories. My son was born at the wurzburg hospital and I was a soldier at 69th signal on Leighton barracks. I'm moving back for work but Weisbaden. Thx for the videos. I lived at skyline

[@RichMillerInternet-Marketer]

Thank you Roland for the tour of Leighton barracks. It was a great time for me from 1982 to 1988, HHC 3rd ID.... Sad to see that the base is now closed, It was an important time of my life and an awesome experience! Thanks Again!

[@KingRamy1]

Ram ...2/90 thru 7/04 . This was such a really great time. from the open Borders and open kaserns thru 9/11 and then the end of the 1st I.D. wow. Leighton also had such a great German/ American Fest! I miss it all! thanks for the video Roland!

[@trekranger]

Thank you. I was stationed at Harvey Barracks in Kitzingen ,but i spent a lot of time in wursburg. I'm glad they are using it and not destroying it. Their is a lot of history there.

[@lvmykdzz]

I'm so glad that I found this. Thank you. I went to the High School in the 80's. It was undoubtedly the best time of my life!!

[@patrickhamel2756]

I went to the elementary school across street although they used to march us over to use the cafeteria in the high school, for lunch. Go wolves!

[@glennmyers3640]

I met my wife there and both of our children were born at the military hospital. I loved to be stationed in Würzburg. Memories are coming back to me.

[@PastorPatrickWinfrey]

Thank you for the video...I lived and worked there from 92-95.....

[@vinceosborne1933]

Thank you so much for the wonderful video of Wurzburg, the hospital, and the post. I attended high school there from 1958 -- 1961. I loved Scweinfurt and Kiztingen also. Germany and the Germans will always be dear to me. I have visited Wurzburg twicek since I graduated from college. The last time was for a high school reunion in 2002. Thank you for bringing back a flood of memories!

[@voiceinthechaos]

Nicely done, Roland. Thank you. ;-) I used to work on Leighton Barracks (AAFES Auto Parts Store, Garage, and Gas Station) as a local national for a while. I have lived in the States for almost 11 years now, and I'll be moving back to Wurzburg within the next few weeks.

[@irmgardbaumannbaumann6648]

Ich bin vor zwei Wochen mal durch das Kasernengelände gefahren,die schöne neue BX haben die abgerissen,ich war total traurig,habe als Kassiererin dort bis zum Abzug der Amerikaner gearbeitet. Du wirst dich wundern,wie sich Würzburg verändert hat,leider nur zum negativen. Trotzdem Welcome back home

[@Jules910]

Thank you for making this. I spent five years of childhood in Wuerzburg and on Leighton Barracks and I'm glad to see how the base is being used now.

[@valdez13]

Roland! Thanks for taking the time to post this video. The three years I spent in Wurzburg (98 to 01) were three of my favorite years. I miss it all so much, and cannot wait to return with my family, to show where Daddy once lived and to tell of all the friends and fun he had while stationed at the US Army Hospital there, living at Leighton Barracks. :-)

[@bobpaulino4714]

Mom and her family lived in wurzburg. My uncle was a dentist in town. He also loved to fly. He had a Piper, Cessna, and glider at schenkenturn, next to the old Nike missle base. Can't wait to visit my aunt.

[@keltonmahan]

My dad and family lived in Wurzburg 1960 to 1962 when we were resigned to Heidelberg. Lived on the economy at Steinbachtal until we got housing on Leighton Barracks. Our apartment was just across the street from the Elementary school. We loved it in Germany, was a great time !

[@matchvineyards]

Thanks for taking the time to make the video. I was at Leighton from 1989-1992 and remember my time in Wuerzburg very fondly.

[@moorejazznow]

Thanks for sharing,. I lived there in 1967 with my family.

[@knoxedoutknoxville5254]

My son was born in the hospital in 1997. We lived in Leighton Barracks. I was the 1st ID IG's driver. Thanks for the video.

[@bazurkwork]

I thank you for these memories. I lived there from 1993-96' went to WAMS and WAHS.

[@ryebread8925]

danke sehr!!!! We live there in 89-92 and this brought back so many memories. It was a great experience. So many wonderful people and explored the German culture while my dad was stationed there. I really miss those amazing bratwurst on a káiser roll.

[@LovingMyJourney]

I was stationed at Leighton in '83 - '85. I worked in the Finance office.

[@germanmagnolia]

thank you so much Roland. I retired from WMEDDAC in 2004, but since have been living in Frankfurt. The changes that took place I have not seen so this video is very special. I will keep your video as a reminder of former days. retired Amercian Civilian employee

[@hybridwolf66]

I was a dependent there from '80-'83. Spent my high school years as a Wolf. Anyone else there at that time? Cant wait to see the videos of the campus. Lots of memories from there. Wurzburg was my favorite place of all the bases I have been to.

[@LB81RN]

I was stationed as a Medical Specialist in the hospital there in 1983. LOVED the whole town...and the fortress/castle of Wurzburg!!! Recently found a friend online from way back then!

[@louanntotten3449]

There in 1980-1984

[@jamesharris9212]

Yep that's the place I use to live and went to school played sports 81-83 James

[@darroid44]

Thanks for the video. Brings back a lot of good memories. I was stationed in the hospital from 1981 untill 1983. I would love to visit there again.

[@beachgirl468]

I'm a RN and worked as a GS Civilian RN in the newborn nursery at the American hospital when my ex-husband was stationed there. We were only there for not quite a year from 93-94' , as we had to be transferred from Dolan Barracks in Scwabisch Hall when it closed in June of 93.

[@floydperduesr7528]

Thank You very much as I was at Hindenburg Ks. at the other end of town between 1976-1978. What a change.

[@michaelz1604]

My son was born in this hospital in 1989. I'm glad to see that it's still there. I was stationed at emery barracks from 86 till 89. I was married in wurzburg at the residence in 87. Love Wurzburg and the people.

[@alanfrench8320]

I was 3RD ID stationed there from 93 to 96. I cannot say how much I miss Kitzingen and Wurtzurg ...

[@Search4TruthReality]

Rottendorfer Straße is the name of the street that ran through the middle of Leighton Barracks. There was no name change as soon as you entered. I was there from 1982 - 1984, 3d Infantry Division, 3d Military Police Co 4th Platoon (Heavy Platoon). The place with that wall you'd shown in your video - I know it well. If I'm not mistaken, there are houses just on the other side of that wall; and, we used to call it Colonel's Row. The Commanding General of 3d Infantry Division used to live in one of those houses. They constructed a small structure with heat to allow us to warm up. I fondly remember the CG's staff providing hot chocolate for us (MPs walking colonel's row) before that structure was provided. At the junction of Leighton Barracks Road and Elferweg, BLDG 38 was home to 3d Infantry Division's 3d Military Police Co -- Headquarters and 4th Platoon (RACO - Rear Area Combat Operations). BLDG 38 had served as prison facility at some point in history. [ Google Earth: 49°47'28.50"N 9°58'34.37"E ] To the east of BLDG 38 is where the 3d Division Band and Replacement Detachment were housed. To the west of BLDG 38, as you head down the hill, you have Finance and next to that, Corps Military Police unit. I've forget their numerical designation - a three-digit number. Heading west on Elferweg, you have the chow hall on right (north) and the NCO club on left (south) at the top of a set of stairs. Back in the day, when the wall was still up and Leighton Barracks was active, we'd get these sweet little wake-up calls at 2 a.m. that are better known as ALERTS; and, being the soldiers we were, we would respond to this sweetness by preparing to to go war -- drawing weapons, and running about a half-mile to the motor pool to draw our vehicles. Our US ARMY Military Police "jeeps" (M151A2 One-quarter Ton Utility Trucks, with machine gun mounts) would line-up all along Elferweg in preparation of moving-out to the field - sometimes in support of the Division or other operation. Many times, it was just our Platoon; because, that's how our leadership rolled. Do you think the Band and Finance went to the field? phthth - yea-right. In two years, I saw them out there once for required reediness testing. Their training funds were ripe for the picking by Vietnam-veteran 1ST SGT and PLT LDR. Ah yes, the field was a lovely place for young men and PTSD-suffering vets; and, I have frostbite burns to prove the field provided the most perfect weather conditions for training soldiers - ice and frost. We would train in the forests, fields, and tree-lines located in and around German National's homes and farmlands. The autobahn proved to be a special place for a trooper seated in an open jeep. Who can forget the sub-zero temperatures and freezing rain at 60MPH with road water being splashed on you by passing Mercedes Benz? :- ) good-times...good-times. Anyhow, thank you for posting this video. It would be interesting to see video footage of the areas I've described above. For any other Heavy Platoon folks, contact me.

[@kenolsen1845]

Cry me a river....try Ft.Polk Louisiana for a duty station.

[@jodyfulford8215]

I was stationed on Leighton from Oct 85 to Oct 88 with HHB 3rd Inf DIVARTY. By then we had CUCVs instead of 151s. If you remember alerts so fondly I'm sure you have many warm memories of going to the motor pool once an hour to start the vehicles during extreme cold weather. The MPs were really friendly with us. I had just bought a new CJ-7 and wanted to sit in the parking lot and listen to music and drink beer. An MP came by and told me that I could be arrested for drinking and driving since my keys were in the ignition. When I showed him that I had taken the coil wire from the distributor and signed it in to the CQ he went in and verified. When he came back out he said "Have a good time " and left. A few years earlier I was stationed in Schweinfurt and was visiting my brother in Kitzingen. It was about 2am and we were both beyond drunk. An MP van pulled up and asked where we were headed. When we said the barracks they told us that we were going with them. The next morning we woke up in an unlocked jail cell. The desk Sergeant gave us each a cigarette and a cup of coffee. When we finished them he said we were free to leave and gave us directions to the nearest mess hall. No blotter report. They never contacted our units. Probably because we were cooperative. I'm pretty sure that if we were combative there might have been a different outcome. I've had several other encounters with MPs and all of them were pretty friendly.

[@kspaz]

Thanks for posting this. I was stationed here from 2000-2003 and I finally got to come back in 2010, only to find I couldn't get on the base. It's nice to see, and to hear what it's going to be used for.

[@danleiter1]

Danke Schon for the memories. I lived here 1972-1973, at the height of the Cold War. Went to the Elementary School @ 7:12.

[@Gknych]

I loved the last min of this video as it showed Wuerzburg American Elementary and Wuerzburg American High School. My brothers and I went to both schools and my parents were teachers there. This video clip brought back a lot of happy memories. Thanks for making it.

[@av8tor17b]

Thank you so much ! Stationed here 1983-87 at HHC 3rd and AFN-Wuerzburg!

[@bradkraus9268]

I was there twice. 89-91 and 93-96. I miss Leighton kaserne

[@renatesieber2656]

schön nochmal zu sehen .danke

[@r.dennismartin3801]

As a military dependent, I lived there from 1972 to 1974, attending the elementary school 4th, 5th, and 6th grades.

[@DianaCB_TX]

:( I was a little girl there from 60 to 68 my mom was born there and Oma und Opa .

[@kingrusimpson2042]

I was born in the American Hospital January 13th 1980....this is amazing to see

[@tim05519]

Many thanks Roland, I was stationed there in '73, it was a very different place. It was kind of charming in a way. My barracks was just across the parking lot from the Gym/social center or whatever it was called, near where the big communications tower stood. I also did guard-duty in the closed off area at 4:48 in the film. I love Germany and the German people are awesome. Thank you again for the trip down memory lane.

[@benjaminsaville882]

My Dad was stationed there around the same time

[@GaliSinatra]

My daughter was born in that hospital in 1992. Nice to see the building is being used as apartments now.

[@chazzt2112]

ty rolandflade for doing this. brings back many happy memories of Germany!

[@gerrr00]

What an awesome video. Thank you for taking time to do this. I am homesick for Germany, I loved living there. Like others I hope to see what happened to the shopping area on Wuerzburg and the kasernes in Kitzingen.

[@philosophical-zombie4917]

My family was stationed here in the early 90s when I was a kid good memories

[@demoacct]

Thank you for posting this! 67th Evac is now an luxury apartment building, wow...

[@4pinky2011]

I WAS STATIONED IN THIS HOSPITAL (The 33rd Field Hospital) FROM DEC. 1972-1974! GREAT TIMES!

[@tinagallo9525]

Thanks for making this video, It pains me to not be able to take my daughter back to the hospital where she was born at that you have in this video.

[@otismurphy4428]

3rd ID , 3rd MP Company anyone ? Wurzburg HQ ,but lived and worked out of Kitzingen. ( 84- 86 ) . Hope all is well with everyone that came thru ...

[@vmh90]

Vielen, vielen dank fuer den Video! I grew up in Schweinfurt but went to school at Wurzburg High. It means a lot to see such old, familiar places!

[@kayess718]

I lived in Skyline apartments (bldg 129 R1) on Leighton Barracks from '02 - '05. I deployed with 121 Sig BN in '04. I was attached to 121 so I did PT in Kitzingen but lived and worked on LB. Great memories!

[@edflowers1107]

I was stationed at the hospital, 1962-1965. At that time, it was the 10th Evacuation Hospital. I was an admitting clerk, working midnight to 8 a.m.

[@trekranger]

I love it when they had the festival there in summer

[@dougbell8231]

The Hospital was the 67th Combat Support Hospital. The unit has since been disbanded.

[@ladyyuna2000]

My father was stationed in Würzburg and I was born in Würzburg, Northern Bavaria Germany in 1981. I would love to visit there again.

[@gerfina84]

nice lil video, i like the ''saab-military-sales'' all changed here in wuerzburg, it looks kinda different now compared to the past when i was young. i really like your video. when was this video produced? a few weeks ago?

[@MrDreamthief]

Thank you, sir. Thank you very much.

[@TheFloflo29]

Hallo Roland, Are they going to use the middle school as well for the University, and they was a small Kaserne off the B8 down close towards a small bahnhof station on the bottom of the hill from Leighton, whateever happened to that Kaserne? I lived there from 1986 to 1995 as a child

[@gablou14]

Loved see this I was stationed at emery kasern from nov 81-82 with the third s&t alpha co

[@jyozao7209]

My son was born in Wuzburg in 1982 wow *t has been a long time his father has passed and I have 3 grand sons. I was on Emory Barracks. One thing about Germany is it was clean.

[@mandijogilstrap7887]

I was born there in 1982 as well!

[@isabelramirez4109]

Greetings Roland, Thank you very much for the footage. I was stationed in Emery Barracks in Wurzburg in 1981-1982 but spent a good amount of time in Leighton Barrakcs too!!! I'm curious to know how much the housing in Leighton costs. Loved everything about Germany!!!!!

[@rolandflade]

John, you are right!

[@patrickhamel2756]

Had my tonsils removed in that hospital. Spent the first 10 years of my life in this city. Anyone remember the “Hindenburg” base down by the river? We lived around the corner on Hartmann Strasse. Good times!

[@robertlaux1206]

In 1964 I built a communication tower there. I was stationed in Kitzengen with the 10th Engineer group.

[@2704Thomas]

All the Nights i spent there on Patrol and Gateguard in the early 2000´s, for shitty payment, right after my time as Soldier ^^

[@danielrhodes7594]

It is nice to seen it again. I was stationed at the Hospital there. It sounds like they renovated it into apartments.

[@rosemariemajeed273]

Das war die schönste Zeit in meinem Leben❤

[@yeldarbq5166]

i was in wurzburgh in 1980. emery kaserne?

[@Freedman1981]

Wow, so many many memories. My first non fast foos job was in the Med Records Office at 67th CSH...man. good thing the city is making proper use of it though

[@HoldMySoda]

Danke für das Video! Gefällt mir gut!

[@johnrolleston72]

was this where the Marne Division Headquarters were, Spent three days there , is this accross the river from the castle

[@HenrytheVU]

what happend to the commisary, PX, movietheater etc? great video! brings back alot of good memories...

[@irmgardbaumannbaumann6648]

All going,They brooke everything down,nothing left,upsaid

[@TheBandana1969]

Some of the apartments were up for rent in 2009. I had gone for an job interview to Wurtzberg in 2009 and had lunch in the hospital. The job did not work out, or I would be living here

[@kostas6621]

Wow awesome!! Its been awhile :)

[@abbiemcmullin5504]

So cool! I lived there in the early 80s ❤

[@Islandteacherwkbx]

Had some great times visiting the PX. What a time it was in Germany.

[@dakshajackson]

so what happend to the area? i live there in 2002 did they shut down?

[@Sampson2833]

1986-1990.....River Building MP Station, Faulenberg Kassern, Kitzengin, Leighton Bks

[@azthundercloud]

i was born at the hospital. 1959. have photos of the time. went back when i was stationed at ramstein.usaf.

[@dougbell8231]

Oh yes the hospital was a great place to be stationed. I was a medic then and i still work in the ER to this day.. Hooah! 2020

[@sgmbrandonconover5581]

Where is Wurzburg located ? I was stationed at Patch Barracks in Stuttgart back in 90-92

[@TheBandana1969]

An hour's train ride from Frankfurt

[@jessicahunter4584]

Anyone know the address of the old hospital? I am told it is now apartments but I want to stop by and see it on my way through at the end of the week

[@rolandflade]

The address is Mariannhillstraße.

[@rolandflade]

The future: The casino will become a restaurant, the movie theater will be turned into a supermarket, the gym will probably be used by sports clubs. New apartment blocks will be built between the former runway and the park next to Nürnberger Straße, others near the Lincoln Housing Area. A new trolley line, to be opened in 2018, will run from the city center to the “old” campus, cross the street “Am Galgenberg” and then run along the runway (which will become a park) and former Washington Street.

[@rolandflade]

@cupiedbaby Sorry, it would take some time, which I don't have at the moment, to find this out.

[@discoveryman]

I was born there at the hospital it speaks about at 0:43 Both of my parents were stationed there.

[@rolandflade]

I am currently working on a new video about the High School (empty at the moment, part of it may be used for teaching purposes one day) and the Middle School (is now the University Language Center where they reach all kinds of languages; in my video an American woman who reaches there will tell how it feels.)

[@rolandflade]

There are two mistakes in my remarks: The university people added elevators, not escalators to the former barracks buildings. And the U.S. Army did not close the main entrance immediately after 9/11. This only happened some years later. Until that time they had additional guards on Rottendorfer Straße. For further information contact me: [e-mail]

[@gringochoppers]

I lived across the street from the elementary school from 1973-75 in the building you can see on Google maps with the white roof..I guess they put new roofs on the rest because they are brown now...I went to the elementary school for 3rd -5th grade...lots of good memories living there..the AYA club..going to post to see a movie or just mess around..used to explore the old war bunkers behind the base and go up Cherry hill and pick cherries..it looks like they are gone now and the base buildings..I can see lots of construction going on on Google earth now..so cool to explore the area on my phone in the states 45 years later...I wish I could go back even though it's all changed...anyone else who lived there from 73-75 reading this??

[@mandijogilstrap7887]

I used to ride my bike to cherry hill and pick cherries in the 80's. ❤️ I was born there in 1982.

[@gringochoppers]

Born in 82..damn I'm old 😂..that's when I finished Highschool

[@gringochoppers]

So when you were there was there still a long sidewalk going from the base housing to the post??..I used to ride my Skateboard at night and bring food to my dad's work.

[@villear]

1981-2003

[@rampartranger7749]

I was a medic on TDY at 33rd back in 1972, six weeks on the pediatric ward, Six weeks medical ward. After arriving in Germany in May of 72, I worked 66 straight days without a day off, starting pay for a draftee was $67/mo. (Male privilege, haha😂)

[@johncotten8902]

When I was Stationed In Germany I Became Friends With Maris Mathabel Who Taught Here. She Is Retired Now Living In Yucca Valley California.

[@germanmagnolia]

genau!

[@Corner72]

Remember the time it wasn't necessary to gateguard This area

[@moorejazznow]

I lived with my parents i 1967 I believe it was Skyline Drive.

[@AdamElrod]

I was at Würzburg Elementary in 1985!

[@mandijogilstrap7887]

Me too!

[@AdamElrod]

@@mandijogilstrap7887 Wow, what grade?? How long were you at Wurzburg Elementary?

[@bayland20]

I was stationed there 1980-83. 3rd MP Co.. Sec. Plt. (Heavy) Our jumping off point for world travel : ) Would like to tour for a week if affordable.

[@Search4TruthReality]

+Frank Schaeffer I was heavy platoon '82 - '84. am in touch with a few of the other guys in a FG group: 4th Platoon 3rd MP Co The Heavy Platoon. Hanebury, Rickard, Gardner, me, Tardy, Hixon and Bragg.