US Army Strassburg Kaserne Germany Idar-Oberstein Algenrodt

US Army Strassburg Kaserne Germany Idar-Oberstein Algenrodt
(Photos October 2017)

[@notthemeemaw8464]

How I miss that place!! We used to go dancing at the club and my Wedding reception was held there as well!! Makes me cry to see it so lost and empty!!!

[@michaelmilo5949]

I have a feeling this is not the end of the base. Knowing the Germans, they wouldn't let this base sit like this since 2018 without doing something with it. Supposedly the American government will be allocating at least $500 million to renovate Baumholder. Hopefully Straussburg and Neubruckie will get some much needed renovations also.

[@MrHydeInMe]

You've been there after the army base was left oder did you just cry when seeing these pictures of the video? If so, I would not recommend to go there. The pictures on the video look kind of sad, but because of the sun it's still friendly. I've been there a couple years ago when the weather was cloudy and it's real, real scary. Used to play there, when I was a child.

[@lenrichling9407]

Lived there from 82-86. Loved walking to the gem mines.

[@Tobimahobi]

Okay 😃

[@Vingreg65]

i was there during that time

[@ds2348]

I live there from 1977 until 1980 we played in the caves every chance we could.

[@manyusersfollowingaloser]

I was there 1983-84, we ran PT passed gem mines.

[@MrHydeInMe]

@@ds2348 Then there's a big chance that we have meet those days ;-) Lived there also until 1979 and went to the gem fields and the caes (and always got scolded by my mom).

[@ronaldmartin3606]

I was here 1960 to 1962 ..as an Army brat I was 11 to 13 us old .Teachers..Mr. Rolo , Mrs Owens and Mr. Zweck..we had wonderful memories at little league baseball and the post had many Adults providing activities for us kids at the time . Part of my heart growing up will always be here

[@dalettestowell7649]

Hi Ronald. My brother and I lived there from 60 to 64. Our building is at the 4:45 mark. Far corner first floor. My dad was head of the motor pool and worked at the nco club occasionally. I think my brother played on your baseball team. He had a group picture he'd like to share. Thanks so much for your posts. We remember Mr. Rolo 😊 and Saturday matinee.

[@guyshoaf3697]

Guy (Tige) Shoaf I lived there 75-81, great place to grow up as a kid. The caves were not developed and you could just explore on your own if you were brave enough.... Lots of good memories!

[@johnnoone4323]

If your father was MSG Shoaf (7th CEC) I knew him.

[@billkalavsky7378]

Is this SFC Shoaf NCOIC of the inspection section at Nabollenbach

[@billkalavsky7378]

I knew him too I was stationed there with him in the Inspection Section.@@johnnoone4323

[@tracyruth4247]

Thanks for the memories! We lived there for a short time around 1991. Loved walking to the diamond mines and around town. Too bad these buildings couldn't be used for something else.

[@Vingreg65]

I lived there 81-84

[@Vingreg65]

I had custom tshirts made for people who lived at Strassburg acouple years ago

[@Vingreg65]

I may be doing some again soon

[@tracyruth4247]

@@Vingreg65 we were only there maybe half a year, ended up being part of the army downsizing.

[@Vingreg65]

@@tracyruth4247 that is sad did not get to enjoy being in such a great place. Did you go to baumholder high school or to the elementary there on post

[@jessikat6692]

Lived here from 80-83 ( I was 13 yrs old then). I was born in Idar-Oberstein in '67 (US Citizen and Retired US Military myself now). My Step Dad was stationed at Baumholder. I remember the DYA where I learned how to play Billiards and Movies were like $0.25- $0.50. The Bowling Alley had like 6 lanes and I was so hooked on the Missile Command and Asteroids Video game. Oh the Memories. :)

[@Tobimahobi]

Okay :)

[@Vingreg65]

i was there from 81-84

[@manyusersfollowingaloser]

@@Vingreg65I was there from 1983-1984.

[@MrHydeInMe]

OMG... so much memories come with these pictures. I used to live in Algenroth as a child and when we went to Steinkaulenberg on the accomodation road we often met US kids and became friends. That's where I learned to speak English, that's where I found my interes and admiration for the United States. Too sad that the US Army left that place, although I don't live there anymore since 1980. I visited it a couple years ago, but it's a ghost town now. A ghost town with an accomomdation road to the gem fields they make a circus for the tourists, just to keep their financial situation afloat. Miss those times.. really..

[@catgirl_eva]

I lived here from January 1993 to May 1995 (we lived in an apartment above Jackboy in Baumholder from August 1992 to January 1993). It's crazy to see the apartment building, 9047, that I lived in nearly 30 years later. And yes, I remember the Christmas Market and going to Idar-Oberstein Elementary School with Mrs. Allen (Grade 1), Ms. Edwards (Grade 2) and Ms. Klaia (Grade 3) as my teachers. And we can't forget about having only one channel until we finally got cable on post. Sky One and Cartoon Network were the best things ever for a young kid living in Germany back in the early to mid 90s.

[@richpait5021]

I lived here from 1970-72. Lots of fond memories...knew the quarters layout well as I delivered the Stars & Stripes newspaper on the base.

[@Tobimahobi]

Ok :)

[@michaellorenz3396]

Amazing Video!!!

[@Tobimahobi]

Thanks 😉👍

[@Smoer1]

How many soldiers+ family lived there? I always find these abandonded places interesting to visit. I love how calm it is. You only meet the occasional person walking the dog. And the Big green gates, were they closed at night?

[@Tobimahobi]

Unfortunately, I do not know how many lived there

[@andallraryantba8020]

I was stationed at the Strasberg Kaserne in 2/81, then it became 6/29 FA SERVICE BATTERY in 1983-1984.

[@Tobimahobi]

Okay :)

[@Vingreg65]

I WAS there when it became 6-29 there are several on the facebook groups from the 6-29

[@manyusersfollowingaloser]

@@Vingreg65I was there also when the change happened. I remember the alert we had the morning in October 1983 when 2 terrorist truck bombers blew up US Marines and French Paratroopers in Beirut, Lebanon.

[@abcpropertymgt9034]

Stationed here in early 60's.

[@michaellorenz3396]

Then y will remember the german guy in the bar, NCO CLUB......he called Ewald! A buddy of my dad

[@suzanneforsyth9059]

Lived there 1965-1967, In commander's house on hill. Visited in 2013, is right next to a German firing range, bullets in my house's door!

[@bobthomas7014]

Was stationed there 1978 to 1980 A Battery 2nd of the 81st Field Artillery.. lots of memories there

[@jeffreyscales6406]

I was stationed there from 1977 to 1979 in A Battery 81st FA.

[@JBTurkey]

My old home away from Home. It's sad seeing it vacant. I had many great days here! We would crawl through the fence and eat good next door 😀

[@DjWhaltbabieluv843]

Lived there from '75-78, a "military brat". Father's name is LTC (ret) Earl L. Reeves. He was with the 2nd/81st FA. Company Commander of Charlie Company/Battery I believe, or it may have been Bravo Company/Battery.

[@johnnoone4323]

I lived in the Strassburg BOQ and just off the kaserne from June, 1979 (when I arrived in Germany) to June, 1980 - when I transferred to Kaiserslautern. For families and married persons, the place would be suitable - there was enough there to meet needs. For single soldiers (all ranks) having to spend one year or more - there are better places in that there are more options elsewhere. It would have been a long, slow, and difficult three years for me if I had remained there for three years. The negative of living in a small military community is it was like living in a fish bowl. You can go for an innocent walk on a street on the kaserne and the next day everyone in your unit knows what you did and when. I remember the times and the people there very well - like everything happened yesterday.

[@marthaforsyth8279]

Lived there 74-77.

[@Judicius]

This was my home from 2005 to 2007. Its a shame that it is now a ghost town. Perhaps all of us who once lived here could come together to make something of it now that it is clear its not going to be used for anything other then empty space.

[@Tobimahobi]

That's a good idea of ​​you :)

[@michaellorenz3396]

And at last: I guess you don't know , that BRUCE WILLIS father was also there, for a couple of years!! And so in Bruce Passport is wrote: Born in IDAR-OBERSTEIN, WEST-GERMANY!!!

[@SlowLew222]

That is amazing , Michael. I didn't believe it, but you're right on the money! I saw DIE HARD in Deutschland. I thought it would be great to say I saw it in the town he was born, but if memory is correct, I saw it in Hohensfeld

[@dollcet308]

His family didnt live on the Base but in another Part of the City near the Bismarkturm, in a regular House. My Mom remembers Mr. Willis as a small Boy playing with lots of plastic Toys in the Frontyard while his Mother would sit nearby in a Chair and read Books.

[@djchadhammond]

When Mr. Willis was in the Service, he was stationed in Strassburg and lived across the street from my grandmother in Algenrodt. The small town next to the base.

[@FormerMPSGT]

I wast the Battalion Chaplain Assistant assigned to HHB 6/29 FA 8 ID (M) 1987-1988, moved from 3/16 FA BN in Baumholder. Loved it there! My twin daughters were born in the Hospital in Idar-Oberstein!

[@robertgettell740]

I out-processed in September 1987. The battalion was out at Graf, and I had to stay at the kaserne so I could finish out processing. It's been a long time ago, wow. Feel free to contact me is you would like.

[@jonskipper3402]

Hello, and you took me to the Airport with your wife so I could fly home to get married. This is Skipper by the way.

[@michaellorenz3396]

Hello Americans, do you remember the Spiessbraten?

[@ftwopointeight]

Damn right I do. We were having a major discussion about it right before Thanksgiving. Hands down the best.

[@SlowLew222]

The name is familiar. Can you remind me?

[@michaellorenz3396]

Its really a special meat in I-O! For me with potato-salad, bread and a beer......

[@boysrback5690]

Hell yeah. Rouladen and german dumplings as well.

[@michaellorenz3396]

.......with red kraut] Another bigger one is : Rollbraten

[@fishingismydrug1]

Was there part of '97, when we got back from Bosnia and Serbia. B co 40th Engineer's. Had been in Baumholder before we deployed. Wasn't there a restaurant, just outside the gate? Oddly enough, the best ribs I've ever had! We would there on Friday nights, before heading out to party.

[@joshjackson2596]

Lol hell yea, the stadt krueg or somthing like that

[@lonnieawoods]

I know from baulmholder to out there was great all the clubs where right there. Lots of catching the last cab at around 5 amish to make it to PT formation at 6. Those made for some really days

[@michaellorenz3396]

If you wanna make it right, you take pork 300 gr pieces from neck or shoulder, give salt and pepper only and put it with a lot of unions in a big bowl. Let it standing during a night!! The special taste is coming from the unions. Then 15-20 min on fire. Please, without ketchup.....haha!

[@SlowLew222]

Yes I think that might be it. Now that I think of it I think it was called the berghof and not the bahnhof. I didn't know he was a barber. I don't know if he was still doing that when I was there. You and I just missed each other I was there from 88 to 90. I used to go to that restaurant and I always ordered lasagna and heife weizen he would greet me every time as "Hey,Mister Lasagna" He was thin and wore glasses?

[@ftwopointeight]

Bergof, thats it! And I misspoke, Tony the Barber owned the club downtown, around the corner from The Cherry. His wife was the manager, they had an [informal, friends-only] 'Tequila Club' which was basically you bought a bottle of El Torero tequila to get in, and you kept the plastic sombrero cap that came with it, and if you spotted another member of the club without their sombrero they had to buy rounds. For the record, she was (tall and gorgeous) the worlds worst for keeping her sombrero and easy to bust for free drinks ;)

[@michaellorenz3396]

Berghof! In engl.: Mountain farm

[@joemoon2587]

I think i was there with you, Bro. Hows it going?

[@joemoon2587]

JMOON@Trane.

[@stoopidgirly]

@4:46 I can see where we lived in 1983. There was a playground across the street, behind that parking area. There was another one behind the building on the right (where we lived).

[@michaelmilo5949]

I lived in that same building from 1996 to 2000. I remember the playground on 9047 side and the backside of the building also. So many fond memories from so many generations of army brats!

[@michaellorenz3396]

And there was in the 60's the NCO Club, if i remember right, i was a kid......) Today, the americans come with 4-6 helicopter from Baumholder or another airbase to small airport I-OBERSTEIN/GOETTSCHIED, for eat Spiessbr. in that Airport Restaurant!

[@shki74ah]

My stepfather was stationed there, and we lived there from 1967-1968. Thanks for sharing. It looks like a ghost town now. Has it been closed down?

[@Tobimahobi]

Thank you very much for your feedback the Strasbourg barracks closed in 2008 the pictures are from October 2017

[@Tobimahobi]

At the end of the year 2018 it became known that the US Army wants to renovate two blocks of flats in order to be able to move in. Families based in Baumholder can move there

[@shki74ah]

Thanks so much for the info Tobimahobi.

[@charliefischer1553]

Station there a 1958 to 1960 what a great place

[@charliefischer1553]

Station air 58 to 19 60/85 quarter master Company great place. Great memories.

[@ronsvenom]

We lived there in 79 to 80 I think. I think we left in late 80. I was 9 when we left. Had good times there. Sledding down deadman hill. Hunting Crystals up the hill or down the hill I guess. Lol. Watching the howitzers behind our barracks housing(soccer field).

[@Tobimahobi]

Okay ;)

[@alexanderjackson9302]

You bring back so many memories. Deadmans hill!!! I was there late 80s early 90s and I did the same. I used to go down the hill into the forest and eat apples and plums from the trees. Also always being home gems

[@jmckeith2342]

Was there 74-76. HHB Was a sweet gig as a soldier.

[@Behutet93]

I was stationed there June 73 - Jan 76. HHB. I am guessing you are Joey McKeithan?

[@jmckeith2342]

@Behutet93 Yes sir.

[@Behutet93]

@@jmckeith2342 This is Marc Romero. I retired a year ago. I live in South San Jose with my partner. Hope you are doing well.

[@jmckeith2342]

@@Behutet93 Hi Marc. I remember you. My wife and I are retired hospice nurses and live in North Carolina. Hope you and yours are,doing well.

[@Smoer1]

Currently visiting Idar Oberstein. Walked into this last night. Weird to see so many abandonded buildings. We were just guessing what it was. Is there any more info to be Found about this place? We noticed that at some buildings Cars are still parked. Strange things happening there now:p?

[@Tobimahobi]

I also noticed that when i was there anderen Tool the Pictures

[@Smoer1]

@@Tobimahobi we went there again today. I get the feeling that sometimes drug deals happen over there:p. Or maybe im overthinking things:p. Is it still being patrolled or anything? Because you'd expect more graffiti, Broken windows and ppl living illegally when so many buildings are abandonded. But seems like this place stays pretty clean. Are the buildings owned by the USA (army)?

[@Tobimahobi]

A few years ago there had lived in the houses a homeless person a lot on when at night there was always a light on in one of these houses the USA Army handed over the Strasbourg barracks 2008 to the Federal Republic of Germany

[@hungryshay]

Mostly it’s just kids or teens who hang out there in their cars me and my friends do that like every day

[@Smoer1]

@@hungryshay I might do that to if I lived there:P. I assume it's a place where some come to smoke weed as well since they wont be bothered with other people/police:p.

[@boysrback5690]

We would go to the theater cost a quarter. Dya played youth football we were the Steelers. Used get apples and cherry down the hill. German farmers land.

[@ronaldmartin3606]

I was there 1960 to1962 11ys old our school teachers were Mr .Rolo , Mrs Owen's, Mr. Zweck and Mr Rice ..I/m Ronald Martin..we all had a great time at the gym and little league baseball; we were the Spartans and Hill Toppers .Friends Johnny Joe , Valerie , Patty , Delores and many others

[@aorenday1]

Was stationed there from 1986 to 1989 😢young medic at the time looks sad now

[@stevelamendola61]

1988-1990

[@mikel9056]

I was stationed there from 1974 thru 1975 and I don't remember it looking like a dump. I had a room on the top floor of the barracks overlooking the town, as far as the Marion Hotel. The 2/81st Airborne was there then, and they had SP 109's, which were tracked 155mm self-propelled artillery pieces. There is a lot of weird things to see around there if you have the time and the patience to find them. I would suggest that you don't go looking. Try looking at it from Google Earth, you'll find buildings and sites that are computer generated images, without any reason for Google to do this. I am not trolling. I'm just getting something off my chest.

[@jmckeith2342]

Was there at the same time Mike. Field Artillery radar.

[@mikel9056]

@@jmckeith2342 I was a legal clerk/artillery/red eye missile. Since I could type, they sent me to legal clerk school. I have other MOS's but that's because if you can pass tests in the Military they like to send people who can pass them. It was a weird time to be there.

[@Vingreg65]

2/81 was a field artillary unit

[@mikel9056]

@@Vingreg65 Yes it was. The 2/81st is an Airborne division. I was an artilleryman stationed there. We had self-propelled 155mm cannons. SP 109's. The Airborne soldiers had to make regular jumps to qualify for their jump pay. By the way, Germany was like a stop-off place for many Vietnam vets. It was a little like the old west for awhile there. I also was the Battalion Legal Clerk there.

[@Vingreg65]

@@mikel9056 dont see much on the 2/81 on facebook just the pathfinnders groups more 6-29 groups

[@jt-eb4sp]

Stationed there in 1965. What happened to it.

[@Vingreg65]

uS ARMY GAVEITBACK TO THE GERMANS

[@PP-sb9hp]

Shame it looks like that now. I personally put in lots of landscaping and painting time to make it look nice.

[@Behutet93]

I was stationed there from June 73 to Jan 76. HHB. I was a 36K but later became the Battalion S-1 clerk.

[@alexanderjackson9302]

9047 2nd floor 3:51 mark

[@michaelmilo5949]

Hey, I was in the same building from 1996 to 2000. Left side of the building second floor left apartment.

[@howardmaxey1413]

I was there '85-'86

[@SlowLew222]

'88 - '90. Did you ever go to the restaurant that was just off the post? I think it was The Bahnhof(I may have name wrong)

[@ftwopointeight]

I was there 86-87 ;)

[@ftwopointeight]

@@SlowLew222 The little pizza place at the 4-way intersection owned by the base barber, Tony?

[@SlowLew222]

I was C 6/29

[@ftwopointeight]

@@SlowLew222 So I was 37th Trans, MCT, we had four offices in the basement of the last building on the right and four dorm rooms on the second floor. Everything there was 8th ID, and a TAB battery (who was in our building as well) We were a small unit, one Cpt, one 1st Sgt, one E6, one E5, Two E4, five privates, eleven total. If you remember what was called "March Kredits" , those numbers written in chalk on all US vehicles authorizing them to use German roads for maneuvers, thats what our office did. Not glorious by any means. I was also my unit armorer, having attended weapons school in Grafenwoehr... Fun times.

[@muhiak115]

jungs I live here

[@3rdPriority]

There 2000-2003

[@Tobimahobi]

Okay 😃

[@tekulvethomas9897]

I was there from 2000 - 2002

[@3rdPriority]

@@tekulvethomas9897 what battery?

[@ordinaryJeff]

01-03 for me. HHS(or was it HHC) and then D battery.

[@michaellorenz3396]

Wird renoviert für eine neue Garnison!

[@SlowLew222]

Does that mean it will be renovated?

[@michaellorenz3396]

Yes!

[@tammymoody8952]

I was there 93 to 93

[@tammymoody8952]

*96

[@sabinesingletary2372]

My father was stationed there in 78-81. I really liked this place out of all the places I have been. I wish I could go back and see the old place again. The only place I didn't see on the video is the movie theater.

[@sabinesingletary2372]

My maiden name back then was Breeding.

[@Smoer1]

Where was this located? Didnt find the theater.

[@jeffreyscales6406]

@Sabine Singletary I was stationed there in 77-79 the video didn't show movie theater (all white building) which was on the backside of the mess hall.

[@michaelmilo5949]

I believe the building is still there but when I was there it wasn't open. The small gym with the basketball court is what I remember and the movie rental spot in the building we would watch the super bowl and celebrate new years.