Coleman Kaserne - Gelnhausen Family Housing- End of an era
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Gelnhausen housing area demolition. You are seeing building 1825 being torn down. Hmmm anyone recognize their living room? Building is along the fence next to the main road where the Hallenbad is located and had a red and white radio tower next to it. This video was shot on 05 April 2011.
Glad I saw this video. Was thinking of visiting. I lived there back in the early 70s. My dad was 2/48th. I remember being in the 5th and 6th grade at the elementary school. Ms Domachowski, 5th grade teacher. Also started playing organized team baseball too. Hanau, Aburg, Budigen. Cool time in my young life back then
I was on a site, and my first grade teacher just the other day.
This breaks my heart and soul.
As to why these historical sites are destroyed will never ceases to haunt me.
I his happened to Flint Kaserne where I was in 1983 former SS-Junkerschule. I plugged all my memories and heart into the lost legacy there, Ghosts Of Bad Tolz on Amazon.
I feel for you that served and lived your lives there. Such a horrible sight, at least to me
This was our home for 3 years. We lived on the first floor. sad to see it go
Nedra Innerarity me too in 89-92😢😢😢
I was also stationed in the HHC 1/48th infantry 3rd Armor Division Building 1604, 1980 through 82. Very beautiful town and people. It was during the cold war with East Germany's Fulda Gap border 40 Kilometers away. Every time we had an alert we did not know if it was time to fight or not, very intense in those days.
Awe....I lived in two of these buildings! So many memories.💓
Jeff Schaeffer
I was in B 1/33 84-86. Had a lot of fun. Right out of High school,now 53 yr old and wonder where time went! It was a beautiful town full of history. Great food and good people. I miss Silke Doris Kaa.
and Norbert,friends I had made.
I remember that place. Went to school across the street. Used to play AYA baseball.
My Dad was stationed, at the Coleman Kaserne, with the 2nd of the 6th artillery from 1965 - 1969, before he was sent to Vietnam. We lived in the dependents quarters, and then had to move off base, to Lieblos while he was gone. I don't remember the number of our apartment building, but we lived right across the street the soccer field. While my Dad was stationed there, we used to spend a lot of time on the base at Coleman Kaserne, and occasionally made friends with some of the soldiers. We liked the movies, the gym, the snack bar, the bowling alley, the P.X., the Boy Scouts (and would camp up above the base some times) and occasionally the mess hall. My mother stayed in Lieblos after 1974, so I was able to see the base and the apartment buildings before and after it was renovated. I was in the Army from 1974 to 1976, but I didn't get a chance to visit there during that time, but I did get to visit there 6 or 7 times there after!!!
George do you remeber what Battery your dad was in? I was in A Battery 68/70. I wss called Gibby.
Thanks Brother. I was Echo Co. 1-48th then HHC 1-48th/4-18th S-3. I drove HQ-3. '87-'90. BLOOD & GUTS!
I was one of the last tenants in this housing, in 2007 (I PCSd out in June); there were maybe four families left with me. Very lonely! Still, it's crazy seeing it go down.
Lived there 73-76. Wow, brings back memories.
Oh my - my husband and I lived in this building on the second floor from 1992-1994. Matter of fact that larger second floor window was our dining room window. Great memories, so sad to see it being torn down.
I to recall these, lived there from 86-89 lol I remember running through those attics to, and getting my butt whooped when my mom found out lol THANK YOU
Yeah I remember back in the 60s there was a playground between the buildings and one day a guy landed in the trees with a parachute and we made hammocks out of it. Some kids were tossing rocks one day and one caught the corner of my left eye and I walked around the front before anyone noticed the blood gushing from it. Also some kids started a fire in the dump and set a bunch of tires on fire. I swear I have no idea who it was. Lol the good old days.
Awww so sad we lived there from 97 to 99.
We lived in building 1817, across from the elementary school and commissary. Stationed there from 81-84.
Not sure but we might have lived in same building and have known each other or my parents.we lived in last staiwell on 2nd or 3rd floor cant remember.right above the little park
I lived in that building for 7 years..... what memories! Started off on the 4th floor on the end (already demolished) and moved to 1st floor, same end. Finally left when the 3AD closed down after DS.
I ran by there for morning PT many times in 1981.
I lived there as a young man from 81 to 84 right across the street from the elementary school.went to the school and hanau high.i was on the baseball team that nearly went to the little league world series but we lost championship game in the european tournament.still cant get over that loss lol.we were the gelnhausen giants and i remember my friends reggie and quinten were on this team also.we were very good.
Wayne Henrick , I lived in the bldg all the down the street from the school on the left, the AYA bldg was behind our bldg. I was in grades 1-3, 1960-1963.
1st grade. Mrs Yearian,
2nd grade, Mrs Foster,
3rd grade, Miss Kutzer (or Kuntzer?).
Lived in bldg 1814 5th thru 7th grade Our little league team was the Braves
@@gfield50 we had a German teacher there i think her name was Mrs Krause or something like that.she always took us on field trips all over germany.down the Rhine to all the castles just all over.it was cool
@KevinDR1987 I live in G-town and own an appartement in the old officer housing. Those three Buildings were rebuilt with balconys. If you want, I can sent you Pics
i dont know if you know why they destroyed the coleman kaserne so im just going to tell you what they made of the space where the coleman kaserne used to be (in case you are interested in it) they made something like a shopping mall. its called coleman park and they also made some appartements out of some of the buildings. they look quite nice. So i think they didnt destroyed the coleman kaserne for nothing because many of you are dissapointed i think it was a good choice to build the ''Coleman Park'' out of the Coleman Kaserne :) so with that beeing said i want to excuse myself for my horrible english im only 15 years old and still visiting school (9th grade)
-greetings from gelnhausen :)
Dude, your English is better than my Deutsch!
Wow. I lived there from 1996 to 1999. I don't know why this video makes me so sad. I use to smoke weed and hash in those attics with friends.
We were there from 86-90. We lived in bldg 1814 apt 10.. I attended the elementary school across the street... I had so many great memories there..
So many memories... sigh
we lived in 1814. it was 114 when we moved there in 59 then they renamed it 1814 apt 1
We lived there from 1993-97. My apt. was on the first floor. Bambi's restaurant was rt outside the fence next to it and across from the school. We had an amazing time while there. They had a giant festival one year that was basically throughout most of Gelnhausen. It was a big one I forgot the name but we walked out of housing into the festival all through the town. It was such a cool thing to experience. My youngest daughter was born there at the krankenhaus. I made some really great friends too. So sad to see it go down.
its called the "Schelmenmarkt" and its still every year :)
not all buildings were torn down. still a lot of them exist. they were renovated and are now apartments.
I was stationed there 1973 to 1976, 2nd Bn.6th FA regiment
i was there from 86-89 and i remember every bit of living there as a kid. i lived in bldg 1816 apt #14 on the 3rd floor overlooking the b-ball court. it's sad that they're tearing that place down. i had so many good memories there from trips to german elementary schools in an exchange program to trips to KFC. lol!!! they had some of the best ribs on the planet!!!
Even the Germans thought living in these was low brow. I never understood how they let families come over. 3x the cost!
Was in the 1/48 1974-1977 I lived in the quarters that are being torn down
ronnie dixon that was the same time period I lived there. I was just a little boy. My dad was a retention nco. Very happy memories.
Thanks for sharing this with Paul and I ... I had no idea that they were tearing stuff down there. Good ol' Gelnhausen ... I was a teen during that same time, taking the bus to Hanau for High School. Remember Pete and his wife with the doberman on the first floor :) My love for dobermans started then!!!
building 53 on coleman needed the demolishing the most lol
I live in Bldg 1825 in 1983-1985. we lived in the last stairwell next to the tower. 3rd floor. My kitchen overlooked the football field. My daughter loved watching them play.
Was 1825 the building with the balconies?
I believed we lived in 1825 also. The balcony building. Second or third floor next to the big green gate. Across the street a mini-mall. Im a flight attendant now and flew over 20 yrs later to see. Its all condos now. 😰
I miss Germany. And that pizza place called Bambi's.. remember?
I was there in 81 to 84 as a young teen.played on the football team.might of seen me out there more than likely lol
Born there in 1990
Looks like 45th support building for commo down by the motor pool to me, took many a radio in there to get those guys to look at was ,86-89 was 31 victor assigned to headquarters HHC 1/48thth or 4th/18th Inf Bat too many years ago to remember which unit name we swapped to from the other , they both most likely gone by now . Good times there ,was on 3rd floor of building up by the (duck pond ) remember that nasty thing lol.
Hi James Harper, I'm Patrick mendez I was there about the same as a 63-t in headquarters barracks, 1st Sargent Murray was in charge back the all the way to deactivation. Your name sounds
So familiar, so my hats off to you and I hope all i well
I was there from 1978-1981, C1/33 Armor, Men of War!
That sucks 2 years of life there
I lived in 1815 so sad
@ detroitinterior: bldg coordinators weren't picked because of how outstanding they were. they were picked because they were the senior soldiers in the bldg. my stepdad was the bldg coordinator of our bldg
Is this the housing area in front of the Kaserne on Barbarossastr. or the area behind the Kaserne ? Vor oder hin die Kaserne?
84-88 ill miss it remembering the dya as we called it then remember when they first put the fence around it and those school lunches we got if anyone was there from the years posted please comment my is Damien Adams
What about building 1817? do you know any thing about that one? Thanks.
@KevinDR1987 stay cool. search on internet for Coleman Park Gelnhausen. everything is going to be fine.
And if it wasn’t for those of us who lived here these freaking krauts would be speaking russian
Go take a look at this out on the world wide web: coleman-park.de/gelnhausen-eigentumswohnungen/. This is what they are doing with the former housing area in Gelnhausen.
Oh this is so sad
I so agree with you. I lived there in 1961. What memories.
Bldg. 1812 # 10, 1964-66
Why was it torn down?
its now called coleman park. still many buildings exist. only the outer ones were torn down. you can look it up on google maps