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This page is being developed to offer an updated view of the Fulda region and provide links to related web sites of interest. Those of you who revisit the city are requested to send information and photographs which can be helpful to others who are thinking of going back to have a look. If you have some question about the area that other troops may be able to answer post them on the Message Board.
Downs Barracks was vacated in March 1994. Its now belongs to the German Federal Government. Much of the west motor pool area has been leased or sold for commercial operations. The barrack building in the southeast corner of the kaserne next to the mess hall is now a police station. The City plans to make administrative use of one other building. The remaining barracks and the airfield are offered for commercial redevelopment such as has already taken place in Bad Hersfeld. A new road has been constructed to provide access to the kaserne from the north. A map downloaded in 2005 from the official Fulda website showing the former kaserne is here.
Up to 2002 the US force based closest to Fulda was the cavalry squadron of the 1st Armored Division based at Budingen. Rotations to Iraq may have altered this disposition.
Some information about the cities that we knew may be seen at the following links:
Fulda Fulda
Bad Hersfeld
Wildflecken
Meiningen
Eisenach
Italicized names are in English.
Fulda's population has grown from 42500 in 1950 to over 62000 today. The autobahn link from Kassel to Wuerzburg was completed in the 1960s. The link from Frankfurt via Hanau is complete with the exception of the last 15 km at the Fulda end. A major problem is the cost of the 1 mile long tunnel through the ridgeline at Schluechtern that connects the Vogelsberg to the Rhoen.
Driving time from Frankfurt Airport to Fulda via autobahns is approximately xx minutes.
In recent reunions our troopers have chosen to stay at the following hotels.
