BAD KISSINGEN

This page is being developed to offer an updated view of the Bad Kissingen 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.

Daley Barracks was built in 193x.  The 2nd Battalion occupied it in July 1961.  It was vacated in Feb. 1992 when the 2-11 CAV returned from duty in Kuwait and relocated to Wildflecken   All barracks buildings and motor pool sheds have been razed to make way for new construction, some of which has already begun.  The mess hall building has been converted to business offices.  A youth recreation center occupies the PX and EM Club.  The NCO Club is a city police station.  The Marine Hotel  and the club annex is vacant.  The family housing area along Pfalzstrasse next to the kaserne has been occupied since 1994 by families of US troops based in Schweinfurt.  We understand that it will be vacated by July 2005.  Camp Wollbach served for several years as transient housing for refugees from the east.

If you "patrol" out to the sites of our former OPs you will find that most of the roads are now hard surfaced and the traffic consists of more than a few Mercedes.  Nearly all traces of the border fence, 10 meter strip and guard towers have been removed.  In Meiningen the main Soviet kaserne, which was in extremely sad shape when vacated in 1992, has deterriorated even further and will probably have to be demolished.

Up to 2002 the US force based closest to Bad K was the cavalry squadron of the 1st Infantry Division based at Conn Barracks north of Schweinfurt.  Rotations to Iraq may have altered this disposition.

Some information about the cities that we knew may be seen at the following links:
 

Bad Kissingen Wildflecken	Meiningen Coburg
Italicized sites	are in English

In Bad Kissingen the center of the city is a Kurgaeste zone and vehicle access is restricted.  If you approach from the autobahn or from Schweinfurt use Ringstrasse to reach the sector of the former kaserne.  Ringstrasse was constructed in the early 1960s when the Buergermeister, via a strategy in which 2nd Squadron played a key role, secured funding from the Bonn Government.

Driving time from Frankfurt Airport to Bad Kissingen via autobahns       is approximately xx minutes.

In recent reunions our troopers have chosen to stay at the following hotels.