Biedrusko

52.53303616.894226Koordinaten: 52 ° 31 ' 59 " N, 16 ° 53' 39" E

The military training area Warthelager, also called Truppenübungsplatz poses, built north of the city of Poznan in 1904 on the territory of the Prussian province of Posen. He was one of the largest and most advanced military training areas of the German Empire.

History

The military training area was built on the previously abgesiedelten compensation against land in the following villages:

• Provost Pig Skull (Polish Chojnica )
• Knischin
• Trzuskotowo
• Tworkowo
• Biedrusko

The training area was part of the Vth Corps with headquarters in Poznań.

This abgesiedelten villages were then used mostly as an exercise villages, winning almost every new place names. These place names were based on battlefields of the Franco-German War of 1870 /71 and the German-German War of 1866 The following local name changes have been made.:

• Knischin = Skalitz
• Trzuskotowo = Wörth
• Tworkowo = Nachod
• Biedrusko = White Castle

The military camp was built near the town of White Castle. For military camp was also an officer Casino, a running lightweight standard building as about the same time in other German military training areas ( Altengrabow Arys Doberitz, Hohenlockstedt, Munster) was built. Your old officers' mess is only preserved as a ruin. In contrast, Castle White Castle is restored ( until 1900 the seat of the family of Tresckow ) and now houses dining options.

As of 1918, large parts of the Prussian province of Posen by the re-established Polish state were annexed. For those parts of territory counted also the area of the training area poses. From 1918 to 1939, the Polish army took advantage of the training area.

In 1939, the military training area, as the entire territory of the former Prussian province of Posen, in the wake of the German Polish campaign again part of the German Empire. The location now called Warthegau military training area was put into operation shortly after the end of combat operations by the German Wehrmacht back. The use by the German military was a total of just 20 years ( 1904-1918 and 1939-1945), while the Polish army took the place over 70 years.

In the spring of 1945, the area the scene of fighting between erupting from the area of the enclosed fortress poses German troops and Soviet army units ( Battle of Poznań ) was.

Truppenübungsplatz Biedrusko

From 1946 until early 1994 did the Polish army the land as a military training area Biedrusko. During this period, the area was expanded to the areas of the following towns:

• Glinienko ( German: Weidental )
• Glinno ( German: Lehmberg )
• Lagiewnik ( German: Erdmann Walde )

Conservation area Biedrusko

Since 1994, large parts of the site are protected. The training area was converted to the protected landscape area Biedrusko as part of a conversion project. The site has been designated by the European Union as a conservation area under the Natura 2000 program.