William O. Darby Kaserne Fuerth
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| Photos from 2002 until 24th of May 2009 | |||
| 24th of May 2009 at Darby. The last free places at the west end will be covered or renovated. Left: The building along Steubenstraße and the backyard where the radio tower was located. |
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 The former real estate office at Steubenstraße with the NCO club in the back. |
 The real estate office with the Café Zion in the back at Steubenstraße, where some leftovers meet. |
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 No more tanks allowed here! |
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| An University will be located at Darby ("Fürther Nachrichten" from 19 February 2009). |  The bowling alley at the right and the chapel in the back. |
 The second building at the right was the AFN studio. |
 The junction Fronmueller- (from the left) and Magazinstrasse. The new buildings are a church and a retirement home (here stood the laundry). |
| Pictures from 20 July 2008 - The eastern part of Darby Kaserne. If you want to visit Fuerth and its kaserns you can stay overnight in the former CIA buldings at Darby. See Hotel Prima Vera (right) |
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 Bld 88 |
 Bld 84 |
 Bld 84 |
 Bld 82A and the former garages. |
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 Bld 82A. |
 Bld 82A |
 A senior people's home at the corner of Fronmueller and Waldstrasse. |
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 Bld 50. |
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 Bld 73. |
 Bld 73. |
 A roundabout in front of the PX. |
 The former Commissary, now a garden center. |
 At Fronmuellerstrasse. |
 The last old building behind the former Commissary. |
 The last car dealer at Waldstrasse. |
 Real estate offers everywhere at Darby. |
 Bld 82C, formerly horse stables. The Burger King parking lot at Waldstrasse in front. |
 Bld 82C, you can still tie your horses there. |
 Bld 82C from the back. |
 A hare at the parking lot of Burger King in front of Bld. 82C. |
| 28 May 2008: A real estate company bought the 6000 square meter area around the former radio tower which was out of operation already for a long time. A bandsaw will cut segments that will be brought down by a big crane. |
 The AFN Tower and the renovated NCO Club. |
 The renovated bowling alley. |
 The former real estate office near the AFN tower. |
| Pictures taken on 28 May 2008. |  Even the "Stars and Stripes" canterbury has been removed. |
 The tower will be cut down piece by piece. |
 A strange mixture between old and new buildings behind the NCO Club. |
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Pictures from 13 August 2007: One of the last few corners under renovation, between
Sommer- and Floessaustrasse. Bld 43 (right) and Bld 42 (far right). |
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The NCO Club will be converted into apartments (7 June 2007). |
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27 May 2007 The big warehouse Bld 27 south of the "Yellow Rose" (see left corner at the picture below, together with Bld 39) at Floessaustrasse is converted into apartments.
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The Pizza Hut at fronmüllerstrasse - still there. |
Bld 1 - the former headquarter |
The flag poles in front of Bld 1 |
Bld 1 - after the soccer world championships |
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Bld 72 (above, below) gets completely new interior work and penthouses. |
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Bld 77 - the south eastern corner is one of the last places being converted at Darby. |
Bld 65A( above), Bld 65B (below and below left) Pictures taken on 26 November 2006 |
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Far Right: Two aereal pictures from 1930 (Stadtarchiv Fürth) and from 2006 (Hajo Dietz) with Darby on the right side. Right: Bld. 77 will be converted in 100 lofts. See "Fürther Nachrichten" from 20 April 2006. Aerial pictures from 2005 by Hajo Dietz from www.nuernbergluftbild.de |
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 Bld 41 consists of two independent parts. |
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In the northeastern part of Darby a hotel is planned (see "Fürther Nachrichten" from 21 December 2005 and "Fuerther Stadtzeitung" from 18 January 2006).
Link to the
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 Bld 85, the former CIA office |
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Left: Col. Brian T. Boyle, Fürth Lord Mayor Dr. Thomas
Jung and Consul General Mathew M. Rooney (from left) after unveiling the
plaque. Right: The reception afterwards was held in the "Grüne Halle", the former darby Gym. The City of Fürth published a book about the conversion that was handed to the guests (far right). (pictures from the City of Fürth - BMPA) |
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| An idea which had been discussed on the board of the German-American
Men's Club years ago now has become true! Ten years after the closure of
this last caserne in Fürth used by the U.S. Army Dr. Thomas Jung, the Lord
Mayor of the City of Fürth together with the American Consul General, Mathew
M. Rooney and with the Commander of Grafenwoehr, Col. Brian T. Boyle, unveiled
a commemorative plaque at Darby Kaserne.
The Kaserne has in the meantime successfully been converted into a housing
area.The City Government celebrated this conversion and at the same time
reminded of the soliers that served here for peace and freedom during the
Cold War. The plaque says: "In freundschaftlicher und dankbarer Erinnerung an die hier zwischen 1945 und 1995 stationierten amerikanischen Soldaten Sie halfen, den Frieden zu sichern." (In friendly and thankful remembrance of the American soldiers stationed here between 1945 and 1995. They contributed to keeping peace in Europe.). ("Fuerther Nachrichten" from 20 December 2005 and "Fuerther Stadtzeitung" from 18 January 2006). The plaque (below left) is located at the end of Isaak-Loewi-Strasse (below, at the wall at the right). |
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6 November 2005: a sunny
but cold day at Darby Kaserne - or "Steubenkarree", as it is
called now (this means Steuben block or Steuben square). |
Around building No. 41 clockwise |
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On the left: the white building
is the former gym. Now we'll be looking around it (next row): |
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 Left: Germany has occupied the Kaserne. |
 
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The infield: The two buildings will be connected and used by a music school (above). The "Suedstadtpark" will be improved with more trees and the repair of damages throuh vandalism ("Fuerther Nachrichten" from 21 November 2005.)
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Below: in front of Bld No. 1 |
Below: at Steubenstraße |
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The former NCO Club at Steubenstraße is sold and ill be renovated. In the backyard hoses will be built. (see link). |
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Compare these four pictures with those taken on 11 June 2004 - between Building 18 and 21 |
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Some more impressions...
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Left: the former warehouse may also be converted to appartments. |
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Opening the "Südstadtpark": |
 You recognize your former gym? |
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 Below: the gym on the left, Bld 41 in the background |
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 Above and right: a retirement home is built along Steubenstrasse. |
 Compare this picture with the one four rows below |
 This row: Building 41. Above: from Floessaustrasse |
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 The nice appartments inside Bld 41 are already sold. |
 You see in the middle of ths picture that the stairs have completely been removed |
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Other parts of Darby are also under renovation: Left: the former POV Inspection |
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 Inside the former gym (all pictures from 11 June 2004). |
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 View to Bld. 41 at Floessau-strasse, partially renovated. |
 Bld. 41 under renovation |
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In front of Bld. 18, a nice garden. |
Bld. 18. |
Between Bld. 21 and 18. |
All pictures from 11 June 2004. |
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Above: the infield between Floessau- and Froenmuellerstrasse has been changed into a big park. |
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In fall the park will be opened with a festivity. Playgrounds and benches will be installed.
All pictures from 1 April 2004 |
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Above and right:
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city building authorities bet that Bld. No. 41 (above), the 210 m building
along Floessaustrasse, will be the last one sold. But they were wrong. A
property developers company bought it and intends to seperate it into 10
blocks with totally 147 appartments. The stairs will be moved to Floessaustrasse,
elevators will be built in, balconies will be added. See "Fuerther
Nachrichten" from 16 September 2003. Above right: the former gymnasium will be rebuilt into a covered market (pictures from 25 September 2003). |
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August 2004: Below: 1=former laundry, 2=main gate Steubenstrasse, 3=High School. Right: Shopping Center at the former gas station (in the middle) |
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Left: Main gate (No 2 in the areal picture) at 25 September 2003. |
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park streches between Fronmueller und Floessaustrasse in the middle of Darby
Kaserne. 350 trees will be planted. The villa in the middle is not yet sold
but in the former gym a covered market will be openend ("Fuerther Nachrichten" from 29 July 2003) |
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1995 the last Americans who left the chapel at Darby Kaserne in Fürth
prayed that one day the praise of God will here be sung again. Now, on 6 July 2003 the "Freie Christengemeide Fuerth" celebrated its opening ceremony after a long time of renovation. |
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29 May 2003: All the following pictures from that same date. |
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 The road behind the former main gate |
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 Area behind the former NCO Club |
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 The NCO Club (above) The former chapel (left) |
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Around the former AFN Building (left and middle). View from Floessaustrasse to the South. |
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 "Stars and Stripes" - still available |
 Around the Radio tower |
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Right: view from Floessaustrasse to Bld 41. Far right: the former chapel which undergoes a renovation. The benches are stored outside but covered. New appartments along Floessaustrasse in the back. |
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| The gym on the left | View to the gym and Bld 41 | ||
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Modernised appartments are
advertised in the buildings surrounding the infield in front of Bld. No
1 Left: General building plan for Darby Kaserne (April 2002). New street names and a big park in the middle. |
The former gymnasium - built
in 1934 - shall become a covered market for vegetables, fruit, fish and
cheese. |
A delegation of Chinese builders
from the Shandong area visits Darby Kaserne to investigate modern ecological
and economical living. |
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from 23 July 2002: The soil for the park admidst the Darby Kaserne is prepared. 20 000 cubic meters of earth have been moved, more than half of it had to be decontaminated. Plantation will start next year and the park is planned to be openend in September 2002 when the grass and the 350 lime trees are grown. |
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In 1890 four wooden barracks were erected on Steuben Strasse, Fuerth for
the 1st and 4th Battalion of the 14th Infantry Regiment which had
been activated by King Max I of Bavaria in 1814. These barracks were the
foundation for a caserne complex named Sedan Kaserne that was later enlarged
by two additional caserns,
the Artillery and Train Kasernes, constructed between 1900 and 1907. In
1934 the Sedan Kaserne Komplex was acquired by the Deutsche Reich.
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Sedan Kaserne, Artillery Kaserne and Train Kaserne were confiscated by the
U.S. Army in April 1945. The 26th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry
Division moved into the caserns on 25 July 1945. |
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The caserne complex was officially designated on 29 March 1949 as William
O. Darby Kaserne in honor of Brigadier General William O. Darby of the 10th
Infantry Mountain Division who was killed in action on 30 April 1945 in
Tarbole, Italy. Designation declaration (25 March 1949) from the USAREUR Historical Archive (by Gene Kuentzler). |
 17 February 2002 - The new houses are placed on the former gas station |
Building 41 19 June 1994 |
 Building 41 2 June 2000 |
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The 26th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division moved into Darby
Kaserne on 25 July 1945. Since its confiscation in 1945 until 1995, all
headquarters of the former Nordbayern District and the Nuernberg Military
Community as well as the 99th ASG and the 416th BSB have been located at
Darby Kaserne Fuerth. From the aerial photo, the left and right "thirds" of the Kaserne remain much as they were. The AFN Tower of Power still stands. Most of the buildings in the middle "third" have been removed, and construction of new appartments is underway there. |
Col. Norman McLellan unfurls the flag of the 99th ASG on 12 May 1991 in the Darby Gym |
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 15 September 2002 |
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 17 February 2002 - Bld 12 |
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