HANAU GERMANY
SOURCE: (GLOBAL SECURITY)
Wolfgang Kaserne, as a result of enormous construction, is currently a modern facility housing the Hanau military comunity’s shopping and entertainment district.
Wolfgang Kaserne, present site of the main exchange and commissary, was originally built in the Bulau Forest before WWI and served as one of the king’s powder factories during that war. It was dismantled shortly after the end of the war. It was upgraded between 1936 and 1938 by the former “Herresamnt” for use as an ammo depot. It served as an ammunition depot during WWII and as a research and development site for ammunition and chemical warfare materials before being taken over by the Americans.
SOURCE: (WIKIPIDA)
Soon after the occupation of the demilitarized Rhineland, Wolfgang got a larger military garrison: in 1936/37 the Argonner barracks were built southwest of the housing estate, in 1938/39 the pioneer barracks west of the Hanau-Bebra Railway. Particularly striking is the fan shape of the pioneer barracks with extensive open spaces for parking vehicles and its own connection to the railway line.
The barracks, which were only slightly damaged, were taken over by the US Army after the Second World War and expanded (Pioneer-housing, Wolfgang-Kaserne), whereby the name largely remained unchanged. However, the name of the Argonner barracks was prejudiced, as it was chosen during the Nazi era to commemorate the battles of the First World War in the Argonnerwald. However, the Meuse-Argonne Offensive was also the greatest victory for the US expeditionary forces in world war I.
As part of the US garrison in Hanau, which numbered up to 20,000 military personnel, Wolfgang was significantly influenced by the Americans in the post-war period. However, private contacts between Germans and Americans were rare below the officer level in later times. This was due on the one hand to the decline of the dollar exchange rate, on the other hand to the generous equipment of the barracks with their own community center, shopping facilities, school, infirmary and sports facilities, which is why the Americans increasingly limited their lives to the isolated areas of the barracks and housing areas. The last units were withdrawn in 2008.
ARMY BARRACKS 
I was stationed on Pioneer Kaserne and worked on Wolfgang Kaserne between 1978 and 1980. It was only automotive shops that supported milatary vehicles for repair and was a big Junk Yard full of decommissioned milatary vehicles. My shop was responsible for rebuilding “duece and a halfs” (21/2 ton) to put in storage, incase the Russians decided to invade Germany. The only thing there besides the automotive shops, was the “Rad Shack” and Mess Hall
I just saw a video that turned Wolfgang Kaserne into a nice open retail mall, I sure wished that exsisted when I was stationed there.
I was the OIC of the Third Armored Central Issue Facility (CIF) 1977-1978 and the Main Supply Platoon Leader, A-Co, 503rd S&T Bn 1978-1979. The Previous OIC was CW3 Percy C. Green. He was a sharp and shrewd Chief Warrant officer who taught me what I needed to know to manage the CIF. The CIF and Main Supply Warehouses were the only occupied buildings at Wolfgang Kaserne at that time. A garbage dump was located at the back of the Kaserne.
My Dad was a finance disbursing sergeant at the kaserne from 1957-59. My Mom and I joined him in the summer of 1957. We lived in relatively new apartments in NV an area known as Sportsfield. I attended elementary school adjacent to the apartment complex.
Stationed there in 1954-55. Lived on the economy a block from the center of Hanau
I’m glad I read this about Wolfgang. I went there in 71 to 74 to pdo for truck parts. There wasn’t much there at that time. I had a friend there named Robert Tomack.
Loved it, on our way from Aschaffenburg to Hana
BEEN THROUGH THIS AREA BUT WAS NEVER STATIONED THERE. I HELP WITH SOME OF THE PAGES ON HERE BUT WOULDN’T HAVE THOUGHT OF THIS PLACE. VERY INTERESTING AREA THOUGH.
What ever happened to fliegerhorst Kasern