A10 - Koblenz
May 22, 2023
We drove to Koblenz-Lützel. Researchers who searched here years earlier
encountered a wall of silent local government agencies. No Rheinwiesenlager was found
by the researchers. Nor did we find a Rheinwiesenlager in Koblenz-Lützel. One
researcher came up with barracks in Lützel, but the researcher did not conduct
an on-site investigation due to lack of more information.
One search engine on the internet gave six different hits that matched the
assignment: ‘Koblenz Kaserne’. These barracks are located in or in the far reaches
of Koblenz and sometimes east of the Rhine. There are now 3 barracks in the suburb
of Lützel and west of Lützel, there are another barracks along the left
bank of the Moselle against the town of Metternich. There is one website that lists
41 barracks in and around Koblenz.
It is not a cynical remark, but in any case it seems unlikely that barracks barracks
provided shelter for a Rheinwiesenlager. It would be very comfortable for the German
POWs to be housed, you don't put them in bunk beds in a barracks heated with
heaters. Such a thing did not fit into the policy of the Allied armed forces.
Therefore, I assume that a barracks was used by the Allied forces to exercise control
over an adjacent Rheinwiesenlager from those barracks.
Lützel lies north of Koblenz and is therefore also north of the Moselle and west of the Rhine. We parked the car, still just inside Lützel, on Neuendorfer Straße. Below us, on the slope to the Rhine, there were many tall trees and a campsite on the Rhine river bank. Because of the many tall trees, which we looked over, we could see nothing of the Rhine and Moselle below us.
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Koblenz-Lützel, topographic map |
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Koblenz-Lützel, Neuendorfer Straße, gardens on the steep slope to the Rhine |
