At Truppenübungsplatz Heuberg, about 3 kilometres from Lager Heuberg, the first vertical take-off manned rocket flight took place on 1 March 1945 and crashed, killing its pilot,
Lothar Sieber, in the
Bachem Ba 349 "Natter" rocket.
History
1910 XIV Armeekorps of the German Imperial Army establishes Lager Heuberg and the training camp
1914 POW camp
1917 5,000 soldiers and 15,000 POW's
1920–1933
Treaty of Versailles limits German Army to 100,000. Camp is converted into a children's home and hospital
1933 Converted into the first
concentration camp in Württemberg/Baden, in use for 9 months
1945 1 March. First vertical take-off manned rocket flight, piloted by Luftwaffe lieutenant,
Lothar Sieber, who was killed in the
Bachem Ba 349 "Natter" rocket
1945 22 April French troops arrive and free 20,000
Red Army POW's
During 1962–1963, U.S. troops (357th Artillery Detachment) are reputed to have kept nuclear warheads at Lager Heuberg that would have been issued for the use of French
Nike-Hercules Missile units had a war with the
Soviet Union occurred.[3]
German units recently quartered at Lager Heuberg
Panzerpionierkompanie 550
Artilleriebataillon 295
Feldjägerbataillon 452
Zentrum für Kampfmittelbeseitigung der Bundeswehr
Truppenübungsplatzkommandantur Heuberg
5. Kompanie (schwer) / Jägerbataillon 292
V. und VI. Inspektion ABC/Se Schule Sonthofen
Sanitätszentrum Stetten a.k.M.
Bundeswehrdienstleistungszentrum Stetten am kalten Markt
^See entry of one fallen or deceased soldier of the "Marsch-Btl. Franc Garde, Lager Heuberg" in two lists of the Tuebingen Friedhofsamt (i.e. roughly the municipal Office of Sepulchre). First list: Kriegsgraeber Ehrenfriedhof A, B, C, E Nr. B 58. Second list: Oeffentliche Kriegsgraeberliste vom 11. Januar 1954.