Wirtschaftsregion Mainfranken

Around 1,650 soldiers are currently serving at the Lagerberg
military training base, in addition to around 650 civ ilian
employees who ensure the smooth operation of the base. Among
them are indus trial mechanics, carpenters and landscape gardeners
as well as ad ministrative staff. The annual budget for Hammelburg
currently amounts to about 17 million euros. About
seven million euros of this are allocated to building maintenance
and the same amount again to property management. The Bundeswehr
spends slightly less than three million euros a year on
guarding the base. Whereas in the past it was mostly conscripts
who guarded the gate, nowadays it is employees from a security
company.
All four bases in Main Franconia together account for around 63
million euros per year in running costs such as security, building
maintenance and material procurement. A not insig nificant part
of this goes to the regional economy. Small and medium-sized
enterprises in particular benefit from the established struc tures
on site: The 1.3 million euros for the Hammelburg base’s office
supplies – office chairs, desks, printer paper, pens, paper clips
and the like – benefit regional companies just as the 2.8 mil lion
euros for main tenance do – for example, the external maintenance
of cars provided to officers, NCOs and soldiers. Part of
the training budget of around two million euros is also expected
to go to regional education providers.
Gigantische Bauvolumina
Im Rekordtempo entstehen mitten in der Hammelburger
Saaleck-Kaserne für rund 30 Mio. Euro mehrere Unterkunftsgebäude.
„Wir haben hier künftig Einzelzimmer mit Hotelstandard.
Und zwar unabhängig vom Dienstgrad“, so Leonhard.
Bisher müssen sich vier Kameraden ein Zimmer teilen, früher
waren es sogar acht. Langfristig wird die Einzelunterbringung
zum neuen Standard in Hammelburg – und das lässt sich die
Bundeswehr rund 150 Mio. Euro kosten. Das mag auf den
ersten Blick teuer erscheinen. Unterm Strich sei der Neubau
aber deutlich günstiger, sagt der Standortälteste. „Die Betriebsund
Instandhaltungskosten der alten Gebäude sind auf Dauer
einfach zu hoch.“ Die neuen Gebäude werden nach den aktuellsten
Klimaschutz-Standards gebaut, die der Staat für eigene
Neu bauten vorschreibt. Stichwort CO 2 -Neutralität.
Derzeit werden am Standort Hammelburg 55 Baumaßnahmen
mit einem Gesamtvolumen von rund 466 Mio. Euro umgesetzt.
An allen vier mainfränkischen Standorten sind es aktuell 149
Huge construction volumes
Several accommodation buildings are being built at record
speed in the middle of Hammelburg’s Saaleck barracks at a cost
of around 30 million euros. “We will have hotel-standard single
rooms here in future. These will be available for use regardless
of rank,” says Leonhard. At the moment, four soldiers have to
share a room, in the past the number was even as high as eight.
In the long term, individual accommodation will become the
new standard in Hammelburg – at a cost of around 150 million
euros for the Bundeswehr. This might seem expensive at first
glance, but, according to the garrison commander, the bottom
line is that the new building is much cheaper. “The operating
and maintenance costs of the old buildings are simply too high
in the long run.” The new buildings are being built according to
the latest climate protection standards set by the state for its own
new buildings. Hashtag CO 2 neutrality.
At present, 55 construction projects with a total volume of
around 466 million euros are being implemented at the Ham­
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