Updated 6 September 2024

Original name – Eider (Artillerie) Kaserne

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1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) (Machine Gun) 1946-1947 (1)
Part 3rd/15th Medium Regiment RA 1947 (2)
64 Air Landing Light Battery RA 1948 (3)
300 Air Landing Anti-Tank Battery RA 1948 (3)

(1) arrived from Lübeck 12 Feb 46 – moved to Iserlohn 4 Apr 47
(2) arrived from Bochum west of Dortmund 5 Mar 47 – Kingsway Barracks 22 Apr 47
(3) arrived from UK 12 Mar 48 – moved to Flensburg 24 May 48

More to follow
Source: 21st Army Group later British Army of the Rhine to Mar 49

Part II

LANDJUT 1962 – 1999 ?

Situated almost in the Town Centre, just off the Parade Platz, Eider Kaserne it later went on to become HQ Allied Land Forces Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland (LANDJUT) and a basic training unit of the Bundeswehr. This was the first multi national corps within NATO. It consisted of the Danish Jutland Division and the German 6th Panzergrenadier Division. As well as Danish and German troops were half a dozen US Army personnel, 3 officers and 3 NCOs. The British contingent consisted of an officer (Major) and 3 Sgt’s (all local rank), one being the Royal Signals Cipher Operator, and the other two being RAOC.

From 1962 LANDJUT had been responsible for the defence of the Baltic Approaches from its headquarters at Rendsburg. This affiliation has now been superseded with the creation of Multinational Corps Northeast which came into being at Szczecin, Poland on 18 September 1999.

Rendsburg in 1948.

Another account about the barracks can be seen by clicking here.