The name of an American military base in German?

Question

Does anyone know the name or names of a German town where a lot of American families resides during the 1980s? The specific town that I am looking for was a short drive from the base and an estimated two to five hours drive to the ruins of a castle (in the moutains).

Answer 1

Kaiserslautern (K-Town) had (in the 80's) 100,000 Americans living there.  The largest concentration of Americans outside of America.

Answer 2

I forget the name of the Army base where my husband was stationed back in the 70's, but it was located in Friedburg, Germany and many of us Americans lived there as well as in the town next to it, Bad Nauheim.  Ruins of castles are all over Germany, so it could be this one or another military base.

Answer 3

near Kaiserslautern their is a living community for us solders. they call it baumholder this my even be the name of the town. nik name the rock.

Answer 4

Wow, good luck! I was stationed in Wildflecken Germany in the 80s but there was just so many of those little bases all over the place. There are plenty of castles in Germany too. The major ones were in Cologne, Heidelberg, and one near Munich called Neu Schwanstein (spelling is probably off).

Answer 5

Everyone is right...with out a little more information it's impossible to say.

I've added some links to try and help.

Good luck!

Answer 6

you just gave the description of all the bases over their.  maybe Heidelberg?  Augsburg, hanna, their are castles all over their that are ruined.  I'm sorry but that is hard to answer with that information.

Answer 7

Oh, that will be difficult as your description would fit nearly all villages near any US base in Germany. I'd say you would be hard pressed to find a town in Germany without a castle in the mountains five hours away.

You remember any more specifics about that place?

Answer 8

I'm in Baumholder, just a 30 minute or so drive from k-town. Trier has castle ruins... The Porta Nigra. But it's closer than 2-3 hours away. I think you're probably thinking of Kaiserslautern, or Vogelweh... That's probably a 2 hour drive from Trier

Answer 9

Kaiserslautern? It's near the Vogelweh and Ramstien military bases, and all German towns are 2-5 hours away from castle ruins...:P

Answer 10

i think you may be looking for Kaiserslautern... there are several places though so i'm not really sure if that will be right?

Answer 11

Maybe Stuttgart Möhringen(Patch barracks) or

Stuttgart Vahingen(Kelly baracks)