Proud Kraut Posted October 6, 2014 Share #1 Posted October 6, 2014 Last weekend I visited my brother, who moved to Stuttgart recently. On my way I suddenly passed a road sign reading PATTONVILLE >>>. Well, a rather unusual name for a German city. Doing some short recce, locally and online, I learned that this district of Kornwestheim/Ludwigsburg was a U.S. housing area until 1993. And that's how it looks today: http://www.pattonville.de/servlet/PB/menu/-1_l1/index.html Some interesting pics of the nearby Airfield: http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fliegergruppe-kornwestheim.de%2Fnatur%2Fgeschichte%2Fbeaver.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fliegergruppe-kornwestheim.de%2Fnatur%2Fgeschichte%2Fgeschichteindex.htm&h=232&w=400&tbnid=Ht3Ry94CMbYhoM%3A&zoom=1&docid=_ClOXe00ZAQ6RM&hl=de&ei=-dYyVIziHMjdPfSLgVg&tbm=isch&iact=rc&uact=3&dur=941&page=2&start=18&ndsp=23&ved=0CIgBEK0DMB8 Any cold war veterans and former Pattonville-inhabitants out there? Greetings to all of you & thank you for your service over here! Lars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted October 7, 2014 Share #2 Posted October 7, 2014 Wow! That looks so typical of US bases overseas. Many of those housing areas look like the ones at Smith Barracks in Baumholder. You can pretty much make out what must have been the school. administrative buildings and a power plant. I imagine the long building in the center was probably the PX and Commissary. 1950's urban planning at its best! If you think about it, the overseas housing areas were self contained model towns. A civic planner's dream assignment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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