A Look Back: Camp Lindsey

 Third in my series, for the folks who were based in Wiesbaden from the 1960s to the 1980s.  Today's topic?  Camp Lindsey, on Highway 262 exiting Wiesbaden on the SW.

So if you walked out into the 'quarter', you'd say that 50-percent of the buildings are familiar, and that the rest are new apartment/condo structures.

A couple of German government groups took over a building or two.  VHS (the community college of Wiesbaden) took over several entire buildings.  The police have a district group in one building.  There's one single restaurant on the whole Camp Lindsey area.  

Kentucky Fried Chicken is across the street from the 'quarter'.

The German Federal Criminal office took up the more impressive structure on the far west side of the 'quarter'.

The old gym?  Still there.

Picture to the right?  Main drag of the 'camp'.

The ball field?  Well....half of it remains and is used for kid's soccer in the district.  The other part was converted over to be a Edeka grocery operation with apartments above it (one of the largest buildings in Wiesbaden today).  On the corner of the grocery, a nifty bakery with outdoor cafe seating (probably one of the better bakeries in this part of town).  

Street names?  Some changed....some stayed the same.  The main 'drag' from east to west is Willy Brandt Strasse today, and you can't drive the entire route (they made up some funny rule to forbid total access to the street unless you are a bus).  To enforce it, they put up a blitz-camera.

Good re-use?  I'd suggest that this was probably a five-star plan.  

Note, if you were looking for parking in this 'quarter'?  You would be screwed.  It's one of the worst areas of Wiesbaden to find an open parking spot.