MILITARY INSTALLATIONS IN OLOMOUC BARRACKS, HOSPITALS, STORAGE, DEPOTS, AIR RAID SHELTERS INCLUDING TORN PLAN

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• Publication Date: March 21, 1958
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installations (barracks, hospitals, storage depots, air raid shelters,
etc.) in the city of Olomouc, Czechoslovakia. The report is accom-
panied by a map, shoving the locations of the various installations.
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C Z E C H O S L O V A K I A
Military
Military installations at OLOMOUC
For numbers, see map
1) Military Area H.Q.,_ a complex of buildings finished in
1938, on Dr. E. Benes Square, opposite the Regional Adminis-
tration of the Ministry of the Interior and the STB. Trida
Marsala Stalina passes through the square and leads to the
station. The actual HQ for the OLOMOUC and GOTTWALDOV areas
is in a three-storeyed building, and is subordinate to the
Ministry of National Defence. There are three HQs for
tactical units in TMaravia, at OL0-11OUC, BRNO and OSTRAVA, and
GOTTWALDOV and part of the JIHLAVA region are distributed
under them. All branches of the services, including the air-
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are 3ebordinate to them, and these +Military Area HQs
are not identical with or connected with the Regional Military
Administration. The military training area at LIBAVA is also
subordinate to the CLOTIOUC HQ. Th HQ building contains a
telephone exchange, through which pass all calls from unit to
unit. The C.O. of the HQ is a "two-star" general.
2) Garrison HQ and Supply Corps offices, in fairly old three-
storeyed buildings near (1), on the North-east corner of the
square, with ulice Husova on the West side, ulice Slamova on
the East and the Orthodox Church at the North end; the supply
service in this complex is probably for the g rrison only.
At full strength, the OLOMOUC military area reaches the num-
ber of 60,000, including officers, NCOs and men.
3) Anti-aircraft and Signals units, in the old Terezianska
pevnustka (formerly cavalry barracks) on Nova ulice on the West
side of OLOMOUC hospital. The installation has been largely
rebuilt, with quarters and a new kitchen converted from the
old stables (a). The HQ (b) is housed in a one-storeyed 50X1-HUM
building by the original fortress. In the Eastern part is a
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transmitting station, with various aerials on the roof (c
The number of officers is comparatively large, and they wear
AA or Signals badges; the men number about 200, armed with
machine carbines. No AA guns have been seen at this
Barracks.
4) AA unit and officers' training school for AA Arty, in a
fairly old Barracks complex in the centre of the town opposite
the Tank Barracks. The East side is bounded by the river
Morava, the South by ulice Komenskeho, the North-east by ulice
Dobrovskeho, and the remaining side by trida Vaclava III.
The unit has 30 85 mm AA guns, and a considerable number of
vehicles, mostly V 3 S, both visible from the street, as they
are ranged in the middle of the yard.
The AA Arty officers' trainin
school has about 200 trainees; the CO is a Colonel and there
is a Soviet advisor with the rank of Hajor. The trainees
took an active part in the fighting in Hungary in October and
November, 1956.
5) Tank unit, in fai:?ly )ld Barracks opposite (1+) on
Klasterohradistaska ulice, with namesti Biskupa Gorazda and
ulice Pasterrova on the South side; to the North there is a
stadium and fields. The unit has 30 S - 2 tanks, I 50X1-HUM
and other vehicles. The CO io a Colonel. The
unit has engaged in the fighting in Hungary in October and
November 1956. To the-North, on the street, there is an inn
formerly belonging to ABMA n.p., frequented by both army
personnel and civilians.
6) Tank unit, armed with SD 105 self-propelled guns, 6 of
which have been observed; the exact number is not known.
The unit is billeted in fairly old Barracks in the South-east
part of OLOMOUC - NOVY SVEP, opposite the main supply stores
on Helicka ulice, and the South side is 'bounded by ulice
Josefa Nalevky and the OL07-IOUC - BRNO railway line. The
unit H.Q. is in a U-shaped ui din ? the CO is a '_~7a jor.
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This unit also took part in the fighting in Hungary.
7) Air force garrison OLO?SOUL, stationed at 0L0I.,IOUC
NEREDIN airfield, north-west of OLO:1OUC, also a former
fortress. South of the installation is Trida mire, con-
tinuing as the PRAGUE - LITOVEL road, and to the East ulice
Na sibeniku. In December 1956, the air force garrison was
transferred to PREROV - BOCEOR airfield, and the Barracks
largely evacuated, and since that time, the air craft repair
workshops have not been used. A unit of 150 to 200 men
remained to prepare the airfield for handing over to the
OLO:?COUC SVAZAR11. The purpose for which the Barracks in
the former fortress are in future to be used is not known.
8) Engineers' unit, in the Eastern part of OLO::IOUC, South
of trida ;Marsala Stalina, in an installation with the River
%.Iorava on the West side, ulice Zeyerova and Krizikova to the
North-4.ast, and the stream called Bystrioa to the North-
west. The unit numbers about 300, and the CO is a Colonel.
There is practice in building folding and ponteor bridges on
the Morava, etc, and the unit has a large amount of equip-
ment; most of the vcL^,cleS are V 3 S.
9) Garrison HQ and Barracks for a unit of the Interior
Guard, extending along the West side of ulioe Boziho tela
as for as namesti Republiky.
10) Interior Guard unit, in a former monastery, used as a
supply office, and for other purposes since the war; it is
a large square three-storeyed building on Stefanikova ulice
near the Natural History Museum, with r!Iuse jni ulice on the
West side, ulice Pekarni on the East, and ulice Kozeluzska on
the North side.
11) D um (Array House), East of (10), and on the East
side of ulic.: Pekarni, with uliee : loochova on the Fast side.
12) idil tary Hos iP tal, installed in a former monastery after
1945, in the Northern part of the town on Susilovo nantesti.
Storage installatiorrss
13) Hiilitarv supply stcMC T old military installation 98M
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in OLOMOUC - POVEL, the South-west of the town, on the South
side of Polska ulice, with ulice Jihoslovanska on the East
side; the installation consists of a group of wooden huts,
most of them built before the war; a railway track leads to
it and is constantly in use to transport all kinds of material;
fuel is probably stored here, as there is always a large
number of metal barrels in the storage area. Trucks entering
the area are covered, so it is not possible to ascertain what
kind of material they conta;.n. The depot is guarded by Works
111litia, with dogs.
14) 0,;,1 stores, in a former group of mill buildings on the West
site of the OLOMOUC Fats Industry, South of the East end of
Polska ulice; the depot is enclosed on all sides by the
river '114.orava, and consists of two five-storeyed buildings
and a number of masonry and wooden ground-floor buildings,.
a railway track leads into it. Two wooden observation towers
have been built in the area, which is guarded by both military
personnel and Works railitia; the depot supplies foodstr'ffs
for the LIBAVA military training area.
15) Supply depot and military eguiprient, 0L0-?IOUC - NOVY SVET,
opposite (6) and extending from Holicka ulice about 650 in.
alongside the OLO;,.PtOUO - BRNO railway line; it consists of a
large number of ground-floor wooden buildings containing stores
and workshops for OL0:tOUC Garrison HQ, including tailors',
cobblers' harness-makers', carpenters' and motor repair
workshops; wood, iron and leather etc. and spare parts are
stored at the depot., and vehicles involved in crashes are
brought here.
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Atonic shelters etc.
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16) New shelter, finished in 1956, on nova ulice, at the
South-wrest corner of the hospital, ferro-concrete, with an
earth rampart; it is probably for the use of the hospital.
17) Atomic shelters constructed from the original shelters
in IM,iiohalske sady East of the Capucin monastery; the original
shelters were built in 1942-45; the work of modification and
reinforcement went on from 1950 to 1956.
18) Ferro-concrete bunker;, built in 1956 on the corner at the
Havlickova-Pavelcakova/tlynska-Fierlirr,rova crossroads; the
bunker is about 4 x 3 in. and 2 in. high, the South-east side
built into the old citadel; it has loophol:s and is probably
intended to defend the approach to Masarykovo namesti from
Havlickova-Pavelcakova trida. The i,ilynsky potok (stream)
has been oanalised here as far as the point where it enters
the Bystr:.cka.
19) F orrier Barracks, now used for civilian storage purposes,
on he North side of the Dominican church and girls' s^.hool.
20) Regional administration of the 'Ministry of the Interior -
Regional StB HQ, in the forrier police station, and Gestapo
building, on the North side of noinesti Dr. E. Benes, a three-
storeyed L-shaped building.
21) District Security Department, on the West side of the
Faculty of Medicine, on Gottwaldova trida, a fairly old square
three-storeyed building.
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