!!!Truppenübungsplätze

Military Training Areas have been established for the Austrian Armed 
Forces since the 18%%sup th/%  century (Hloubetin near Prague, 
Turas near Brno, Muenchendorf to the south of Vienna). The military 
training grounds at Bruckneudorf close to the Kaisersteinbruch (today 
barracks and shooting range) were established in 1867, shortly after 
the introduction of universal compulsory military service. In 1878 the 
Schuettachgraben hollow near Hochfilzen (Tirol) was enlarged, made 
into a shooting range for the artillery and used until 1908; in 1938 
it was taken over by the Wehrmacht (German armed forces); when the 
Austrian Armed Forces were re-established in 1955 it became a shooting 
range of the Austrian Army

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Several military training areas were established by the Wehrmacht in 
Austria. The largest military grounds were established at Doellersheim 
in the Waldviertel: from 1938 onwards the population of a large area 
situated between Allentsteig and Kamp, the monastery of Zwettl and 
Neupoella (42 villages, 6,800 people, 6 farmsteads, 10 mills, 1,389 
houses, alt. 470-630 m) was forcibly resettled. In 1941/1942 
the municipalities were gradually abolished and the area converted 
into military property. Between 1945-1955 Doellersheim was used by the 
Soviet army, later the area was reduced to 157 km%%sup 2/%, 
handed over to the Austrian army and renamed Allentsteig training 
area. Other military training areas in Austria are: Dachstein/Oberfeld 
in Upper Austria, Lizum/Walchen in Tirol and Carinthia consisting of a 
number of small military grounds, and Seetaleralpen in Styria.

!Literature
L. Gros, Uebungsplaetze des Bundesheeres heute - morgen, 
in: Truppendienst, No. 14, 1975; Der Truppenuebungslatz 
Allentsteig, Studien und Forschungen des Niederoesterreichischen 
Instituts fuer Landeskunde 17, 1991.


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