Building 1306

In 1951, during the Cold War, French occupying forces founded an air base in Hahn, west Germany. In September 1952, however, the American and French Commanders signed an agreement which provided for the transfer of Hahn air fields to United States Air Forces (USAF) control. USAF then began to erect the seventh largest USAF base in Europe and the second largest in Germany. The initial USAF unit at Hahn was the 7356th Air Base Group, whose mission was to get the base up and running and into an operational state. Also during September 1952 the U.S. phase of construction began and during the next few years additional construction at Hahn included seven military family housing facilities, five troop facilities, hangars, covered revetments, alert taxiway and other miscellaneous structures. In 1993, after the Cold War end, the U.S. Air Force left the Hahn Air Base. The buildings were then left vacant and to abandon. Building 1306 was, amongst others, one of them. This series of photographs portray the actual state of the buildings after the inoccupation period in which they still remain.