In April of 1945, most of the existing operations buildings were destroyed or badly damaged by the retreating German Army.
During the period from 1945 through 1947, the base was used by the US Army as a German POW camp. In 1948, an American Constabulary unit used the post as a base, relinquishing it to the 615th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron (USAFE). The 615th used Rothwesten alone as their headquarters until 1955 when the first elements of the 307th CR Bn moved to Rothwesten and shared the post with them. The US Army started stationing some ASA units at Rothwesten in 1955.
During the summer of 1957, the motor pool moved to its present location in Hangar No. 4. Also, during the summer of 1957, the three eighteen unit apartments in the Rothwesten community were completed. This was an event celebrated by the married men of the battalion as two, three and four bedroom apartments, which were hard to find on the economy, were now available for their families.
In 1963, 3 Transportation Companies moved into Rothwesten. They were part of the units moving from France. They had there barracks at Rothwesten, but the there Motor Pool was at Waldau Kaserne. They remained at Rothwesten till the 1966-1967 time frame.
In 1973, Rothwesten Kaserne was returned to the German Army, and became the "Fritz-Erler-Kaserne in October 1972. There were a few buildings that the US Army still used after this, and the Hawk Site that remained for a while, but the area was under control and responsibility of the German Army.
Large parts of today's commercial zone of the municipality Lohfelden, Kassel industrial Park, are located on the former premises of the company Fieseler (Plant II). The Kassel - Fieseler werks were one of the main armament firms in the the city of Kassel. The production capacity of the plant in Bettenhausen and the Kassel - Fieseler werkes plant II was not sufficient, so a new site at the airport Kassel-Waldau, the Fieseler Werk III, was built up. Fieseler also operated a factory on Rothwesten Kaserne, (Fritz-Erler-Kaserne) where the V1 flying bomb (Buzz Bomb) was built from 1944 to April 1945.
Since the start of series production in the late '30s there was not enough suitable workers in the Kassel area. The company advertised for this reason workers in the entire Reich. To supply these workers with housing more settlements sprang up, including and also between Ochshausen Crumbach. So, from a merger the two old places, the new site "Lohfelden" was formed.
List of some aircraft that were produced under license in Fieseler include:
Fieseler Fi 2 Sport Aircraft (pre ww2)
Fieseler Fi 5 Sports and trainer (pre ww2)
Fieseler Fi 98, fighter aircraft, biplane (pre ww2)
Fieseler Fi 167 torpedo bomber, reconnaissance (early ww2)
Fieseler Fi 156 (Fieseler Storch) STOL, reconnaissance (1936-1943)
Messerschmitt Bf 109
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 (start 1943)
Fieseler Fi-103, the V1 flying bomb (Buzz Bomb) (1944-1945)
At times, more than 10,000 working men and women, including thousands were Dutch and French slave laborers who worked in the three works Fieseler Kassel. The Forced Labor Workers at Fieseler Waldau had sleeping quarters under one of the buildings.
The large orchard in the modern Industrial Park,
was held over from the one created in the late 1930s.
Waldau Airfield was first used in 1918, and had it's first building in 1924 by
enterprise-Dietrich-Gobit. The Fieseler works begin in 1936, and the building
that was Gerhard Fieseler Werke III at Waldau Airfield, is still there, but the airfield is no longer there. It is part of the Industrial Park, and is at the
intersection of Gobietstraße and Falderbaumstraße in the Waldau area.
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