page_title: Field Marshal Rommel Barracks, Augustdorf
section_title: The Rommel Barracks today
hierarchical_section_title: Field Marshal Rommel Barracks, Augustdorf / The Rommel Barracks today
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Augustdorf: Bundesverteidigungsministerin Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) während ihrer Sommerreise 2014 in der Generalfeldmarschall-Rommel-Kaserne
context_page_description: The Field Marshal Rommel Barracks, Augustdorf is a German Army military base located in Augustdorf in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and the largest base of the German Army. The brigade staff and most of the units of the 21st Panzer Brigade are located there. Around 4,300 soldiers serve there.
  The base is located on the southern edge of the Teutoburg Forest, the scene of one of the most iconic battles of the Roman era, and directly adjacent to the Sennelager Training Area where German soldiers train together with British soldiers and other NATO partners.
  Named in honour of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the street address of the base is Gfm.-Rommel-Straße 1. The base shares its name with the Rommel Barracks, Dornstadt; a similarly named base, the Field Marshal Rommel Barracks, Osterode, closed down in 2004.
context_section_description: The barracks houses around 4,300 soldiers. It is located adjacent to the Sennelager Training Area, where the soldiers train together with soldiers of other NATO countries, mainly British soldiers. Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen has described the Rommel Barracks as one of the most important installations of the German military.
  The Field Marshal Rommel Barracks is also known for the triannual Augustdorf Soldier's Day (German: Augustdorfer Soldatentag or AST), a military exhibition which has been the largest annual public event of the German Army several times, with tens of thousands of visitors.
caption: Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen during a visit to the Rommel Barracks in 2014
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