Heinrichmeyer’s Pension Hohenbogen was commonly called “the Hohe Bogen.” This pension at one time housed the largest contingent of American personnel and was the beginning and ending point of trick runs. It also featured a full public restaurant.

Heinrichmeyer’s Pension Hohenbogen was commonly called “the Hohe Bogen or Hohen Bogen” The Cafe was opened around 1963, but the rooms were added in 1966 and the ASA people assigned to stay there that year helped carry in and set up the furniture for the rooms as they arrived there in the spring deployment of 1966. This pension at one time housed the largest contingent (20 - 2 men rooms) of American personnel and was the beginning and ending point of trick runs. It also featured a full public restaurant.

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Hoher Bogen

Dub: (Pronounced “doob”.) A term used by Americans in Rimbach to refer to the local German people.  The etymology seems to be that Dub is the word for oak in Czech (and other Slavic languages) and calling a German “Dub” was meant to describe him/her as strong and stout like an oak tree with behavioral characteristics (e.g. stubbornness) to match.  Occasionally may have also implied that a Dub’s mind could be compared with an acorn.

Dub: (Pronounced “doob”.) A term used by American solders in Germany to refer to the German people. The term came from the sound the German Police vehicles sirens emitted, dub-bee-dub-bee-dub-bee. It was not meant to be derogatory, it was a word coined to mean German or in its plural form, Dubs, Germans.  ]

Landkreis Kötzting was an administrative district belonging to the governmental region of Niederbayern (Lower Bavaria).  It’s motor vehicles carried the license plates beginning with KÖZ. It was dissolved in 1972 as part of the local government reform of Bavaria.  Along with the former Landkreis Waldmünchen and part of Landkreis Roding it became a part of the existing Landkreis Cham which meant that the communities of Alt-Landkreis Kötzting became part of the region to which Cham belonged, i.e. Oberpfalz (Upper Palatinate). Some of the places within the old district were Rimbach, Kötzting, Neukirchen b.Hl.Blut, Eschlkam, Lam and Hohenwarth.

Pension Berzl:  Pension on Dorfstraße in the center of the village of Rimbach.  Living quarters consisted of two floors of guestrooms above an EDEKA store operated by Maria Berzl. The guestrooms did not have private baths.  Entry to the guestroom floors was by a stairway at the rear of the building off a small parking area.  The residence for the proprietor’s family occupied the part the ground floor not dedicated to the store.

OLJA 6910 SG Operating Location JA of the 6910th Security Group - designation of the USAFSS unit at Mt. Eckstein before 6910 SG in Augsburg closed.

ASA ASA was an acronym for Army Security Agency

USAFSS USAFSS is an acronym for United States Air Force Security Service

The Birdhouse A Pension in the Lichteneck section of Rimbach owned and operated by the Vogel (the German word for “bird”) family, hence the name.