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Pattonville is a neighborhood in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, northeast of Stuttgart, with the unusual distinction of being a former United States military housing complex, as few U.S. installations returned to German control have been maintained in their former form.
Pattonville was a large U.S. military housing installation in West Germany during the Cold War, built and maintained by the U.S. Army from 1955 to 1992 as part of the Stuttgart Military Community.[1] The community was named for General George S. Patton (1885–1945), commander of the Third Army in World War II.
Located northeast of the city and just southeast of Ludwigsburg, Pattonville was home to Stuttgart American High School from 1955 to 1992, with a peak enrollment of 1,200 during the 1960s. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and musician Katrina Leskanich of Katrina and the Waves are among the better known students of SAHS,[2] although both graduated elsewhere. Patch American High School at Patch Barracks, southwest of Stuttgart, became the only DODEA (DoDDS) High School for the vicinity in 1992; it closed in 2015, and the new Stuttgart High School opened that fall on Panzer Kaserne, just east of Böblingen, as the sole DODEA school in the Stuttgart Military Community.
A noted feature of Pattonville was the Stuttgart Golf Club, a 7,000-yard (6,400 m) 18-hole golf course and club on 300 acres (120 ha), operated by and for the U.S. military and their families.[3] Designed by Bernhard von Limburger, it opened in 1956, adjacent to the west, and West German locals were first allowed access in 1969.[4]
Over time, the club allowed a limited number of German members and the club was transitioned to shared German control with the large withdrawal of U.S. Army personnel from Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg following the Gulf War; it is now known as Golf Club Neckar eV.[5] The American Stuttgart Golf Club is operated by the U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Office.[6] The golf course and club are the only remaining link to the former U.S. installation.
Following the withdrawal of most Army units in the area after the Gulf War, the installation was returned to the German government. Largely a housing complex, Pattonville was opened in 1994 as apartments for the local German population, and the former Stuttgart American School complex is now in use as the Erich-Bracher-Schule.[7] The former military airfield supports the rescue helicopter "Christoph 51", which was relocated there due to air traffic congestion at Stuttgart Airport.[8] It has become a recreational aerodrome, with the German civilian ICAO code EDTQ.[9]
Jurisdiction of the area had been shared by the cities of Remseck and Kornwestheim, eastern and southern neighbors of Ludwigsburg, respectively. The irregular boundary between the two cities was realigned along John-F.-Kennedy-Allee, Pattonville's central spine, so that the western half belongs to Kornwestheim, the eastern half to Remseck. Pattonville's current population of approximately 6,000 (2013) is split between the two cities. The streets, named after various U.S. states, are a reminder of the postwar American military presence.
Coordinates: 48°52′24″N 9°13′27″E / 48.87333°N 9.22417°E
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~ clearthought 18:06, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Your edit to Evolution has truncated the article - losing the final several paragrpahs, including See Also, Ext Refs, categorisations, interwiki, etc. etc. I would have reverted - but this would have lost your edits. You should think about repairing the article - otherwise someone else is likely simply to revert. Thanks, Ian Cairns 13:43, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
About this edit summary, you should provide meaningful edit summaries for major reversions. --JWSchmidt 13:45, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the reference.
My major problem with the opening paragraph is that this:
"Evolution is ultimately the source of the vast diversity of life: all contemporary organisms are related to each other through common descent as products of cumulative evolutionary changes over billions of years."
Is tantamount to claiming that a single common ancestor is an established fact. This is beyond what the current evidence shows, and it is uneccessary. My edit to:
"Evolution is potentially the source of the vast diversity of life: theoretically all contemporary organisms may be related to each other through common descent as products of cumulative evolutionary changes over billions of years."
Keeps it as a theory with the tentativity expressed. The rest I can do without, though it is important to me -- especially in arguing against creationists -- that we be clear on the boundaries of evolution and abiogenesis, that evolution starts with some initial population to act on, and abiogenesis is how that first population may have developed:
"In biology, evolution is the change in the heritable traits of a population over successive generations, as determined by the shifting allele frequencies of genes."
And that the theory of Common Descent is the bridge between abiogenesis and the facts of evolution we observe today.
When it comes to the origins of life I am willing to say "we don't know (yet)" and that included in that "we dont' know (yet)" is the possibility of several independent life forms or proto-life forms in the initial stages (perhaps some even using D-amino acids: we don't know).
Horizontal gene transfere in early unicellular organisms can easily act to homogenize the kinds of replication systems used with the best system(s) becoming universal by Natural Selection.
paul 03:27, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
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