Benjamin Franklin Village, also called BFV, was a United States Army installation in Mannheim-Käfertal, Germany.
The approximate total population in Mannheim assigned prior to closure was 15,000 which consists of: Army active duty, 4,000; Air Force active duty, 200; Army family members, 6,484; Air Force family members, 197; civilian employees and family members, 3,266 and US military retirees, 727.
The closure of Mannheim and Heidelberg Kasernes is estimated to save the US $112,000,000 per year in operational costs starting in 2016.
[2] Benjamin Franklin Village and the other Army Kasernes in Mannheim are scheduled to be returned to the German government after the US removes all of its property from the site.
[3] Parts of the buildings were used to host some hundred asylum seekers and refugees starting September 2015.