Austrian Main Guard (Mainz)

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Austrian main guard at Flachsmarkt around 1900, in the background of Schustergasse the Quintinskirche

The Austrian Hauptwache was a military building in the old town of Mainz .

After the French withdrew as a result of the last siege of Mainz on May 4, 1814 , the Allied troops entered Mainz. After the army corps had moved on, just a month later, the town was occupied by Prussian and Austrian troops with a strength of 4,500 each. Since the powers Prussia and Austria could not agree on the territorial affiliation of the areas on the left bank of the Rhine, they divided the city among themselves and jointly took over the administration; the exact nationality remained unclear at first. Organizationally, the fortress was controlled by the Central Rhine Generalgouvernement , which was subordinate to the military commission.

Flachsmarkt 1894, Hauptwache at number 1

The Hauptwache was the military guardhouse of the Austrian guards at Mainz fortress . On the ground floor there was an open arched hall with five round arches in heavy rustication , behind it the guard rooms for the officers, NCOs and commons. An attached upper floor offered space for additional rooms. The building was set up on Flachsmarkt, in the northern part of the fortress, northwest of Ludwigsstraße by the genius management under permanent Prussian management, the latter was permanently responsible for the maintenance and construction of the fortifications within the division of labor. The Prussian main guard was in the southern old town on Liebfrauenplatz .

After the German War of 1866, the main guard lost its function when the Austrians were no longer allowed to use the fortress. In 1903 the entire military complex around the flax market was demolished to make way for a department store of the entrepreneur Leonhard Tietz .

literature

  • Hans-Rudolf Neumann: The Federal Fortress Mainz 1814-1866. Development and changes. From the log cabin fortification to the stone bulwark of Germany. Berlin / Mainz / Gensingen 1986. (also dissertation, Technical University Berlin )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Bulwark of Germany (1814-1866)
  2. ↑ Ludwig Falck : Mainz - formerly, yesterday and today , p. 93 Verlag JF Steinkopf , Stuttgart 1984

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 8.6 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 14.9 ″  E