Old warehouse (Koenigsbrück)
The old camp , originally called barrack camp , was the first of the barracks built in Königsbrück , Saxony . The 6.4 hectare area was built between 1892 and 1893 and was used by the military until 1990. Between 1993 and 2006 the old warehouse was gradually demolished. The only building that has been preserved is the brick building used today by the Via Regia architectural model. A subsequent use as Via Regia Park is planned.
location
The old warehouse was located to the west of the Königsbrücker Schlosspark in the square between Grossenhainer Strasse, Grenzweg, Lindenstrasse and Am Schloßpark. To the south is the Neuer Cultivation settlement, to the northwest the village of Stenz .
Use by the Saxon Army
At the end of the 19th century, the Saxon Army was looking for locations for a large training area to train the infantry. The sparsely populated Laußnitz Heath, which had also been owned by the state for centuries, seemed suitable for this. In 1892, the construction of an infantry combat firing range behind the forest school south of Glauschnitz and a barrack camp on the Scheibe near Stenz began. The barrack camp and the firing range located three kilometers to the west were put into operation on June 30, 1893 by the 106th regiment . A general, four staff officers, eleven captains, 31 lieutenants, two paymasters, 161 non-commissioned officers, the crew of 1293 and 20 horses were accommodated. Not far from the barracks camp, construction of the Prinz-Georg-Kaserne began in September 1893 behind the Königsbrück train station . On September 30, 1893, the military training area was spun off as an independent estate district "Schießplatz bei Königsbrück" from the municipality of Stenz, the first estate manager was the barracks inspector Karl Adolf Schubert. In October 1893 Königsbrück was elevated to a royal garrison town. Before the riding department of the 1st Royal Saxon Field Artillery Regiment No. 12 moved into the Prince Georg barracks , the manor district was given the new name "Garrison Administration Königsbrück" on April 1, 1895.
The Glauschnitz shooting range was widened by 100 m from 1898. The barrack camp now offered a capacity for approx. 1500 men in summer and 1050 men in winter. In 1900 it consisted of five team barracks, two officers barracks, a guard barrack, a team dining barrack, three latrine barracks, a coal shed and a horse stable. On the Glauschnitz shooting range there was a target barrack, a well, a shelter for men, a latrine barrack, a machine house, a shelter for horses, a horse stable, a cartridge house and a target shelter. The officers 'pavilion in the barracks camp was converted into officers' dining rooms in 1902.
On March 18, 1907, the Reichstag approved the establishment of a training area for the 12th Army Corps in the Otterschützer and Krakauer Heide north of Königsbrück. Because of its good suitability for infantry combat shooting, the Glauschnitz firing range was retained even after the completion of the new Königsbrück military training area . After the completion of the new camp at the military training area, the barrack camp was given the name Old Camp.
During the First World War, the reserve hospital II was also housed in the old camp. During the Weimar Republic , the old camp was only used to a limited extent; some of the barracks were rented to the city as emergency housing until 1925. Nevertheless, the camp was maintained because it had to be available to accommodate the Reichswehr if necessary . However, the Glauschnitz shooting range was abandoned. At the beginning of the 1930s, the Königsbrück off-road sports school was set up in the old camp. During the Second World War, the camp served as the headquarters of the Free India Legion from 1942 to 1944 .
Use by the Soviet Army
In 1945 the old camp was used to house war refugees from the east. Between 1946 and 1949 the first state children's facility in Königsbrück existed in the camp, around 25 school, preschool and toddler children were looked after in two rooms.
After 1945 the old camp was seized by the Soviet Army . The 44th Armored Guard Regiment Search Bator, belonging to the 11th Guards Panzer Division Dresden-Klotzsche, was stationed in the Prinz-Georg-Kaserne, parts of the regiment in the old camp.
After the reunification in the GDR , demonstrators on May 5, 1990 on the Königsbrücker Markt demanded the GSSD to clear the military training area and the other barracks . In December 1990 the units stationed in the old camp were transferred to the Röhrsdorf tank school.
Demolition and re-use
After the Federal Republic of Germany took over the old camp, which had been cleared by the Soviet Army, the Federal Administration Office had the cellars and canals of the barracks cleared of liquids contaminated with oil and solvents for approx. DM 1 million. The Sächsische Immobilien GmbH carried out the first demolition of buildings in the southern part of the camp in 1993–1994 as part of a job creation measure, which, however, was not completed after soil investigations had shown that the groundwater was contaminated with 6000 µg trichlorethylene / l and the planned construction of a residential area this could not be realized. In the following four years the area was left to its own devices and was littered. The ASB Kamenz acquired in 1998 an area of 6,000 m² in the south and the freedom to build for the new building took the demolition work for the production of a nursing home again. On July 1, 2000, the star-shaped ASB nursing home "Am Schloßpark" opened.
As part of an integrated urban development concept, the idea of a seasonal park arose in 2003, which was further developed as the Via Regia Park project in the course of the inauguration of the Ecumenical Pilgrimage Route on July 6, 2003. New groundwater investigations in 2004 showed that the contamination had been reduced naturally. The city then began implementing the plans. After the approval of funding totaling € 1,260,000 by the Free State of Saxony and the EU, the demolition, renovation and design measures for the Via Regia Park began on February 22, 2005. (Total costs with own contributions approx. € 1.46 million). In the period that followed, a development plan was drawn up. The clinker brick building was partially renovated; a playground, a football field, a barbecue area and green areas were built on the demolished areas in 2008. In 2007 the Via Regia Architectural Model Building and the Königsbrück City Information Office moved into the clinker brick building, the latter also being given a lecture hall. After the city information center moved to the graphics building on the market, the “Dresdner Heidebogen” regional tourist association has been using the ground floor in the south wing since 2011. The state company Sächsisches Immobilien- und Baumanagement (SIB) is developing the southern area adjoining the care home to the west into a residential area with an area of 12,000 m².
Web links
- Old camp - history association troop training area Königsbrück eV
- Old warehouse - City of Koenigsbrück
- Architectural model construction in the Heimatverein Königsbrück und Umgebung eV
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '49.3 " N , 13 ° 53' 39" E