Bonte barracks

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GermanyFlag of Germany (state) .svg Bonte barracks
Bonte barracks in winter 2015

Bonte barracks in winter 2015

country Germany
local community Flensburg
Coordinates : 54 ° 48 '  N , 9 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 48 '25 "  N , 9 ° 27' 10"  E
Opened 1944
owner Private
Formerly stationed units
Kriegsmarine
Royal Navy
Bundesmarine
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United KingdomUnited Kingdom
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Bonte barracks (Schleswig-Holstein)
Bonte barracks

Location of the Bonte barracks in Schleswig-Holstein

The Bonte barracks in Flensburg - Mürwik in the district of Stützpunkt Flensburg-Mürwik is a barracks registered as a cultural monument in the district , which served as the first official seat of the Federal Motor Transport Authority and which then housed the Flensburg-Mürwik naval base command for many years . The barracks now serve as a residential and commercial building.

history

Construction and first uses of the Bonte barracks

In the 1930s the naval port of Mürwik was heavily rebuilt and expanded. The existing naval base grew in the form of large brick buildings southwards up to Ziegeleistraße. The Bonte barracks was only completed at the end of the Second World War , in 1944 and thus at the same time as the neighboring casino building . The barracks was named after Frederick Bonte , the 1940 in Narvik fallen leader of the destroyers (FdZ) of the Navy and former Freikorps members of the Marine Brigade Ehrhardt The Bonte barracks had over time different street addresses. Initially, it apparently had the address Swinemünder Straße 26 together with other buildings in the area of ​​the base until the beginning of the 2000s . It also apparently had the addition of building 9 .

Compared to some of the other neighboring buildings, the Bonte barracks was designed rather simply. The brick building of red brick has three storeys and a hipped roof . The windows were arranged evenly. On the farthest side , the barracks have a risalit with a triangular gable on each side . In the middle of this front there was still an entrance portal with an ashlar framing , which was later walled up.

The Alte Blücherbrücke is located near the Bonte barracks , where the Patria ship and the Allied Monitoring Commission were moored in May 1945 (see special area Mürwik ). After the war, the buildings at the naval port were used by the British occupying forces and industrial companies.

First seat of the Federal Motor Transport Authority

On August 4, 1951, the higher federal authority for road traffic was set up in accordance with the law on the establishment of a Federal Motor Transport Authority . The cities of Munich , Kassel , Schleswig , Kiel and Wiesbaden had applied for the office of the authority . On September 12, 1951, Federal Transport Minister Hans-Christoph Seebohm declared Flensburg to be the seat of the Federal Motor Transport Authority for structural and regional policy reasons, in accordance with the Federal Government's resolution. After the war , the number of inhabitants in Flensburg rose sharply as a result of refugees , especially from the eastern regions . In Flensburg, the authorities moved into the Bonte barracks, which officially became the headquarters of the Federal Motor Transport Authority on May 5, 1952. At that time, the employees of the new authority consisted of 120 people from Bielefeld , where the previous authority, called the collection point for messages about vehicles and drivers , was previously , and 100 people from Flensburg. A problem at the beginning is said to have been that the KBA punch cards suffered from moisture due to the proximity to water.

The growing road traffic led to space problems in the authority in the following years, so that further accommodations in the city had to be used, which slowed down the workflow. In addition, in May 1957, the German Navy moved back to the base and claimed the Bonte barracks. In 1959 it was decided to build a new building at Fördestraße 16 for the KBA. The new building designed by the architect Carl-Friedrich Fischer was moved into in 1965.

Warships in front of the Bonte barracks in May 1990

Use by the German Navy

In 1956, the Flensburg-Mürwik naval base command was put into service. The Bonte barracks was soon used as the headquarters of the naval base command. The entrance portal on the water side was apparently bricked up during this time. It can still be recognized today by the stone frame. Since then, there have been two windows in the framed walled-up area. The German Navy used the naval port with the base until the end of the Cold War . Then the conversion of the base began. In 1998 the naval base command was dissolved and the buildings of the naval port were then sold.

Re-use of the Bonte barracks

Skyline of Sonwik in summer with the Bonte barracks, far right in the picture (photo 2014)

The discussion about tearing down the historic buildings on the site ended with the fact that they were finally placed under monument protection in 1998. The Bonte barracks apparently got a new address in the first 2000s, Ziegeleistraße 16 , which it kept until around 2013.

Initially it was planned that the Federal Police should move into the barracks. The barracks were therefore gutted in 2004/2005. But the follow-up work was no longer implemented and the relocation plans were discarded. The federal police handed the building over to the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BIMA). In 2009 the barracks were again offered for sale by BIMA. Construction plan north, which at that time was already busy with the conversion of the naval port to Marina Sonwik , showed interest. The Sonwik Group took over the building in the same year. In the following year, the development plan change was prepared to enable a mixture of residential, commercial and services or a pure hotel business.

Surfer meets dolphins in front of the Bonte barracks (2016)

The renovation work began in 2012. New dormers typical of Sonwik were installed and balconies added to the building . 31 apartments were built in the north wing of the building. On the southern side, office space was created for commercial use. A little further south is the Flensburg sewage treatment plant, whose previous intense odor development has been greatly reduced since the 1990s through extensive construction measures. The renovation should be completed at the end of 2013 / beginning of 2014.

In the meantime, the Bonte barracks has been completely renovated and it has been put to new use. Today the barracks have the address Am Fördeufer 1 and 3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Lutz Wilde: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 550
  2. See Lutz Wilde: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 552
  3. a b c Flensburger Tageblatt : Ninth House for Sonwik , from November 27, 2012; Retrieved on: December 13, 2015
  4. a b Flensborg Avis : Hotel plans now also in Sonwik , on: November 3rd, 2010; Retrieved on: December 13, 2015
  5. a b Flensburger Tageblatt : Hotel for House 9 in Sonwik? , dated: November 4, 2010; Retrieved on: December 13, 2015
  6. a b c d e Lutz Wilde: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 552
  7. Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt time table ( memento of the original from August 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved on: July 25, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kba.de
  8. 50 Years of the Federal Motor Transport Authority 1951 to 2001 , p. 4 f., Accessed on: December 13, 2015
  9. 50 Years of the Federal Motor Transport Authority 1951 to 2001 , pp. 6 and 31, accessed on: December 16, 2015
  10. 50 Years of the Federal Motor Transport Authority 1951 to 2001 , p. 6 f., Accessed on: December 13, 2015
  11. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, p. 411
  12. a b 50 Years of the Federal Motor Transport Authority 1951 to 2001 , p. 7., accessed on: December 13, 2015
  13. Flensburg, Stadtgeschichte 1946–1989, tabular representation ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ); Retrieved on: December 13, 2015
  14. ^ Lutz Wilde: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 550
  15. ^ Eiko Wenzel: Zeitzeichen, Architektur in Flensburg after 1945 , p. 132
  16. List of cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein from 2013 ( memento from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on: December 13, 2015
  17. Flensburger Tageblatt : Sonwik, Bonte-Kaserne is sold , from: April 29, 2009; Retrieved on: December 13, 2015
  18. Bauplan-Nord, company , accessed on: December 13, 2015
  19. Flensburger Tageblatt : Artist Uwe Appold: Flensburg: Art for sewage workers only scrap , from: May 27, 2014; Retrieved on: December 13, 2015
  20. Flensburger Tageblatt : 8 am in the sewage treatment plant: The odor shock from Kielseng , dated: July 6, 2012; Retrieved on: December 13, 2015
  21. List of cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein (PDF; approx. 742 kB), accessed on: December 13, 2015

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