Daun barracks

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Daun barracks

The Daun barracks in Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria was built by the German Wehrmacht from 1939 to 1940 as a course building in the academy park south of the castle .

history

The barracks were built on the site of a swimming pool. The spacious three-storey complex has two inner courtyards in the north and an open courtyard to the south. The facade has an entrance project with round arches facing the Burgplatz . The windows have a stone frame. The foyer and the ballroom were designed with monumental stone columns.

The building, which was damaged during the war, was repaired from 1948 to 1949 and made available to the city schools from 1950. After Wiener Neustadt became a garrison again in 1956 , the evacuation of the building began in stages in order to make it available to the Austrian Armed Forces , which moved in on September 14, 1956. Since Feldjäger Battalion 1, which was relocated here from Graz, moved in first, the training building was now called Feldjäger barracks. A few days after the first conscripts had moved in, the troops moved into Burgenland to secure the border because of the popular uprising in Hungary . Between December 15 and 20, 1956, the Feldjäger battalion was relocated to its location, including Wiener Neustadt. Various units were stationed or set up here over the next few years.

On December 20, 1966, the barracks was named after Field Marshal Leopold Joseph Graf Daun, who lived in the 18th century in Daun-Kaserne. Today the Daun barracks is run as a school battalion with two companies.

The A company forms the Bundesrealgymnasium for working people (soldiers) (BRGfB). There, soldiers without a high school diploma are given the opportunity to take the high school diploma after successfully completing the batch course in order to be able to embark on an officer career at the Theresian Military Academy . The B Company formed the Military Real High School (MilRG), in which pupils of both sexes could attend a federal upper level high school as a boarding school with accompanying military training. This school was closed in June 2018 and is intended by the Federal Trade Academy for Leadership and Security at the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt be replaced

literature

  • Rudolf F. Marwan-Schlosser : barracks, soldiers, events. Barracks and military facilities in Wiener Neustadt, Bad Fischau, Wöllersdorf, Katzelsdorf, Felixdorf-Grossmittel-Blumau . Weilburg-Verlag, Wiener Neustadt 1983, p. 44 f., ISBN 3-900100-09-8 .
  • Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria south of the Danube. Part 2. M to Z. Wiener Neustadt. Academy park. Buildings in the academy park. Daun barracks. Bundesdenkmalamt , Verlag Berger, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8 , p. 2649.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orf.at: Security school should start in autumn . Article dated June 14, 2019, accessed June 14, 2019.

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 31.3 "  N , 16 ° 14 ′ 43.7"  E