Railway barracks (Munich)

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GermanyGermany (official flag) Railroad barracks
Today's Hedwig-Dransfeld-Allee can be seen in front.  Today the eastern lane of the now expanded Dachauer Straße runs along the track on the left in the picture.

Today's Hedwig-Dransfeld-Allee can be seen in front.
Today the eastern
lane of the now expanded Dachauer Straße runs along the track on the left in the picture .

country Germany
local community Munich
Coordinates : 48 ° 10 '  N , 11 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '50 "  N , 11 ° 32' 34"  E
Opened 1888/89
owner Federal Ministry of Defense,
Technical Relief
Organization, Munich Student Union
Formerly stationed units
Railway
Battalion Military District Administration  VI
German EmpireWar Ensign of Germany (1903-1919) .svg
GermanyFlag of Germany (state) .svg
Railway barracks (Bavaria)
Railroad barracks

Location of the railway barracks in Bavaria

The railway barracks was a military property at the Munich location , which was built from 1888 to 1889 and existed from 1890 to 1976.

location

The "barracks of the railway battalion" was located east of Dachauer Strasse , north of the barracks barracks Oberwiesenfeld . Today the complex of the Munich Bundeswehr Administration Center is located on the western edge of the Olympic Park .

history

Originally and primarily was barracks from the railway battalion of the Bavarian army used the 1890 by Ingolstadt had been transferred to Munich.

From the end of the 1950s, the barracks were used by the Bundeswehr . In the 1970s, part of the site was sold for the construction of the Olympic Park . Other old buildings had to give way to the construction of the Bundeswehr data center, the administration building of Defense Division  VI (today: Munich Branch of Defense Division SÜD) and today's canteen building.

After the Military District Command VI had moved to the Waldmann barracks , further parts of the site between Hedwig-Dransfeld-Allee and Schwere-Reiter-Straße were sold to the city of Munich for the construction of residential buildings in the mid-1970s .

Today, located on the former site of Eisenbahnkaserne among others, the branch office Munich of Wehrbereichsverwaltung SOUTH (formerly Wehrbereichsverwaltung VI), the Medical Office of the Bundeswehr (since 2002), the troop service court south , the Kreiswehrersatzamt Munich, the Bundeswehr Service Center Munich, a service station of LH Bundeswehr clothing company and the Bavarian State Association of the Technical Relief Organization .

Some of the original barracks buildings north of Hedwig-Dransfeld-Allee have been preserved to this day and are among the last remnants of Munich military buildings from the 19th century.

The large main building was rented by the Munich Student Union in 2003 , renovated by the architect Christoph Maas under monument protection regulations and is used at times as a student residence . The city of Munich awarded the renovation work the "Honorary Prize for Exemplary Renovation 2005".

War memorial for the Bavarian railway troops

Today a war memorial to the First World War commemorates the Bavarian railway troops on the site . The memorial on Dachauer Strasse originally created by Karl Badberger in 1922 was destroyed in 1945 and rebuilt in 1965.

See also

Web links

Commons : Railway Barracks  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Military , City of Munich.
  2. Bayernviewer monument ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation; requires Java Script  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geodaten.bayern.de
  3. Brochure of the former Hedwigs-Dransfeld-Alle residential complex , Munich Student Union