Ermekeil barracks
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The headquarters of the Ermekeil barracks in Bonn |
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| country | Germany | ||
| local community | Bonn Südstadt | ||
| Coordinates : | 50 ° 43 ' N , 7 ° 6' E | ||
| Opened | 1880 | ||
| owner | federal agency for Real Estate tasks | ||
| Old barracks names | |||
| 1883 to 1918 | Ermekeil barracks |
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Infantry Regiment No. 28 9th Rhenish Infantry Regiment |
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Location of the Ermekeil barracks in North Rhine-Westphalia |
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The Ermekeilkaserne is located in the middle of Bonn's Südstadt , surrounded by houses, shops, cafés and restaurants in the style of the Wilhelminian era . The facility, which was used as a barracks from 1883 to 1918 , was the seat of various military authorities and institutions until 2013. Since then, civilian use of the site has been sought. The Ermekeilkaserne stands as a monument under monument protection .
history
The oldest buildings of the barracks built for the Prussian army were built in the historicist style as early as 1880 .
Bounded by the streets Bonner Talweg, Reuterstraße , Ermekeilstraße and Argelanderstraße , it covers a total area of 24,000 m². The area on the Bonner Talweg was later separated from the barracks area and given other uses; u. a. as the location of the telecommunications office. Despite this large total area, the main striking features are the large brown team building and the red staff building , a Wilhelmine building from 1904. The officers' mess was outside in a spacious villa on the Kessenicher section of the Bonner Talweg (Bonner Talweg 177).
1883 to 1944
The first unit that occupied the barracks on March 31, 1883 was the II. Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Regiment Rheinisches. 28, 1889 in Infantry Regiment "von Goeben" (second Rhine) no. 28 was renamed . He was followed on April 1, 1887 by the 2nd Battalion of the 160th Infantry Regiment .
After the First World War , the German Reich sold the barracks to the city of Bonn in 1920 in order to be used in part as accommodation for the less well-off. At the time of National Socialism, the military district command moved in.
1945 to 2013
In the newly founded Federal Republic of Germany , the Ermekeil barracks was the seat of the press and information office of the federal government for a few years from 1950 and, under the sign of the Cold War, from 1951 the seat of the "Commissioner of the Federal Chancellor for questions related to the increase of the Allied troops" (after the head of the department for short Called " Amt Blank "). On June 7, 1955, Theodor Blank became the first defense minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the “Amt Blank” became the Federal Ministry of Defense . The Ermekeil barracks are thus considered the birthplace of the Bundeswehr . On November 12, 1955, the 200th birthday of the Prussian General Gerhard von Scharnhorst , Theodor Blank presented the first 101 soldiers of the Bundeswehr with their certificates of appointment . From 1960 to 1969, most of the ministry moved to the new building on Hardthöhe in Bonn . The move wasn't completed until 1974. The barracks buildings that had become vacant were used by various Bundeswehr authorities until 2013. In April 2012 the City Council of Bonn decided to draw up a development plan for the site.
Since 2013
The Federal Ministry of Defense handed over the barracks to the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks on June 17, 2013 . The Federal Office for Defense Administration based there has since switched to Hardthöhe and was dissolved in 2012.
An association (see web link) has been set up for the civil use of the barracks . Since November 2013 the area between the team house and the staff building has been used, among other things, as part of an urban gardening project. There has also been a Repair Café since the beginning of 2015 , which extends the association's temporary use of the site.
To relieve the overcrowded initial reception facilities, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia has set up emergency accommodation for refugees on the grounds of the Ermekeil barracks. Since August 2015, up to 300 refugees have been accommodated for a short time after their initial admission in order to then be distributed among the municipalities. For this temporary use, which is planned for at least three years, sanitary facilities in container construction were installed on the courtyard. At the end of September 2015, the city of Bonn set up a further 300 emergency places in response to an administrative assistance request from the state.
The city of Bonn has decided to acquire the Ermekeil barracks with an initial access option. The city of Bonn has had an external valuation report on this since May 2015.
Naming
The Ermekeil family of innkeepers from Bonn bought the then completely undeveloped area in 1870 in order to develop and sell it piece by piece as building land. The road was equipped with a sewer connection as well as gas and water pipes in-house. As a thank you for the infrastructure made available , the city fathers of Bonn agreed to give this street the name of the builder. The family later gave its name to the military accommodation, which was originally known as the "infantry barracks". In popular parlance, the Ermekeil barracks is also called "Ärme-Kääls-Kaserne" (in High German: "Armen-Kerle-Kaserne").
Web links
- Entry on the way of democracy
- "Ermekeilinitiative e. V. “| Association for the civil use of the Ermekeil barracks in Bonn's southern part
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 17, number A 988
- ^ A b The local history of Poppelsdorf , Förderverein Poppelsdorfer Geschichte eV
- ↑ a b The lights go out in the Ermekeil barracks , General-Anzeiger , December 22, 2012.
- ^ Future of the Ermekeil barracks in Bonn. Almost 200 visitors to the panel discussion on January 13, 2015 , promediare.de.
- ^ Resolution draft of the Council in the Bonn Council Information System , Bonn Council Information System (BORIS), February 16, 2012.
- ^ Federal Ministry of Defense: Report on the status of the realignment of the Bundeswehr. (PDF; 309 kB) May 8, 2013, p. 53 , accessed on May 18, 2013 .
- ↑ Bundeswehr clears the Ermekeil barracks. June 17, 2013, accessed June 17, 2013 .
- ↑ http://www.ermekeilkarree.de/garten
- ↑ Repair Café in the Ermekeil barracks. “Repairers” on the advance , General-Anzeiger , January 12, 2015.
- ^ Refugees in Bonn. Ermekeilkaserne becomes refugee accommodation , General-Anzeiger , March 10, 2015.
- ↑ Refugees move to the Ermekeil barracks , General-Anzeiger , July 28, 2015.
- ↑ Emergency places for 300 more refugees , General-Anzeiger , September 29, 2015.
- ↑ Urban development of the Ermekeil barracks site , City of Bonn (Bo-RIS) May 15, 2015.