Maria Theresa Barracks

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Maria-Theresien-Kaserne of the Austrian Armed Forces

The Maria-Theresien-Kaserne is a barracks of the Austrian Armed Forces in the 13th district of Vienna , Hietzing . It is located in the Schönbrunn district on the south side of the Schönbrunn Palace Park in the so-called pheasant garden .

history

In 1937, according to plans by the architect Robert Kramreiter, the construction of a Dollfuss youth leader school of the corporate state dictatorship began , but this could not be completed until the "annexation" to the National Socialist German Reich in 1938. After the invasion of the Wehrmacht , the half-finished building was completed from 1938 to 1940 as barracks for the SS , later the Waffen-SS .

At the time of the Nazi regime it was officially called Kaserne Wien-Schönbrunn and was used by SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 4 “Der Führer” as quarters. After World War II it was called Fasangartenkaserne . From September 1944 to 10 April 1945, the barracks housed the concentration camp Vienna Schoenbrunn , a satellite camp of Mauthausen concentration camp , were used in the five interns to experiments on the development of alternative drive options.

During the occupation , the barracks located in the British sector of Vienna housed British troops and was taken over by the Austrian Armed Forces in 1955 after the conclusion of the State Treaty . The barracks continued to be called Fasangartenkaserne and was usually referred to as Faskas for short by insiders . On May 13, 1967, it was officially renamed Maria-Theresien-Kaserne (new nickname: Maresi ) after Empress Maria Theresia , the most prominent lady of the palace of Schönbrunn . In 2004, an Islamic prayer room was set up for the first time in an army barracks .

The Maria-Theresien-Kaserne (MTK) houses the Guard Battalion and Guard Music Vienna , the Army Intelligence Office and the Military Patrol & Police Command (Kdo MilStrf & MP). Until 2007, the now dissolved Vienna Jägerregiment ( high and German masters ) was also based here.

present

Main building Vienna's largest barracks with 282,900 m²

For a long time, Viennese urban planning has been considering how the area could be used if the military abandons the site. The Schönbrunn competition in 2001 treated the pheasant garden area as area A. In the event that the armed forces were relocated, a different use was targeted here; there were plans to expand the zoo to the south or to create a “new agora ” with trade, education and congress facilities in the pheasant garden . Another suggestion was for an Olympic Village with 16 high-rise towers on the site for any Olympic Games in Vienna.

One of the political plans for the surrounding area has long been the intention to build a new stop for the S-Bahn on the connecting line at the Stranzenberg Bridge, which was completed in 1971 .

Giraffes in the barracks

In autumn 2014 it was announced that due to renovations in the Schönbrunn zoo , a few giraffes could be temporarily housed in the zoo. In April 2017 it was announced that the three giraffes who moved to the barracks would not return to the new giraffe park, but would stay in Hietzing: “In his old age, we no longer want to expose [Bulle Kimbar] to transport and move. He feels very much at home and should be able to spend his old age here, ”says zoo director Dagmar Schratter. Instead, two young animals from the European Conservation Breeding Program would inhabit the new giraffe park.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Maria-Theresien-Kaserne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The front buildings of the Fatherland Front. In:  Mühlviertler Nachrichten with the richly illustrated supplement “Austrian Week” , November 12, 1937, p. 13 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / mvn.
  2. ^ Maria-Theresien-Kaserne in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna ; Retrieved April 23, 2017
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 18, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv.hietzing.gruene.at
  4. ↑ wien.at - Competition Schönbrunn: Maria-Theresien-Kaserne and Army Sports Facility ( Memento from June 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ wien.orf.at: Giraffes move to barracks
  6. ^ Oesterreich.orf.at: Where which barracks close
  7. ↑ wien.orf.at: New Giraffe Park: Animals don't come back

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 19 ″  N , 16 ° 18 ′ 13 ″  E