Starhemberg barracks

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Starhemberg barracks

The Starhemberg barracks is a barracks of the Austrian Armed Forces in Vienna's 10th district , Favoriten .

history

The barracks were built between 1910 and 1912 by the Austro-Hungarian Army in Gußriegelstraße for the Archduke Josef No. 37 infantry regiment as Franz Ferdinand barracks and expanded with another wing on Graffgasse in 1913.

After the First World War, the barracks was only the army and after the annexation of Austria to the German Reich of the German Wehrmacht adopted. As such, it became a site of Nazi military justice , as soldiers were interrogated in it and death row inmates were also incarcerated. During this time it was named Trostkaserne after one of the streets it is adjacent to.

On February 15, 1943, the war effort began here and in the Erzherzog-Carl-Kaserne for the first pupils of Vienna as air force helpers ( flak helpers ) . After the end of the war, the barracks were taken over by the Red Army . After the withdrawal of all Soviet troops from the restored Republic of Austria in 1955, the Austrian Armed Forces moved back into the building complex. On November 3, 1967 eventually was renamed the Franz-Ferdinand barracks in Starhemberg-Kaserne, after the defender of Vienna during the Second Siege of Vienna in 1683 , Count Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg .

The command support school and parts of the command support command and cyber defense are housed in the Starhemberg barracks.

Telecommunications collection

The “Telecommunications Collection” of the Army History Museum is also housed in the Starhemberg barracks and houses a considerable number of historical telecommunications devices (including extinguishing spark transmitters and receivers, telegraph and teleprinter , radio transmission and receiving systems, etc.). Starting with historically valuable exhibits from the 19th century, through communications and encryption techniques from the Cold War to the latest military communication technology, visitors are offered an overview of the means of communication used by the Austrian military throughout its history.

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literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Loidl: Unveiling of memorial stone for resistance fighters - soldiers and firefighters - at the Kagran shooting range on November 5, 1984. (= Miscellanea, 3, no. 38, Vienna Catholic Academy). Vienna, 1984. pp. 5-9.
  2. ↑ Open house at the Telecommunications Troop School. From: bmlv.gv.at, the website of the Federal Army, accessed on January 14, 2010.
  3. ^ Army History Museum / Military History Institute (ed.): The Army History Museum in the Vienna Arsenal. Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-902551-69-6 . P. 175

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 16 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 27 ″  E