Franz-Josephs-Kaserne Vienna

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The Franz-Josephs-Kaserne was a Viennese barracks building in today's Ringstrasse area . It was located in the 1st district of Vienna near the mouth of the Wien River in the Vienna Danube Canal .

history

The barracks was named after Emperor Franz Joseph I and built between 1854 and 1857 in the wake of the 1848 revolution . The keystone was laid on July 25, 1857. The barracks were part of an overall concept, together with the arsenal and the Kronprinz-Rudolph-Kaserne (today Rossauer Kaserne) built ten years later ; two other planned barracks around the old town were not implemented. The mighty barracks were built to protect the inner city of Vienna against further attempts at revolt by dissatisfied citizens and the proletariat .

The "defense barracks", which could be defended like a fortress in an emergency, was built according to the plans of the genius captain Baron Franz von Scholl. The barracks consisted of two building blocks, which were separated from each other by today's Georg-Coch-Platz and the area of ​​the post office savings bank building, which was built after the barracks were demolished . The historic Dominican bastion , part of the fortifications of Old Vienna, was demolished for construction and a traffic area of ​​the same name was named here in memory in 1863. The Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Tor, which was started in 1850 and completed in 1855, was part of the city fortifications and was generally accessible from the two blocks. On the ground floor there were load-bearing columns with a diameter of 47.5 cm made of hard imperial stone from imperial quarry . There were extensive parade grounds on both sides of the complex.

Shortly after its construction, the barracks stood in the way of the development of Vienna's Ringstrasse that began in 1857 , but it took four decades for the army to move away from here. Both wings of the building were demolished from March 5, 1900 to February 4, 1901 in the course of the barracks transaction and the property was sold. The demolition of the barracks began in the wing closer to the Wollzeile; the Franz-Josephs-Tor followed, and finally the wing on the Danube Canal side was demolished. The demolition company had undertaken to complete the entire demolition within a year.

The demolition enabled the completion of the Wiener Ringstrasse in the area of ​​the northern section of the Stubenring. The most distinctive building in the so-called “Stubenviertel” is today the Wiener Postsparkasse designed by Otto Wagner . The military was soon present in this district again after the demolition: in 1913 the new building of the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry was opened on the Stubenring opposite the Post Office Savings Bank , until 1918 the administrative center of the army of the dual monarchy.

On the former barracks area, next to Georg-Coch-Platz, Falkestrasse and, framing the Postsparkasse, Biberstrasse , Rosenbursenstrasse and Wiesingerstrasse were laid out, outside the Ringstrasse, the building site of the War Ministry, Reischachstrasse and Schallautzerstrasse. As a photo printed in 1908 shows, the new construction had progressed very far before construction work began on the new building of the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry in 1909.

Historical views of the Franz-Josephs-Kaserne

literature

  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 2: De-Gy. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , pp. 370-371 (barracks), p. 56 (Dominikanerbastei).

Web links

Commons : Franz Josef Kaserne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The demolition of the Franz-Josephs-Kaserne. In: Neue Freie Presse daily newspaper , Vienna, Morgenblatt, March 6, 1900, Communal-Zeitung, p. 6 top center

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 39 ″  N , 16 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  E