Peace barracks

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The eastern main wing, today's Ingolstadt tax office

The Friedenskaserne is a former barracks in Ingolstadt . Its two main buildings, erected between 1878 and 1880 for the Bavarian Army , were part of the Ingolstadt state fortress and are now used as a tax office and a police station.

Surname

The name "Friedenskaserne" stems from the fact that, unlike the war hospital built almost 20 years earlier, the building was not "bomb-proof" in the sense of being bombarded by artillery at the time. The name was also used for barracks at other locations such as Neu-Ulm for the same reason.

Building description

The two elongated main wings, each around 140 meters wide, with flat hipped roofs and identical facade structure in exposed brickwork, each consist of a four-story main building, four-story corner buildings and three-story connecting buildings. The associated two elongated powder magazines have gable roofs and a toothed corner cuboid .

History of construction and use

The two powder magazines were built in 1848 on the northern edge of the old town. The two main wings were built from 1878 to 1880 and housed two battalions of the 13th Infantry Regiment , after which the Dreizehnerstraße behind the barracks was later named. The Reichswehr garrisoned the 2nd Battalion of the 20th (Bavarian) Infantry Regiment here , and the Wehrmacht various troops. At the end of the Second World War , the area was initially used by the US armed forces as a camp for prisoners of war and imprisoned officials of the Nazi regime such as Mayor Josef Listl . After that, the property became a transit camp for refugees and displaced persons . In 1953, Auto Union leased the Friedenskaserne like numerous other former Ingolstadt military buildings and used it to rebuild the company, which was originally located in Central Germany, so that when it was rearmed, the Bundeswehr moved into the new pioneer barracks on the Schanz south of the Danube in 1957 . The vehicle manufacturer later gave up the scattered downtown properties and erected modern buildings on what was then the north-western outskirts of the city . The peace barracks then stood empty for some time and was completely gutted and restructured from 1980 to 1984. Since the restoration of the west wing as a police station (in addition to serving police station and the police headquarters in Ingolstadt, in 2008 by the police headquarters Upper Bavaria North was replaced) and the east wing as a tax office. Spacious garages for emergency vehicles were built behind the police building. The eastern powder magazine is now used as the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas. The historic buildings are under monument protection .

Web links

Commons : Friedenskaserne (Ingolstadt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • The peace barracks (no. D-1-61-000-109) in the list of monuments for Ingolstadt (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (entry on the peace barracks there on page 16 is also the main source)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Internet presence of the Förderverein Bayerische Landesfestung Ingolstadt eV
  2. ^ CVs from Franconia: Ed. On behalf of the Society for Franconian History, Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, 1960 p. 470
  3. ↑ Edmund Hausfelder: Local politics and administration in Ingolstadt during the Third Reich , in: Ingolstadt im Nationalozialismus , Stadtarchiv Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt 1995, p. 137
  4. ↑ Tobias Schönauer: Refugees and displaced persons in Ingolstadt after 1945 , Documentation on City History Volume 7, City Archives Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt 2008, page 72
  5. ^ History of the Ingolstadt site, Audi AG website

Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 8 ″  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 27 ″  E