Radio barracks
.svg){kind=small} Radio barracks
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Gate to the radio barracks |
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| country | Germany | ||
| local community | Munich | ||
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 11 ' N , 11 ° 36' E | ||
| Opened | 1936 | ||
| owner | City of Munich Bund |
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air force Air News Regiment 15 |
 
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Location of the radio barracks in Bavaria |
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The Funkkaserne is a 62.6 hectare former military property on Frankfurter Ring in Munich's Schwabing district (from 1808 to 1907 the area was part of the Freimann community ). It was used as a barracks by the Bundeswehr until 1993. After that, the buildings were mainly leased to artists, the area was then called Domagkareal and housed Europe's largest artists' colony. Construction work on the new Domagkpark district began in 2014, and the last building was completed in 2015. Only a few buildings remain of the former barracks, including the listed buildings around the Ehrenhain.
Luftwaffe air intelligence barracks
The radio barracks was built from 1936 to 1938 as an air message barracks as part of the armament of the Wehrmacht (hence the name radio ). The barracks were planned and built by the architects Albert Heichlinger , Lars Landschreiber and Max Dellefant based on drafts from the Air Force Administration . The buildings survived the Second World War largely without damage.
Resettlement Center
In the post-war years up to May 1955, the US Army and the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) operated the largest South German resettlement center for displaced persons in the radio barracks, i.e. transitional accommodation for predominantly Eastern European former forced laborers who moved to Germany during the Second World War had been abducted. At the end of 1946, Bruriah Szapira was the director of the transit and emigration camp. The actual camp capacity was 650 people, but the camp was completely overcrowded, so that the living conditions there were extremely poor. At the end of May 1946, 962 transit residents and 378 emigrant residents were housed. By moving the Jewish camp residents living in the transit area to the Traunstein war hospital, the transit camp was then closed at short notice. On October 3, 1947, 15 Jewish camp residents were housed in the transit camp and 547 in the emigration camp. The transit camp itself was finally closed in March 1948 after the residents destined for emigration were moved to the Munich-Freimann barracks (now Ernst-von-Bergmann barracks ). Ten people were housed in the emigration camp on October 18, 1948, and three on July 25, 1949. On April 22, 1950, the camp was completely closed.
Pioneer barracks of the Bundeswehr
From 1956 to 1992 the area was a barracks for the army of the Bundeswehr . Despite the sole use as a pioneer barracks , the name "Funkkaserne" was retained. Most recently, she was the site of the Engineer Battalion 210 Pioneer Training Battalion 220 - as a training unit of a few kilometers in the former Prinz-Eugen-Kaserne settled Pioneer School - and the Armored Engineer Demonstration Company 560. The engineer battalion 210 ( Heavy Engineer Battalion of the II. Corps ) was a special feature, a drill string incorporated, which was supposed to create blast shafts with his drilling vehicles in the event of war . According to rumors, he was planned for the use of nuclear mines allegedly stored in the US 10th Special Forces Group in the Flint barracks in Bad Tölz .
The military use of the radio barracks ended with a final appearance in March 1992 in the presence of the then State Secretary and later Bavarian Prime Minister Günther Beckstein . The radio barracks was the first larger Bundeswehr property in Munich that was given up as part of the troop reduction . From 1993 the area was subject to federal civil administration.
Intermediate use and artists' colony
As early as 1993, the buildings on the barracks site were released for various civil uses as temporary uses . These included apartments for students at the University of the Federal Armed Forces , the preparatory office for the Ecumenical Church Congress in Munich, rooms in the art academy , concert and event halls and - in increasing numbers - artist studios. Up to 300 artist studios were offered under the name Domagkateliers , from which the users derived the claim to represent the largest artist colony in Europe. Because a rapid development of the site with apartments and commercial units was planned, the studio use was initially limited to 2003, then to 2007 and in the last buildings lasted into 2011, when demolition work was already being carried out on a large part of the site. The users of the studios tried by public appeals to preserve a larger number of buildings and the artists' colony.
Urban conversion
On June 29, 2005, the city of Munich acquired a large part of the former barracks site from the federal government for the purpose of conversion . After the winning design of an architects' competition (Architects Ortner & Ortner for building planning, Topotek1 for green planning), the site was planned for 1,600 apartments, commercial units with around 1,000 workplaces, a central green area and an “artist's courtyard” with 6,000 square meters of studio space. Together with the adjoining areas of Telekom and Siemens that are also to be re-planned, the “Domagkstrasse urban development project” covered an area of 62.6 hectares . After the sewer and contaminated sites had been rehabilitated as well as the dismantling of the railway connection to the railway line from Freimann to Schwabing , which existed from military times, demolition work on the former barracks buildings began at the end of 2010, and the new building is scheduled to be completed in 2016.
Federal Police and listed buildings
An 8.72 hectare area in the northeast corner of the former barracks site was excluded from urban development and remained the property of the federal government. It will continue to be used by the Federal Police for accommodation and office buildings and is to be condensed in favor of additional residential buildings. In this part of the site are the former main entrance to the site as well as several buildings that were last used for military purposes by the Pioneer Battalion 210: the vehicle workshop (building 77) and vehicle storage halls (building 78), the accommodation buildings of the first and fifth companies and the "drill train “Of the first company (buildings 8, 7 and 6) also the listed buildings 1 (former staff building), 3 and 4 (both garage buildings) and 5 (old guard and detention building). In addition, the area of the Federal Police includes the former barracks sports field.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brigitte Fingerle-Trischler: Freimann in the north of Munich. Volk Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-86222-274-2 , pp. 30,71,72.
- ↑ Geoportal State Capital Munich - Development plan Former radio barracks with landmarks. In: geoportal.muenchen.de. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Alexander Markus Klotz (chairman of the Freimann regional committee) and Werner Lederer-Piloty (chairman of the district committee 12) to Elisabeth Merk (councilor for urban planning and building regulations): Urban development measure radio barracks - streets and place names. City of Munich - Directorate, Main Department II - Central BA office for District Committees 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 12, October 30, 2009.
- ↑ former air intelligence barracks. City portal Munich.
- ^ Munich Funkkaserne In: Angelika Königseder; Juliane Wetzel : Courage in life in the waiting room. The Jewish DPs (Displaced Persons) in post-war Germany. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994 [1. Ed.], 259.
- ^ Der SPIEGEL, January 14, 1985
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 21, 1992: "Taking the last roll call"
- ↑ http://muenchnr.de/11775/domagkstrasse-kuenstler-muenchen
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of November 12, 1999: "Goose Step and Techno-Trance"
- ↑ Website of the “Rettet Haus 49” initiative at www.rettet-haus-49.de
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 10, 2005: "Decision about the future of the radio barracks is imminent"
- ^ City of Munich: Resolution proposal for the meeting of the Committee for Urban Planning and Building Regulations on February 1, 2006