Graf Radetzky barracks

Graf-Radetzky-Kaserne (command building)

Schmelz and Graf Radetzky barracks around 1900

The Graf-Radetzky-Kaserne is located in the 16th district of Vienna on the area Gablenzgasse 62, Panikengasse 2, Herbststraße 57 and Hyrtlgasse 1.

history

The infantry barracks were built as Radetzky barracks between 1894 and 1896 on the Schmelz north of the parade ground that had existed since around 1850 and replaced the Franz Joseph barracks together with the Archduke Albrecht barracks and the Archduke Wilhelm barracks .

During the First World War , the "Association Reserve Hospital No. 1 of the Patriotic Aid Society of the Red Cross for Lower Austria " was located in the barracks . The commanding officer was the General Staff Doctor , who had already retired in 1906 but was reactivated. Alois Cernowitzky, medical director of the regimental doctor (corresponds to the rank of captain) ao Prof. Dr. Artur Klein and Baroness Spiegelfeld the head of the nursing service. Wounded from the Imperial Russian Army were also cared for there, as can be seen from a labeled photo from this period.

After the First World War, the municipality of Vienna made the barracks available to homeless families. In 1930 the armed forces moved into the building. The German Wehrmacht followed in 1938, followed by the Red Army in 1945 and, from September 1, 1945, the French Army . In 1980 the Vienna Army Command was relocated to the Radetzky barracks, which also houses a memorial to Josef Wenzel Graf Radetzky von Radetz (1766–1858). In its capacity as the seat of the military command, the barracks is known as the command building of Field Marshal Radetzky .

In 2005 it was decided to close the FM Radetzky command building, but this was not carried out and is no longer planned.

literature

Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 1: A – Da. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 .
Nicole Pieper (Hrsg.), Peter Steiner (Hrsg.), Carl F. Pfaffinger (Hrsg.): Cleaning of the capital monument and documentation of the monuments. 115 years of the Radetzky barracks. On the occasion of the 115th anniversary of the Graf Radetzky barracks, today the FM Radetzky command building, the capital was cleaned by Pfaffinger GmbH. This was taken as an opportunity to document the history of the barracks, its monuments and the badges associated with it . Self-published by C (arl) F. Pfaffinger, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-9503229-0-3 .