Gumpendorfer barracks

The Gumpendorfer barracks , also known as "Schmalzhof barracks ", was located from 1785 to 1902 in the 6th district of Mariahilf in Vienna at Gumpendorfer Strasse 68-76.

Before 1683 there was a convent of the Nicolai women on this site, which fell victim to the Turks. In 1754 Maria Theresia bought a palace built there around 1690 in order to set up an engineering school serving military training, which was converted into a military academy in 1760 . Parts of the existing structures were also used as a military hospital. The Gumpendorf military cemetery was specially created for the soldiers who died in this hospital . On December 13, 1785, Emperor Joseph II ordered the conversion to a barracks .

On October 6, 1848 the grenadier battalion of the Austro- Hungarian Army mutinied against the order of War Minister Count Baillet von Latour to support Bužim in Hungary against the insurgents there, thus triggering the Vienna October Uprising of 1848 .

In 1902, the Gumpendorfer barracks were demolished in the course of the barracks transaction .

literature

• Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 2, Kremayr and Scheriau, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , pp. 635–636 ( PDF on wienbibliothek.at).

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '44 "  N , 16 ° 21' 1.5"  E