Hindenburg barracks (Augsburg)
 Hindenburg barracks
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View of the Hindenburg barracks on Gögginger Strasse |
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| country | Germany | ||
| today | used civilly since 1945 | ||
| local community | augsburg | ||
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 21 ' N , 10 ° 53' E | ||
| Opened | 1869 | ||
| Old barracks names | |||
| 1869-1935 | Artillery barracks | ||
| Formerly stationed units | |||
| 4th field artillery regiment "König" |
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Location of the Hindenburg barracks in Bavaria |
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The Hindenburg barracks (formerly artillery barracks) was a barracks in the Augsburg district of Antonsviertel . The remaining north wing is a listed building and now serves as a home for asylum seekers .
history
In 1869 the building on Gögginger Straße was built as a three-winged building with a brick facade. It was initially used to accommodate the 4th field artillery regiment "König" . The building was expanded in 1872 to meet the needs of the Bavarian Army . In the 1930s, the artillery barracks were renamed "Hindenburg barracks" after Paul von Hindenburg .
After the Second World War , the barracks were used as refugee and emergency accommodation due to the severe housing shortage. In addition, it housed various authorities and municipal offices and was sometimes called the “municipal administration building”.
The buildings have been used as a home for asylum seekers since the 1980s. In the course of the new construction of the Swabian police headquarters in 1992, large parts of the facility, with the exception of the north wing, were demolished. Since then, the entrance to the "community accommodation" has been at Calmbergstrasse 2a. Since 2010, parties and refugee organizations have been calling for the barracks to be closed because of what they believe to be catastrophic conditions. In 2014, the Vienna investigative and data journalism platform Dossier named the accommodation "the worst asylum seeker home in Bavaria". The closure was repeatedly postponed by the government in Swabia . The Swabian government finally closed the property in March 2017 .
literature
- Gertrud Seyboth: Augsburg - changes of a city . Presse-Druck- und Verlags-GmbH, Augsburg 1978, p. 120 and 121 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Calmbergstrasse: “ Turns the thing shut ” in: daz-augsburg.de of June 24, 2010
- ^ The unwanted: A visit to refugees in Augsburg in: cendt.de from March 13, 2013
- ↑ Asylheim Calmbergstraße closure requested in: augsburg.tv of January 17, 2014 ( Memento of February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Life in the Last Hole in: sueddeutsche.de from January 16, 2014
- ↑ Miserable prospects in: augsburger-allgemeine.de of August 27, 2015
- ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: Controversial asylum accommodation in Calmbergstrasse is closed . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . ( augsburger-allgemeine.de [accessed on March 14, 2017]).