Infantry barracks (Koblenz)

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The infantry barracks , also called infantry barracks in Neuendorfer Feld, was a barracks in Koblenz . It emerged in 1908 from the Peace Laboratory built between 1869 and 1870. There are no remains of the complex, which had to be dismantled after the French occupation left in 1929 due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty in the course of demilitarization . Today there are several apartment blocks and the Goethe secondary school on the premises on Memeler Straße.

history

Peace Laboratory

The peace laboratory was built from 1869 in the throats of the Neuendorfer Flesche and the Rheinschanze as a replacement for the abandoned facility in Teichert in Ehrenbreitstein . It was used for ammunition production until it was closed in 1889, before the institution was relocated from Neuendorf to Koblenz in the works yard of the Emperor Franz Fortress as part of the incorporation . Until 1906, the Prussian War Ministry tried unsuccessfully to sell the site.

barracks

With the evacuation of the Moselflesche in 1908, which had become necessary because of the construction of the Corps Clothing Office, parts of the first company of the 2nd Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 28 moved into the former ammunition plant. Since the building was supposed to accommodate the entire unit, which was partly still in the Franz Fortress, major renovations were probably made in the following period. The 2nd Grenadier Company of the Reserve Battalion of Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 25 was last housed here. After the end of the First World War , the infantry barracks were requisitioned at the end of 1918, initially by the American and from 1922 by the French, and renamed Parc Moronviller by the latter . After the French withdrawal in 1929, the building cooperative of the German Evangelical People's Association bought the site in 1930 and had six residential buildings built here by the architect Otto Schönhagen . Today there are no more buildings reminding of the former barracks.

literature

  • Matthias Kellermann: The Franz Feste in Koblenz-Lützel - a search for traces , in: Feste Kaiser Franz. On the history of the fortress and the Franz Feste system in Koblenz-Lützel. Festschrift for the 10th anniversary Feste Kaiser Franz eV, ed. from Feste Kaiser Franz eV, 2nd edition, Koblenz 2009, p. 31f. ISBN 978-3-934795-55-6 .
  • Peter Kleber / Matthias Kellermann: Military facilities in the area of ​​the Feste Kaiser Franz system , in: Feste Kaiser Franz. On the history of the fortress and the Feste Franz system in Koblenz-Lützel. Festschrift for the 10th anniversary Feste Kaiser Franz eV, ed. from Feste Kaiser Franz eV, 2nd edition, Koblenz 2009, p. 67ff. ISBN 978-3-934795-55-6 .
  • Matthias Kellermann: New research on the festivals Kaiser Franz and the system Franz , in: Feste Kaiser Franz ... a part of the fortress Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein, ed. von Feste Kaiser Franz eV, 2nd, revised and expanded edition, Koblenz 2010, p. 25f.
  • Rüdiger Wischemann: The Koblenz Fortress. From the Roman fort and Prussia's strongest fortress to the largest garrison of the Bundeswehr. Koblenz 1978, p. 152. (Note: Outdated in many ways, but still the best representation for an overview).

Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 18 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 1 ″  E