Infantry barracks (Quedlinburg)
The infantry barracks is a listed former barracks complex in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt . Today the houses, as far as they are preserved, serve as apartment buildings or as a seat for authorities.
location
The barracks are located north of the historic Quedlinburg old town in the triangle of Halberstädter Straße, Gneisenaustraße and Schillerstraße. The listed area includes the addresses Gneisenaustraße 20–21b, 24, Halberstädter Straße 44c – a, 45, 46a – 47 and Schillerstraße 12b, 3. The complex is entered in the Quedlinburg monument register. A little to the east of the barracks is the also listed building at Gneisenaustraße 18–19a , which was built as a block of flats for families of NCOs.
Architecture and history
Construction of the barracks began in 1906 and was completed in 1909. The plans came from the architects Reinhard Knoch & Friedrich Kallmayer from Halle (Saale) . This resulted in plastered two to four-story buildings arranged in a large triangle. Some of the entrances to the houses are lavishly designed and are located on the courtyard side. The decorative architectural elements include volute gables , tail gables and half-timbered ornamental gables . Natural stones are also used for edging. Some houses are designed as three-wing buildings.
Some of the original staircases and some doors on the floors have been preserved in the houses. There are still a few small wash houses inside the courtyard.
The former casino of the barracks is located at the southern end of the complex . Noteworthy here are a representatively designed entrance and a magnificent gable. There is also an enclosure with a wrought iron fence. The area is surrounded by a partially preserved natural stone wall.
On October 1, 1909, the 1st Battalion and the regimental staff of the 5th Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 165 moved into the new infantry barracks. The III. The regiment's battalion was set up there in the following weeks and also moved into the infantry barracks. 1914 all Quedlinburger troops moved into the first World War . The Infantry Regiment No. 165 returned to its garrison on December 24, 1918 and was disbanded there in March 1919.
After the military use ended, some houses were converted into tenement houses. On the north side (Halberstädter Straße 45) the district court of Quedlinburg was housed for a long time until 2010 . Currently (as of 2013) the north-western part of the building is being converted into the Quedlinburg city archive.
literature
- Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 742.
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , page 117
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Wozniak: Quedlinburg: Small town history . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 9783791760353 , section "With the Kaiser into World War I"
Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 48.2 " N , 11 ° 8 ′ 17.6" E