Jägerkaserne (Görlitz)

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Jäger barracks
West view of the Jägerkaserne from Grünen Graben

West view of the Jägerkaserne from Grünen Graben

Data
place Goerlitz
Construction year 1854-1858
Coordinates 51 ° 9 '25.5 "  N , 14 ° 59' 9"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '25.5 "  N , 14 ° 59' 9"  E

The Jägerkaserne is a former barracks on the southern edge of the Görlitz Nikolaivorstadt , the premises of which are now used by the city authorities.

location

The former barracks complex is located on a hill above the roofs of the Nikolaivorstadt - the so-called Holderberg. Green Graben and Hugo-Keller-Strasse cross on the west flank of the building. The main entrance of the building is on the south side on Hugo-Keller-Straße. The address of the Jägerkaserne is Hugo-Keller-Straße 14.

history

Until the 1840s, parts of the Görlitz city fortifications were located at the current location of the Jägerkaserne - including the so-called construction kennel , the city ​​moat and the roundabout on the Hältersberg . After the city's fortifications were torn down in the 1840s so as not to suppress the city's growth through a medieval corset, the Prussian state demanded that the city compensate for the loss of fortifications by building a massive new barracks for a crew of 600. Between 1854 and 1858 the city finally built today's Jäger barracks for the 1st Silesian Jäger Battalion No. 5. This battalion captured the first French cannon in the Franco-Prussian War , which had stood between the theater and Kaisertrutz since 1874 . Until the end of the Second World War in May 1945, the building served as accommodation for various military units stationed in Görlitz.

After the war, the building initially served refugees from the areas east of the Lusatian Neisse as accommodation and was then used as a residential complex until the fall of the Wall .

In 1990, the city began the renovation and redesign of the building to a modern office complex, which is now the second city hall and houses the city's technical services.

When the Saxon district reform came into effect on August 1, 2008, the Jägerkaserne was also the seat of the Görlitz district until the new district office was completed (2013) in the southern city center at the train station .

Stationed units

The following table gives an overview of the units stationed in Görlitz between 1830 and 1945 .

Unit name Deployment period
1st Silesian Jäger Battalion No. 5 1830-1887
Infantry Regiment "King Ludwig III. von Bayern ”(2nd Lower Silesian) No. 47 , 1st Battalion 1860-1864
Fusilier regiment "General-Feldmarschall Graf Moltke" (Silesian) No. 38 1867
Infantry Regiment "von Courbière" (2nd Posensches) No. 19 1871-1919
1st Guard Grenadier Landwehr Regiment , 1st Battalion
Freikorps Faupel 1919-1920
8th (Prussian) Infantry Regiment , III. battalion 1921-1935
Görlitz Infantry Regiment 1934-1935
Infantry / Panzer Grenadier Regiment No. 30 , 1st and 2nd Battalion 1935-1945

Building

East view of the Jäger barracks

The massive three-wing barracks building resembles a Roman castrum in terms of its floor plan . A mighty corner tower is enthroned at each of the four corners. Also in the middle of the more than 100 m long front are two towers that flank the entrance. The facade is made of irregular quarry stone, with the window openings and cornices as well as the battlements of the towers are bricked. The once three-story building was extended by one floor in the roof area during the renovation work, which can be recognized by its striking, all-round ribbon of windows.

Web links

Commons : Jägerkaserne  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Kretzschmar: Görlitz as a Prussian garrison town . 1st edition. Stadtbild-Verlag, 2005, p. 8th f .
  2. ↑ Johann Gottlieb Mischke (ed.): The Markgrafthum Ober-Lausitz: royal Prussian share, in statistical and topographical terms . Lauban 1861, p. 95 .
  3. ^ A b preussenweb.de: Regiments of the Prussian Army . Retrieved March 30, 2012 .
  4. ^ Ernst Kretzschmar: Görlitz as a Prussian garrison town . 1st edition. Stadtbild-Verlag, 2005, p. 18, 60 .
  5. ^ Ernst Kretzschmar: Görlitz as a Prussian garrison town . 1st edition. Stadtbild-Verlag, 2005, p. 60 .
  6. ^ Ernst Kretzschmar: Görlitz as a Prussian garrison town . 1st edition. Stadtbild-Verlag, 2005, p. 60, 80 .
  7. ^ Ernst Kretzschmar: Görlitz as a Prussian garrison town . 1st edition. Stadtbild-Verlag, 2005, p. 80 .
  8. ^ Ernst Kretzschmar: Görlitz as a Prussian garrison town . 1st edition. Stadtbild-Verlag, 2005, p. 80 f .