Jägerkaserne (Löbau)
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The Jägerkaserne was a barracks in Löbau , Saxony . It was built from 1912 and was named "Jägerkaserne" after the inauguration. The barracks are located at today's Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz.
history
After the announcement that in 1914 the 1st Kgl. Saxon. Jäger Battalion No. 12, which is to be relocated from Freiberg to Löbau, began building the Jäger barracks in 1912. Carl Hermann Uhlig from Oberschöna took over the construction management . However, the Jäger Battalion never moved into the new barracks due to its deployment in World War I. Until 1919, the barracks were used as a reserve hospital with 500 beds. After the hospital was closed , a border hunter battalion moved into the barracks until the training battalion of the 10th Infantry Regiment moved there.
After 1933 the barracks were rebuilt and expanded and from 1935 the Wehrmacht used the Jäger barracks to train recruits for a replacement army , and two replacement battalions were stationed in the barracks.
After 1945 the Jägerkaserne served as a reception and transit camp for expellees from Silesia until 1949 . After that, units of the barracked people's police moved into the barracks. From these units, the 16th Panzer Regiment of the 7th Panzer Division of the National People's Army was formed in 1956 . From 1962 the newly founded officers' college of the land forces "Ernst Thälmann" moved into the barracks, which began teaching at the end of 1963.
On July 31, 1991, on Order No. 3/91 of the Troop Command East, the university was dissolved, and from this point on, the barracks were no longer used for military purposes.
The listed Jägerkaserne is now used by the Federal Police and the Police of the Free State of Saxony , the Employment Agency as well as various businesses and cultural and leisure facilities.
The association "Garrison Löbau eV" regularly holds military vehicle meetings on the site of the former hunter barracks and runs the permanent exhibition "Garrison Löbau from 1821–1991".
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Coordinates: 51 ° 6 '23.6 " N , 14 ° 40' 58" E