Queen Olga Barracks

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Barracks in Kaiserstrasse

The Queen Olga Barracks was a barracks in Ludwigsburg .

history

One of the old team buildings on Kaiserstrasse east

The building of the barracks was the most extensive new building project of the royal military building administration in Württemberg before the First World War . At first it was only called Dragoon Barracks and then renamed Queen Olga Barracks after Queen Olga of Württemberg .

The Queen Olga Barracks was intended to replace the old cavalry barracks on Karlsplatz. It was built between 1904 and 1906 and expanded in 1913 and 1914. The barracks were used by the military until 1945.

In its time as barracks, the facility initially housed the staff as well as the 2nd, 3rd and 5th squadrons of the 1st Württemberg Dragoon Regiment Queen Olga No. 25 and, after the expansion, the entire Regiment 25. During the First World War, there were also there various replacement troop units housed. From 1920 the Queen Olga Barracks was occupied by the 1st, 3rd and 4th Squadrons of the 18th Cavalry Regiment . From 1936 the barracks was the location of the III. Department of Artillery Regiment 25.

After the end of the Second World War , the complex was temporarily occupied with refugees; Parts of the barracks were also used as a school building. Most of the buildings were demolished in 1968. The former team building III was renovated in 2009 and 2010 and has been used by the Otto Hahn Gymnasium ever since . The Ludwigsburg circular sports hall was built to the north-east of the former barracks site.

Preserved structures

Two crew buildings built as semi-detached houses have been preserved. They are located at Kaiserstrasse 6 and 8 and at Kaiserstrasse 30 and 32. The two former crew buildings on the south side of the former barracks are almost identical. The ground floor is clad with ashlar , above there are brick and plaster facades with echoes of historicism .

Remains of the old fencing can also be found on Weimar and Heinrich-Schweizer-Strasse (formerly Herzogstrasse), which give an idea of ​​the extent of the former barracks area. A few three-story military residential buildings have been preserved on Kurfürstenstrasse. They were built from sandstone and brick masonry in 1913/14 . These houses are numbered 13, 15, 17 and 19. In the same street, diagonally across from the old residential buildings, is the former officers' mess at number 22. This neo-baroque plastered building, the façades of which are structured with sandstone, has a dining room in its central part extends over two floors. The former officers' mess has a hipped mansard roof . Its front and main garden are enclosed with a uniform surrounding wall.

Web links

Commons : Königin-Olga-Kaserne  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Königin-Olga-Kaserne Ludwigsburg , on: www.kavallerie-regiment18.de
  2. ↑ a b Wolf Deisenroth et al., Monument Topography Baden-Württemberg. I.8.1. City of Ludwigsburg , Konrad Theiss Verlag Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1938-9 , p. 131 f.
  3. ↑ Conversion of Otto Hahn Gymnasium, school expansion , to: www.ludwigsburg.de

Coordinates: 48 ° 53 '56 "  N , 9 ° 10' 35"  E