Army riding school

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Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '39.6 "  N , 13 ° 2' 50.3"  E

The Krampnitz Cavalry and Armored Troop School ( Army Riding School) was created through an OKH decision of 1935 in Krampnitz ( Osthavelland district ). The precursor facility was the Hanover Cavalry School . One of the reasons for this was the nearby Döberitz military training area .

history

In March 1937, the Berlin architect Robert Kisch presented the plans for the barracks in Krampnitz. The New Army Building Office began construction work in the spring of 1937. Completion probably around 1939. The relocation of the Army Riding and Driving School took place in stages and began with the teaching staff in 1937 and was completed in 1939/40.

From November 1938 the Army Riding School was under the command of the "Chief of the Rapid Troops", General Heinz Guderian . In June 1941 the name was changed to “School for Rapid Troops” and in 1943 to “Panzer Troop School II Krampnitz”. In the winter of 1944 the main parts of the armored forces school were moved to Bergen , only the mounted training units remained in their barracks .

The area of ​​the military installation is around 120 hectares . The defining buildings are the tower, visible from afar, directly at the entrance, the officers 'mess , the officers' dormitory and the ensign's dormitory. The buildings are listed and are typical of the military architecture of the 1930s .

From 1945 the Soviet Army was stationed here, after 1992 the area was no longer used for military purposes. In 2008 the state of Brandenburg sold the site to the TG Potsdam development company for around 4.1 million euros. In the summer of 2011, it presented a master plan that provides for the construction and renovation of almost 400 buildings with 1,651 apartments on 75 hectares.

The area is often used as a backdrop by the nearby Babelsberg film studio . a. Scenes for the movies Enemy at the Gates , Resident Evil , Mein Führer , Inglourious Basterds , Effi Briest and Monuments Men were shot.

precursor

The precursor to the Army Riding School was the Hanover Cavalry School , which was relocated from Hanover to Krampnitz in 1937. Among other things, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was trained in it until 1929 (von Stauffenberg was transferred there again as a rider officer on September 1, 1934).

The predecessor of the Hanover Cavalry School was the Royal Prussian Military Riding Institute in Hanover, which was subordinate to the cavalry inspection. In 1816 a teaching cadron was established in Berlin , which was replaced by a military riding school in Schwedt / Oder in 1849 , which was expanded as a military riding school in 1866 and moved to Hanover. It was an institute for theoretical and practical training. It was divided into an officer and non-commissioned riding school for the cavalry and artillery branches , who were trained as riding instructors for the troops.

  • Beer mug for the judging ceremony

  • Entrance to the officers' mess in Krampnitz

  • Guard building with tower at the entrance (east side) to the Army Riding and Driving School, 2007

  • Previous establishment of the Hanover Military Riding Institute , later the Hanover Cavalry School

literature

  • Carl Friedrich Mossdorf: The cavalry school Hanover. FN-Verlag, Warendorf 1986, ISBN 3-885-42168-2 .
  • Marie-Luise Buchinger: Krampnitz. The former cavalry school. In: Brandenburgische Denkmalpflege ( ISSN  0942-3397 ), 6th year 1997, issue 2, pp. 12-23.

Documentary film

  • The Hanover Cavalry School. Original material courtesy of Transit Film GmbH and the Federal Film Archive. Hildesheim 2001. (VHS / PAL, approx. 35 minutes)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rising from the Ruins: Master Plan for Scandal Barracks. In: Immobilien Zeitung , issue 22/2011 from June 1, 2011.
  2. ↑ Cf. Remer, Otto Ernst, Conspiracy and Verrat um Hitler - Judgment of the Front Soldier, 5th edition, Bad Kissingen: Remer-Heipke 1993, ISBN 3-87725-102-1 , p. 67.