Lützendorf barracks

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Lützendorf barracks in Weimar-Nord

The former Lützendorf barracks are an architecturally defining component of the development on the southern slope of the Ettersberg and belong to the Weimar -Nord district.

Origin and use

During the armament of the Wehrmacht in the 1930s, Weimar received several new Wehrmacht barracks on the Lützendorfer Flur , the area around the former Lützendorf desert , which was first mentioned in 1295. In the so-called fratricidal war between 1448 and 1451 it was completely destroyed, with the exception of a chapel , which was only demolished in 1530.

Since 1935, a series of barracks buildings have been erected to the east and west of Ettersburger Strasse, parallel to the slope of the Ettersberg slope . In these barracks u. a. In 1939 the rifle regiment moved from Gera . The barracks on the western side had been assigned to the army . The buildings east of Ettersburger Strasse had already been occupied by an air force unit from 1936 .

The poet Wolfgang Borchert was also in one of the Lützendorf barracks . He served with the 3rd / Panzer-Nachrichten-Ersatz -teilung 81 in the "Tannenberg barracks" . From July to September 1941 he was part of this unit for basic training . Borchert suffered from the military drill which he ventured in letters and postcards to his friends. On one of these cards with the photo of his barracks he noted: “ [a] from one of the most beautiful penitentiaries of the Third Reich ”.

After the end of the Second World War in 1945, the barracks were occupied by the US Army for a few weeks and then by Soviet troops of the 8th Guard Army until the early 1990s .

Since 1990 some of the barracks buildings have been renovated and put to civil use.

literature

  • State manual for the Grand Duchy of Saxony of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach
  • Hans-Joachim Eilhardt: Spring 1945: The fight for Berlin and flight to the West , Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-933608-76-7
  • Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke, Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history. Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-7400-0807-5 .

Web links

Commons : Lützendorf-Kaserne (Weimar)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gitta Günther, Wolfram Huschke, Walter Steiner (eds.): Weimar. Lexicon on city history . Weimar 1998. ISBN 3-7400-0807-5 , p. 243.
  2. ↑ Gera Chronik - Chronicle. In: gera-chronik.de. October 3, 1935, accessed January 12, 2015 .
  3. ^ Willy Schilling: Thuringia 1933–1945. The historical travel guide , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-576-8 , p. 31.
  4. ↑ Carsten Schlueter. (No longer available online.) In: kkgwhv-schule.kwe.de. Archived from the original on May 24, 2015 ; accessed on January 12, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kkgwhv-schule.kwe.de
  5. ^ Rühmkorf: Wolfgang Borchert , pp. 51–52.
  6. ^ Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach: State manual for the Grand Duchy of Saxony. Böhlau, 1823, p. 219 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 29 "  N , 11 ° 18 ′ 39.3"  E