Lehel barracks
The Lehel barracks was a barracks of the Bavarian Army in Munich . The barracks, which was established in 1806, was located in the Lehel district - the former St-Anna-Vorstadt - in the rooms of a former monastery and was used until 1899.
history
Hieronymite monks lived in Lehel from 1725 . They had come to Munich from the area around Walchensee . At today's St-Anna-Platz they built a monastery, in addition to the first Rococo church in Old Bavaria ( St. Anna im Lehel monastery church ).
The Hieronymites Monastery was initially spared from the secularization that took place around the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. From 1805 the use of the convent for the Bavarian cadet corps was considered. These plans were abandoned in 1806 in favor of the construction of a barracks after the armory headquarters had claimed the monastery garden as an artillery depot.
In the second half of 1806 the first horse stables were built. The entry of the soldiers was delayed because monks still lived in the monastery. In December 1807 the Lehel barracks were occupied with 220 horses and 250 soldiers. It was the smallest of five barracks that existed in the Munich garrison at the time, but next to the old Isar barracks it was the only one with its own stables. With the electoral decree of May 19, 1808 (which also ordered the construction of the new Isar barracks), the artillery and army haulage battalion was quartered in the Lehel barracks. In addition, a division of the 1st Dragoons Regiment stayed in the barracks. Another shed was also built in 1808 to accommodate the carts and equipment.
On the north side of the church, a wing (later referred to as the "central building") was added in 1810 to increase the capacity of the Lehel barracks. After friction with citizens and church visitors, the church entrance had to be demarcated with a picket fence in 1811 . The soldiers of what was now the 1st Chevaulegers Regiment were withdrawn in 1812, so that - apart from supplies of artillery materials - the carts became the sole users of the barracks.
In the years 1813/14 the volunteer hussar corps was barracked temporarily in Lehel. Around 1817 the barracks was expanded again - with what was later called the "new building". The maximum possible occupancy at that time was 390 men and 352 horses. In addition to the soldiers, the Lehel barracks also housed an assembly magazine , a forge, a saddlery and a workshop.
In the summer of 1819 the barracks was expanded again. The central building was increased by one floor. In 1824 the Lehel barracks had a capacity of 388 men and 349 horses, 56 of which were used by the gendarmerie for teams and 28 for horses .
Due to a decree from King Ludwig I , who had little left for the military, the army had to cede the central structure to the Ministry of the Interior in 1827 , which was to set up a Franciscan monastery [?]. In order to be able to continue accommodating all soldiers, some workshops and apartments had to be relocated to the old Isar barracks. In the middle of 1865, two batteries of the 1st Artillery Regiment moved to the new Max II barracks , in Lehel only one carter squadron remained. From 1874 the training forge of the Bavarian army was located in the Lehel barracks, from 1878 units of the infantry body regiment were also located . In 1890 the barracks were occupied by 500 men who belonged to the infantry body regiment, the 1st heavy rider regiment and the training forge.
In 1880 the closure of the Lehel barracks was considered. In 1887 the war ministry planned the evacuation because the barracks were overcrowded and hygienically questionable. In 1890 the city of Munich explicitly asked for its dissolution. After the typhus epidemic in the infantry body regiment, which resulted in the closure of the Hofgarten and Seidenhaus barracks , Prince Regent Luitpold approved the closure of the Lehel barracks. Due to a lack of space, the soldiers were only able to move out in 1897, the training forge stayed in Lehel until 1898. Until 1899, the barracks were still used as alternative quarters and storage facilities; military use ended with the sale of the building in 1901.
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Remarks
- ↑ Source: Ch. Lankes (Ed.): Munich as Garrison in the 19th Century, Berlin; Bonn; Herford: Mittler, 1993
- ↑ next: Old Isar barracks , Kosttor Barracks , Cross barracks , Hofgartenkaserne
- ↑ The original convent building was called the "old building". For the "middle section" see a previous section
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 24 ″ N , 11 ° 35 ′ 8 ″ E