Leopoldstadt barracks
The Leopoldstadt barracks in Oberen Donaustraße in the 2nd district of Leopoldstadt in Vienna were occupied for the first time on August 1, 1723. Orders received the Fortifications - architect Donato Felice d'Allio , master mason Christian Alexander Oedtl , the master stonemason Simon Sass Laber from the imperial quarry with the hard Kaiserstein and Andreas Steinböck from Eggenburg with the Zogelsdorfer stone . The Schottenkloster supplied the Weinhauser stone. The barracks were financed by the Lower Austrian estates and made available to the state free of charge.
Companies of the Bayreuth Dragoon Regiment , the 5th Cuirassier Regiment , the 11th Uhlan Regiment (1821) and the 1st Uhlan Regiment (1817 and 1895–1899) were stationed in the barracks .
After a flood in February 1862, the city of Vienna feared an outbreak of epidemics. In view of the already overcrowded hospitals in the city, the government was asked for permission to build a branch hospital in the Leopoldstadt cavalry barracks. This was opened on March 10, 1862 with 150 beds (97 for men, 53 for women) in 26 rooms and, following a decision issued by the Lower Austrian Lieutenancy on July 13, vacated by the City of Vienna on July 30 of the same year.
Between 1863 and 1865 the barracks and the two riding schools were demolished due to their poor state of construction. The military catering establishment was built on the building site, which was reduced in size due to the widening of the Obere Augartenstrasse .
Footnotes
- ^ Hospital in the Leopoldstadt Cavalry Barracks ...
literature
- Rittmeister Johann Edler von Managetta-Lerchenau, The barracks in Leopoldstadt , in the monthly sheets of the Alterthumsverein No. 10, 1911.
- Doctor A. v. Göry: Hospital in the Leopoldstädter Cavallerie-Caserne in Vienna from March 10 to July 30, 1862 , Vienna, 1863
- Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 1: A – Da. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 10 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 17 ″ E