Luitpold barracks (Lindau)
 Luitpold barracks
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Former Luitpold barracks with powder tower |
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| country | Germany | ||
| today | Civil institutions | ||
| local community | Lindau | ||
| Coordinates : | 47 ° 33 ' N , 9 ° 41' E | ||
| Opened | 1902/03 | ||
| owner | City of Lindau | ||
| Old barracks names | |||
| 1938-1945 | Péronne barracks |
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| Formerly stationed units | |||
| KB 20th Infantry Regiment Prinz Franz 19th Infantry Regiment Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 99 |
 
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Location of the Luitpold barracks in Bavaria |
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The Luitpold barracks is a former barracks and is located in Lindau-Insel in the city of Lindau (Lake Constance) , Bavaria.
Planning and construction history
In addition to the Max-Josef-Kaserne, which had been in the eastern part of the garrison town of Lindau since 1805 (still known as the New Barracks in 1823 ), the Bavarian Army , at the endeavors of the city of Lindau, left another military facility in the area in 1902/03 build the Luitpold barracks on the rear island . The spacious, picturesque group building followed the original course of the river bank and, with its historical shapes, took into account the reference to the former city fortifications in the immediate vicinity of the powder hill and powder tower.
The barracks complex was planned by the Augsburg building officer Ernst Feder with the participation of Friedrich von Thiersch and built by the Schellenberger company from Munich . The costs, not including the building site and internal equipment, were around 750,000 marks. The building site was made available free of charge by the city of Lindau and was 15,000 m², of which 4,100 m² were built over. Between March 1902 and September 1903 three parts of the building were erected: the team building, the staff building and the drill house attached to it.
The team building contained the team rooms, rooms for single residents, four lieutenants' accommodations and seven married apartments as well as a kitchen and dining room for teams and NCOs, toilet facilities, washrooms and kitchens and a shower room. The closet was set up on the first attic floor; Magazines were in the basement and other attics. Access was via six entrances. The staff building consisted of three parts, the front, intermediate and rear sections, each part had its own entrance. In the front building, i.e. facing the bank, there were 12 apartments for married couples. 14 holding cells with toilet facilities were set up in the intermediate building. Dismantling: four wagon sheds (equipment and wagon sheds) were on the ground floor, two large musicians' rooms for regimental music, a doctor's apartment, a craftsman's room with ironing room, washrooms and toilets on the two upper floors. In the converted attic there were two hospital rooms, an examination room, a guard's room, a toilet and three attic chambers.
The parade house had a monopitch roof and was 7.30 meters high on average. The large barracks yard of approx. 8,000 m² was bordered by a wooden picket fence facing the Pulverturmweg.
All rooms were heated by iron charcoal stoves and the lighting by kerosene lamps. The whole complex was connected to the high-pressure water pipe of the city of Lindau. All sewage from the roof, kitchen, toilet, washrooms and showers was channeled into a sewer network laid in the barracks yard; this emptied into a large collecting canal which, after passing through clarifiers on the southwest side, emptied into the lake. The sea canal, around 90 meters long, lay on the bottom of the lake and was secured against waves by iron posts. Also worth mentioning are the large barracks clock from the Ulm tower clock factory Philipp Hörz and the Bavarian coat of arms made of glass mosaic on the west gable, made by the Bavarian mosaic company Rauecker & Solerti from Munich.
The access to the barracks was via the newly built railway overpass (Thierschbrücke) and then via Thierschstrasse. The iron pedestrian walkway that was already in place earlier over the track structure of the station apron to Maximilianstrasse was retained.
Naming
Initially known as the "New Barracks", the military facility was named after the then monarch, Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria , soon after it was put into operation . When greeting the III. Battalion (KB 20th I.-R. Prince Franz) on October 1, 1903, the regimental commander Lieutenant Colonel Philipp Götz spoke of the "Castle by the Sea". In 1938 it was renamed “Péronne barracks”. Péronne is a town in the Somme department in France . The 20th Infantry Regiment took part in the fighting at Péronne in September 1914.
Other Bavarian barracks in Munich and Dillingen also bear the name "Luitpold barracks".
Military use
The 20th Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment Prinz Franz was founded on September 20, 1896. The regimental staff with the 1st battalion and the regimental music was moved to Lindau on April 1, 1897. The new troops moved into the Max-Josef-Kaserne on Ludwigstrasse and the Lindenschanz-Kaserne (Paradiesplatz 2, today a branch of the tax office). The location of the 2nd battalion was Kempten . The III. The battalion was in Landsberg and was moved to the newly built Luitpold barracks in Lindau in October 1903.
The expansion of the garrison meant that more business and casino rooms were required. The city of Lindau decided to put down the venerable "Binderzunft building", on the upper floor of which the business rooms and the officers' mess were previously , and to replace it with a stately new building built by the city master builder Egg. This building received because of the significant cash grant of 30,000 marks, which the major a. D. Maximilian Ritter von Abel, a campaign officer of the Royal Bavarian 3rd Infantry Regiment "Prince Karl von Bayern" from 1870/71 and an honorary citizen of the city of Lindau , had given the name "Abel-Bau" (Brettermarkt 8). During the construction of the Luitpold barracks, the regiment's offices were in the so-called “Pfisterhaus” or “Baumgarten”, the house on Marktplatz No. 4, for over a year, and the officers' mess was set up in the Hotel Reutemann at the harbor. On March 1, 1903, the new offices and the casino in the "Abel building" could be occupied. The grand opening ceremony took place on March 12, 1903, the birthday of Prince Regent Luitpold.
The III. Battalion was in the Luitpold barracks until the end of the First World War in 1918. This was followed by the Reichswehr , which until 1935 was the 9th and 11th company of III. Battalion of their 19th Infantry Regiment . With the establishment of the Wehrmacht , the III. Battalion of the 99 Mountain Infantry Regiment is based in the Luitpold barracks. During the Third Reich there were also pioneer units of the German Wehrmacht in Lindau , which were trained there as landing pioneers, as well as the infantry replacement battalion 488.
After the war ended in 1945, French occupation forces occupied the barracks, where they remained for ten years until they withdrew in 1955/56.
Two years after the rearmament of the Federal Republic, on May 8, 1957, a company from Telecommunications Department 121 of the Luftwaffe hoisted the federal service flag in the Luitpold barracks from Karlsruhe's Dragoons barracks, and on July 5, 1957, it moved into the newly established Luftwaffe anti-aircraft battalion 45th Lindau again become a garrison town. The troops consisted of 8 officers, 30 NCOs and 218 men and were pulled out of the trunk of the anti-tank artillery battalion 5 in Grafenwoehr . On August 10, 1957, the first gun (40 mm Bofors L 70) was delivered and pulled into the barracks by a tractor from a Lindau freight forwarding company. The first recruits arrived on October 1, 1957. A year later, the battalion had 26 guns. In October 1958 the first fire control device arrived in the battalion. The personnel list was not completed until the beginning of 1960. The Lindau unit was retrofitted on January 1, 1964 - from a 40 mm Bofors gun to the MIM-23 HAWK anti-aircraft weapon system - and on June 1, 1964, it was renamed "Anti-aircraft missile battalion 33". The rocket positions were at Wohmbrechts and Oberrengersweiler in 1965 (training positions 1966–1970), most recently at Friedrichshafen Airport (temporary positions 1966–1973). The training on the weapon system took place in Fort Bliss USA.
End of the garrison
When the Bundeswehr gave up its Lindau location in September 1973, the seventy years of military use of the Luitpold barracks, which had become increasingly obsolete over this long period, and the garrison status for the island town in Lake Constance finally came to an end. The battalion said goodbye to its garrison town with a solemn roll call on September 28, 1973, a march through the streets of Lindau and an evening together with the population. The Lindau “anti-aircraft missile battalion 33” was relocated to the Prinz Heinrich barracks in Lenggries on October 10, 1973 .
As part of the open redesign of the barracks area with living, clinic and training rooms and a lawn for sunbathing in the years 2000 to 2002, the parade house was demolished. A notice board on the former headquarters building as well as the "Zwanzigerstraße" still remind of the former 20th Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment .
Successor use
In 1975 the former barracks area became the property of the city of Lindau. During this time, parts of the property were given various temporary uses until the city council decided on a new use and design concept covering the entire rear island at the end of the 1990s, and thus also the renovation of the barracks. With the help of an investor , the entire old barracks building was completely renovated and rebuilt in the years 2000 to 2002, whereby the specifications of the State Office for Monument Preservation and the conceptual redesign of the interior areas had to be brought into line with future-oriented use. Since then, the buildings of the Luitpold barracks have housed, among other things, an all-day school , the adult education center and a vocational training center, the House of Business with the Chamber of Industry and Commerce and the Chamber of Crafts , the Lindau Naturopaths Academy, as well as medical practices and apartments. A clinic and two new residential buildings as well as an underground car park and an extensive park area have also been built on the site .
Web links
- Photos of the Luitpold barracks. Retrieved on September 21, 2017 (private website with historical images from the days of use by the Bundeswehr.).
literature
- Stadtarchiv Lindau: construction documentation by O. Meitinger, edited in 1988 by R. Scholz (Technical University of Munich)
- Wikipedia: Bavarian Army : Garrisons
- The KB20. Prince Franz Infantry Regiment, edited by Colonel Hugo Höfl, Verlag Max Schick, Munich 1929
- Bautechnische Zeitschrift, Illustrierte Wochenschrift about advances in the building industry, 18th year, No. 47, Weimar, 21 Nov. 1903
- Brief history of the garrison of Lindau (B) . Lindau 1967 ( digitized [accessed on September 21, 2017]).
- Blazing Skies: The history of the Air Force anti-aircraft missile troops, Wilhelm von Spreckelsen, Wolf-Jochen Vesper.
- Entry at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
Individual evidence
- ↑ A brief history of the garrison of Lindau (B) . Lindau 1967.
- ↑ Metzner, Oberleutnant and Weber, Leutnant: Ten years ago the anti-aircraft missile battalions 33 and 34 were set up.
- ↑ Lindau's city history ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Lindau - a city portrait. (No longer available online.) City of Lindau (Lake Constance), formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 24, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
