Münz barracks (Koblenz)

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Aerial view of the Münz barracks, behind the dicastery building the Krummstall and to the right of it the Marstall

The Münz-Kaserne was a barracks in Koblenz . Because of its use by the 1st Rhenish Train Battalion No. 8 from 1859, it was also called the Train Barracks. The mint barracks included the royal stables and the crooked stables of the former electoral residence in Ehrenbreitstein .

history

After the territories on the left bank of the Rhine of the lost Electorate of Trier had now formally fallen to France with the Peace of Lunéville in 1801 , the Duchy of Nassau-Weilburg was awarded its properties on the right bank of the Rhine in 1803 . This took over the former Kurtrier administration and stable buildings at the foot of the destroyed Ehrenbreitstein Fortress and set up a mint in the Marstall built by Johannes Seiz in 1762 , which later gave the barracks its name. In 1815 Duke Friedrich August visited the mint together with Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. They also minted a visiting coin .

With the Prussian takeover of power in 1815, the buildings were used for military purposes. The Krummstall, originally a single-storey stable building and the actual stables of the residence, built at the same time as the dicastery building, was used as a train depot and to accommodate fortress artillery units and craftsmen. The Marstall to the south served the 2nd commandant of the fortress Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein and previously the engineer officer and temporary fortress commandant Ernst Ludwig von Aster as an official residence. Infantry units were also initially housed here.

From 1859, the 1st Rhenish Train Battalion No. 8 used the Münz barracks, which was expanded for this purpose in the following years. In 1881 the Krummstall was increased by two floors. With the expansion of the train battalion by a third company in 1887, further extensions were necessary. The harbor from the Electorate of Trier, south of the stables, was filled in, the space gained was initially used as a parade ground before a riding hall for the barracks was built here in 1899 (tennis hall from 1935, demolished in 1937). In the inner courtyard, the Münz-Kaserne also received a new building for the kitchen, canteen and NCO's casino in 1887 . In 1892/93 a forge (formerly Hofstrasse 278, demolished in 2000) and a hospital stables (formerly Hofstrasse 261a, destroyed in 1944, rebuilt in 1946/47, demolished in 2000) were built.

Since the train battalion had been expanded before the First World War , it left the Münz barracks in 1914 for reasons of space and moved into the newly built Train barracks in Koblenz-Lützel . From 1919 to 1922 the mint barracks was occupied by American and then French occupation troops, who gave the complex the name Caserne Argonne or Caserne Ecrite . After the Rhineland occupation in 1936 , the barracks were again used for housing and a. of the military registration office and the military district command rebuilt. Today, the property and construction management department is housed in the former Münz barracks (today Hofstraße 257b) .

Monument protection

Krummstall and Marstall are protected cultural monuments according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . They are located in Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein in the monument zone of the former electoral residence .

The Krummstall and the Marstall have been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley since 2002 . Furthermore, they are a protected cultural asset according to the Hague Convention and marked with the blue and white protection symbol.

literature

  • Koblenz city archive: (StAK) DB 8 military, 07 barracks: 3.22 Münz barracks (service building for the engineering staff, engineering building).
  • Manfred Böckling: The special picture: having fun with a train horse in the Prussian garrison Ehrenbreitstein. - In: Zeitschrift für Heereskunde, LXXXII Volume 2018, No. 470 (October / December 2018), pp. 18/212. ISSN 0044-2852
  • Ulrike Weber (edit.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3: City of Koblenz. Districts. Werner, Worms 2013, p. 80, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .
  • Rüdiger Wischemann: The Koblenz Fortress. From the Roman fort and Prussia's strongest fortress to the largest garrison of the Bundeswehr. Koblenz 1978, pp. 141ff. (Note: outdated in many respects, but still the best representation for an overview).
  • Karl Zimmermann: The Train barracks and the military buildings at the foot of the Ehrenbreitstein , in: Koblenzer Heimatblatt No. 20, 7th year, 1930.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wischemann states that the Grand Duchy of Berg had coins minted here from 1801 to 1813. See p. 141.
  2. ↑ Another source indicates that the building was raised by a lower storey in 1880 . Weber, Kulturdenkmäler, p. 80.
  3. ↑ Zimmermann, p. 1.
  4. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.5 MB), Koblenz 2013.

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 41 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 40 ″  E