Mars-la-Tour barracks
Mars-la-Tour barracks
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| Braunschweig 1899: The eastern ring area with the Mars-la-Tour barracks. |
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The Mars-la-Tour barracks in Braunschweig - also known as the hussar barracks after the Brunswick Hussar Regiment No. 17 stationed there (but not to be confused with the hussar barracks in the north of the city) - was built in 1892 on Giersberg and adjacent to the Husarenstraße and the Altewiekring built in the eastern ring area of the city. The extensive building complex received its official name in memory of the Battle of Mars-la-Tour , which took place on August 16, 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War and which saw the Hussar Regiment No. 17 under its commander, Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Wilhelm von Rauch , had attended.
Large parts of the barracks still exist today. The hussar barracks is the only barracks building from the 19th century that still exists in the region.
Usage history
The barracks were built from 1892 on the site next to the riding arena with stables for the horses of the Braunschweig Hussar Regiment No. 17, which had already been on the Giersberg since 1873. This was previously housed in the hussar barracks on the Löwenwall and moved into the new military complex on 15. March 1893, where it was stationed until it was demobilized after the First World War . This was followed by the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht , who occupied the barracks from around 1920 to 1945 with the mine throwing department 17. During the Second World War , the barracks were severely damaged several times, particularly by the bombing raid on April 23, 1944.
From 1945 to 1979 the main building housed the 4th police station and was last used by the Braunschweig rider and service dog leader squadron , which has had a new location in Querum since 2000 . The buildings were subsequently used as temporary dormitories until the Central Contact Point for Asylum Seekers (ZAST) was set up there on April 11, 1983 . From 2001 the main building and another three-story house, also built in 1892 for married soldiers of the Mars-la-Tour barracks, stood empty until it was bought by private investors in 2005 and converted into rental apartments and offices. A café and a shop have been located on the ground floor since 2012.
The entire ensemble of preserved barracks buildings is a listed building .
photos
Front view of the barracks from Altewiekring
Back of the barracks
Garages on the site of the barracks
literature
- Manfred Garzmann: Three centuries of the Braunschweig garrison. Chronicle of Panzergrenadierbrigade 2. Published on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Panzerbrigade 2 , Braunschweig 1979
- Jürgen Hodemacher : Braunschweig's streets - their names and their stories, Volume 2: Okergraben and Stadtring , Cremlingen 1996
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Gerhard Schildt (ed.): The Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. A region looking back over the millennia . 2nd Edition. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2001, ISBN 3-930292-28-9 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 51 ″ N , 10 ° 32 ′ 24.9 ″ E