McGraw Barracks
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The McGraw barracks in the south of Munich is a property that was formerly used by the military. The main building (building 7) was one of the first buildings in Germany with a steel frame in 1935 . It measures 110 m × 85 m and is 18 m high.
Namesake
PFC Francis Xavier McGraw (born April 29, 1918 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † November 19, 1944 at Schevenhütte ) is named after PFC . McGraw was a member of the H Company of the 26th Regiment of the 1st US Infantry Division , who fell on November 19, 1944 near Schevenhütte in the Battle of the Huertgen Forest and posthumously with the Purple Heart , the bronze, for his achievements in this battle -Star and the Medal of Honor . A plaque outside the building 7 reminiscent of his actions, his body is in the military cemetery Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial in the Belgian Liege buried.
history
Until 1931 , the vehicle and machine factory Gebr. Beissbarth OHG produced on the site on which building 7, later the main building of the Reichszeugmeisterei , was built . In 1933 the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank acquired the site.
Elsewhere it is stated that the Maechlerhof originally stood on the site before it was acquired in 1910 by the Maurer Söhne company, which was founded in 1876 and began production at the exact point where building 7 was later built.
At that time, under pressure, this property had to be exchanged for a plot of almost 5,000 m² in Grünwald (Gabriel-von-Seidl-Strasse) and the Heinrich Maechler gravel works in Perlach , Putzbrunner Strasse 193. Both are still owned by the family today.
Use by the NSDAP
In 1934 the site was taken over by the NSDAP , which enlarged the property from 1935 onwards. The planned building 7 for the later Reichszeugmeisterei, the successor institution to the SA business office that has been based in the adjacent Tegernseer Landstrasse since 1928 , was built by Paul Hofer and Karl Johann Fischer in steel frame construction and was largely completed in 1937.
The barracks already served as the vehicle fleet for the "Reichsautozug Deutschland" and the "Hilfszug Bayern" for the NSDAP party headquarters in the Brown House , buildings 6, 8, 10, 11 and 12 as residential buildings for the staff and the Reichszeugmeisterei began as early as 1936 with the performance of their duties.
The "Reichsautozug Deutschland" technically supported major events with loudspeaker systems and had its own film screening train. The equipment was stored in Building 1 on Peter-Auzinger-Straße . The "Aid Train Bavaria" with its 160 vehicles was responsible for the physical well-being of the participants.
In the Reichszeugmeisterei, war veterans and disabled persons, and later also prisoners of war, tested uniforms and military equipment and repaired vehicles.
Some military units, such as an anti-aircraft battery and a small SS unit, were also housed in the barracks. The barracks were also considered strategically insignificant by the Allies , and only Building 19 was bombed during the entire war.
US usage
After the war ended, the property was occupied by the US Army on April 30, 1945 . The Americans gave the facility the current name "McGraw Barracks" and expanded it to include around 30 buildings. In addition to numerous military institutions, the barracks also housed a large number of everyday facilities ( AAFES ) for the families living in the housing estate on Perlacher Forst , including the University of Maryland , Munich Campus, which was housed in Building 2 in 1958, the "Munich Community Club", a commissary shopping center , a laundry, a gas station, bowling alleys , a dental clinic, etc. The US military government was in Building 7 from 1945 to 1949 , and from 1952 the Munich branch of the Southern Area Command (SACom), which was dissolved in 1964. In 1965, the US Army Area Command (AACom) was housed in Building 7, which was relocated to Worms in 1967 and restructured there to become the US Theater Army Area Support Command, Europe (USTASCOMEUR). From the end of 1968, building 7 was occupied by the two united Military Intelligence groups 66 from Stuttgart and 513 from Oberursel , which were moved to Munich, but were then housed in building 1, where the 508th Military Police Battalion was previously stationed. In 1969 the HQ EES moved out of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice in Building 7. In 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989 and 1992 the McGrawKaserne hosted the Bavarian Open Championships in racquetball .
German reuse
After the US armed forces withdrew from Munich, various departments of the Munich police moved into the former McGraw barracks in 1992. The main building of the former Reichszeugmeisterei now serves as a branch of the Munich police headquarters . The police station also uses the staff building as well as the car hall and large garage of the former “Reichsautozug Deutschland” and the large garage of the “Aid Train Bavaria”. The Munich Student Union has 50 places to live there. Part of the property will be built on with residential buildings. The former machine hall is to be converted into a multifunctional hall.
Currently, plans are being made to demolish the former US farm building and apartment building, the canvas laundry and probably also the large garage of the “Aid Train Bavaria” in order to build houses on the area that will become available. At the beginning of 2014 it became known that the use of the area as a police settlement was in the room.
Since 2015, an initial reception center for asylum seekers and refugees has been operated by the government of Upper Bavaria on part of the former site of the McGraw barracks.
location
The McGraw barracks is located near Mangfallplatz in a Spitz of the Obergiesing district bordering the Neu-Harlaching district , which is in the north by Chiemgaustraße , to the east by Warthofstraße , south by Peter-Auzinger-Straße and to the west by Soyerhofstrasse is bounded and cut through by the McGraw-Graben, half-open underground .
McGraw Trench
Since the Tegernseer Landstrasse running through the middle of the McGraw barracks was cordoned off by the US troops, construction of the McGraw trench began in 1970 , an underpass to connect the Middle Ring , which is adjacent to the property to the northwest, with the BAB starting in the southeast of the barracks 995 . The well-known Perlacher Mugl in the nearby Perlacher Forest was heaped up with the excavation . The effect of the adjacent building facades related to the framing of the street space was lost due to the construction of the street ditch.
literature
- Willi Hanseder: From the Reichszeugmeisterei to the McGraw barracks , in Giesing / by Hildegard Adam… , Ed .: Thomas Guttmann, 1990. ISBN 3-927984-04-3 , pp. 181–196
- Willibald Karl, Karin Pohl: Americans in Giesing. Munich 1945-1992 , Volk Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86222-099-1 .
See also
Web links
- Mike Montgomery; Walter Elkins (revision): General sketch of the McGraw barracks and Perlacher Forst Housing Area (1980s). www.usarmygermany.com
- History of the service building
- Entrance to former McGraw Kaserne, Munich (photo page)
- Re-use of the McGraw barracks: Hall becomes grove ( Memento from October 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- McGraw Barracks map
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- ↑ Historic Fairview Village: McGraw - Congressional Medal of Honor Citation (Engl.)
- ^ Francis X. McGraw in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved September 5, 2017.
- ^ Nicoline Bauers: The Reichszeugmeisterei in Munich (PDF; 670 kB) program of the 44th conference f. Excavation Science and Building Research on May 25, 2006, p. 19. ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Kenneth-VonSteuben: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: McGraw Kaserne - Munich, Germany )
- ^ Racquetball Landesverband Bayern eV: Bavarian Open Championships ( Memento from February 18, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ McGraw barracks in Munich: Minister of the Interior Herrmann plans police settlement , Bayerischer Rundfunk, January 17, 2014.
Coordinates: 48 ° 6 ′ 0.1 ″ N , 11 ° 34 ′ 59.6 ″ E