Meidlinger barracks
The Meidlinger Kaserne in Vienna , formerly officially: Meidlinger Trainkaserne , in the meantime in parts Heckenast-Burian-Kaserne , today the command building Heckenast-Burian , was built between 1904 and 1906 at the address 12., Ruckergasse 62. It offered space for 600 soldiers and 400 horses as well as 1175 carts. There were also three riding schools (one covered and two open).
history
The construction was initiated as part of the so-called barracks transaction as a replacement for the wooden courtyard barracks and the cart barracks . The barracks, divided into two groups (staff building on Ruckergasse as well as team, stable and depot buildings) were built by Wenzel König as master builder. According to reports, the last vineyard in Wien- Meidling fell victim to this construction . The area is located a short distance from the Wien Meidling train station ( S-Bahn Vienna , Südbahn ).
In the interwar period, this was army quartered and during the Nazi period, the Wehrmacht . During the occupation (1945-55) the British Army used the area.
In 1955 the barracks were divided into two parts: the eastern part on Ruckergasse was given to the Lower Austria regional gendarmerie command , the western part was given to the armed forces . This renamed its part in 1966 in "Heckenast-Burian-Kaserne" after two officers of the Austrian armed forces and the German armed forces who had been active in the resistance and who had been murdered by the National Socialists. Since 1991 the Heckenast - Burian barracks has been run as the "Official Building Schwenkgasse". In 2010, the office building in Schwenkgasse was renamed "Heckenast-Burian command building" and a commemorative plaque was unveiled there. This part houses the operational support command and parts of the command and control support and cyber defense command .
In 1957, the interior ministry's flight operations center was set up and a helicopter was stationed in the part belonging to the gendarmerie . Between 1982 and 1987 the flight operations center was rebuilt together with a maintenance facility. On September 1, 2003, the regional gendarmerie command moved to the Lower Austrian state capital St. Pölten. In addition to the flight police , other departments of the Ministry of the Interior have been set up in the barracks, such as the Federal Office for the Fight against Corruption and Corruption Prevention (BAK). Also in the barracks building, with a separate entrance on Hohenbergstrasse, is the Meidling city police station and a police station .
The barracks are nowadays called Meidlinger barracks in common parlance and according to the name attached to the front , which makes them confused with another barracks that no longer exist in the south-western part of this municipality .
See also
literature
- Meidlinger Kaserne in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- Ludwig Varga: Military and medical facilities in Meidling - history of all barracks and hospitals in Vienna's 12th district , sheets of the Meidlinger Bezirksmuseum, Vienna 2016, issue 79.
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 24.9 ″ N , 16 ° 19 ′ 32 ″ E