Mudra barracks (Cologne)

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GermanyFlag of Germany (state) .svg Mudra barracks
Mudra barracks 1953

Mudra barracks 1953
country Germany
local community Cologne
Coordinates : 50 ° 54 '  N , 7 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '20 "  N , 7 ° 1' 10"  E
Opened 1937-1938
Stationed troops
Parts of the Federal Office for Personnel Management of the Bundeswehr GermanyGermany
Old barracks names
1938–1945
1951–1965
1974-present 		Mudra barracks
Nieuwpoort barracks
Mudra barracks 		German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era)
BelgiumBelgium
GermanyGermany
Formerly stationed units
Pioneer Battalion 26
5th Pioneer Battalion
Personnel Office of the Bundeswehr
Personnel Office of the Bundeswehr 		German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era)
BelgiumBelgiumGermanyGermany
GermanyGermany
Mudra barracks (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Mudra barracks

Location of the Mudra barracks in North Rhine-Westphalia

The Mudra-Kaserne is an army - barracks in Cologne Westhoven . It is named after the general of the infantry Bruno von Mudra , who led the 1st Westphalian Pioneer Battalion No. 7 in Cologne-Deutz from 1893 to 1898.

history

The barracks was designed for a partially motorized pioneer battalion of the Wehrmacht . It was built from 1937 to January 23, 1938. Fort IX (with riding arena and stables) and the staff building for the commander of the pioneers of VI were located within the site . Army Corps . The Pioneer Battalion 26, previously housed in the Unverzagt barracks (in the immediate vicinity), moved in after completion.

After the war ended, the barracks were completely looted by the population. Then displaced people from the east, bomb victims from the west and homeless people moved into the ruins. Conditions were inhumane until they were relocated to a residential area between Porz and Urbach . Women prostituted themselves in the blown up remains of the ammunition bunker. From 1951 to 1965 the Belgian 5th Engineer Battalion took over the barracks (renamed Nieuwpoort barracks). The facility was abandoned because the Bundeswehr needed the 719 Heavy Pioneer Battalion , which however moved to Cologne-Longerich .

A chapel for Belgian soldiers and families, Balts and Germans from the water tower settlement was built on the site in 1953. The chapel is no longer part of the barracks and houses a Russian Orthodox parish .

After nine years of vacancy, the partially neglected facility was renovated in 1974 for around 8 million marks and the Bundeswehr Personnel Office (PSABw) moved in. The 2300 employees of the office, founded in 1956, were spread over 10 rental properties in Cologne. Was succeeded by the Office of Personnel of the Bundeswehr from 1 July 1997 to 30 April 2013. As part of the reorientation of the Bundeswehr personnel office is in the May 1, 2013 Federal Office of Personnel Management of the Bundeswehr risen, which continues to use the Mudra-Kaserne.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b de Maizière opens Bundeswehr Federal Office. Radio Köln, 2012, accessed on March 15, 2014 (German).
  2. ^ Bundeswehr (Ed.): The Office - The Mudra Barracks . Armed Forces Base website, December 13, 2010 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Herbert Noske: The Porz Pioneer Location - The Pioneer Battalion 26 (1936 - 1945) . In: Heimatverein Porz in connection with the town archive Porz (ed.): Our Porz . tape 11 , 1969, ISSN  0566-2591 , pp. 116-117 .
  4. ↑ Alexander Wirtz: An attempt to jump into the big city, Porz and the Rhine since 1945 . In: Heimatverein Porz in connection with the town archive Porz (ed.): Our Porz . tape 14 , 1972, ISSN  0566-2591 , pp. 166-167 .
  5. ↑ Alexander Wirtz: Porz the gate . Peter Weiden Verlag, Porz am Rhein 1973, p. 87-88 .
  6. ↑ a b Joachim Schwochert, Ralf Dank: The Porz book . Schwochert & Dank, Cologne 1990, The largest employer - "camouflaged" economic factor: the military, p. 167 , col. 1 .
  7. ↑ Adhemar De Bruycker: The pioneer site Porz - Belgian garrison Porz-Westhoven (1951 ff.) . In: Heimatverein Porz in connection with the town archive Porz (ed.): Our Porz . tape 11 , 1969, ISSN  0566-2591 , pp. 166 .
  8. ↑ Adhemar De Bruycker: The pioneer site Porz - Belgian garrison Porz-Westhoven (1951 ff.) . In: Heimatverein Porz in connection with the town archive Porz (ed.): Our Porz . tape 11 , 1969, ISSN  0566-2591 , pp. 167 .
  9. ↑ Adhemar De Bruycker: The pioneer site Porz - Belgian garrison Porz-Westhoven (1951 ff.) . In: Heimatverein Porz in connection with the town archive Porz (ed.): Our Porz . tape 11 , 1969, ISSN  0566-2591 , pp. 168 .
  10. ↑ rocor-koeln.de , accessed on July 23, 2012
  11. ^ Armin Kalinowski: Personnel management in the medical service. Military medicine and military pharmacy, January 2007, accessed on March 15, 2014 .
  12. ↑ official appeal for decommissioning of the Personnel Office of the Bundeswehr and the Zurruhesetzung the agency head Major General Manfred Schlenker on 17 April 2013 of Mudra-Kaserne. Porzer Illustrierte, April 17, 2013, accessed March 15, 2014 .

literature

  • The pioneering location in Porz . In: Heimatverein Porz in connection with the town archive Porz (ed.): Our Porz . tape 11 , 1969, ISSN  0566-2591 , pp. 111-172 .