Mudra barracks (Mainz-Kastel)
.svg){kind=small} Mudra barracks
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Postcard, ca.1910 |
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| country | Germany | ||
| local community | Mainz-Kastel | ||
| Coordinates : | 50 ° 2 ' N , 8 ° 16' E | ||
| Opened | 1908 to 1909 | ||
| owner | Hessian Ministry of the Interior | ||
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| Hessian police |
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| Old barracks names | |||
| 1919-1930 | Marceau district |
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| Engineer Battalion No. 25 36th Infantry Division |
 
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Location of the mudra barracks in Hesse |
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The Mudra-Kaserne is a barracks in Mainz-Kastel . It is named after the former inspector of the 2nd Mainz fortress inspection, Bruno von Mudra , who decisively shaped the importance of the pioneer troops in the Prussian army . Today the property is from the I. riot police department of the Hessian police used for the state capital Wiesbaden.
history
After the conclusion of an incorporation contract , Kastel became a district of Mainz on April 1, 1908 . In the years 1908 to 1909, an additional barracks was built in the immediate vicinity of the Kaiserbrücke in order to improve the poor housing situation of the troops stationed in the Mainz fortress . The barracks were occupied by the 2nd Nassau Pioneer Battalion No. 25 ( XVIII Army Corps ) set up on October 1, 1909 . The battalion was mainly recruited in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau .
After the First World War , a ten kilometer wide neutral zone was set up to the right of the Rhine. Therefore, French occupation troops moved into the barracks, which at that time was called "Quartier Marceau" after the name of General François Séverin Marceau , who had besieged Mainz until October 1795 . The French did not leave Mainz until 1930. After that, the crew blocks stood empty for a while until they were converted into civilian apartments.
The barracks were re-occupied in the course of the occupation of the Rhineland (1936) in the demilitarized zone established for the security of France on the basis of the Versailles Peace Treaty . The 36th Pioneer Battalion of the 36th Motorized Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) used the area. During this time, the name was changed to the name Mudra-Kaserne, which is still used today.
In the course of the air raids on Mainz , the area was bombed during the war that soon followed (especially September 8, 1944) and partially destroyed. After the Second World War and the separation of the districts on the right bank of the Rhine from Mainz due to the demarcation between the American and French occupation zones , the barracks became emergency quarters for displaced persons, bombed out and companies. In 1951 the Hessian riot police took over the building.
Individual evidence
- ^ Pionierkasernen ( Memento from May 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Page of the Association of German Pioneers
- ↑ 50 years of the Hessian riot police
- ^ Barracks in Mainz-Kastel