Tank barracks (Flensburg)

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Tank barracks (Flensburg)
Armored barracks 2017

Armored barracks 2017
country Germany
today Conversion to residential buildings
local community Flensburg
Coordinates : 54 ° 48 '  N , 9 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 47 '53 "  N , 9 ° 25' 17"  E
Opened 1936
Tank barracks (Flensburg) (Schleswig-Holstein)
Tank barracks (Flensburg)

Location of the tank barracks (Flensburg) in Schleswig-Holstein

The tank barracks in Flensburg - Nordstadt was built in the 1930s and until recently served as a building for the German armed forces. It is one of the city's cultural monuments . It is no longer used militarily today.

Location and shape

The barracks are on the outskirts of the north of the city, to the west, right next to the Junkerhohlweg barracks from the 1890s, which, however, are already in the neighboring Neustadt district . The Duburg barracks had also been located near the two barracks since 1877 . The tank barracks has two street addresses. On the one hand, it bears the address Schwarzental No. 4. The street name Schwarzental refers to the Schwarzenbachtal , a notch valley with the barracks at the built-up end. The barracks also have the address Meiereistraße No. 4. The Flensburger Meierei eGmbH was located on Meiereistraße, which officially got its name in 1899 . The street name thus refers to this dairy, which existed until 1959 when it merged with the Adelbyer dairy.

The barracks complex consists of the L-shaped main building / team building, the guard pavilion on the access road to the barracks and the workshop building on the west side. The garages currently still in the south are to be demolished after 2016. Warehouses to the east of the main building have already been demolished. The main building of the tank barracks, the actual barracks, was realized as a multi-storey brick building. The east wing has two floors, the south wing three floors. A hipped roof rests on each wing . The inside of the building is accessed through continuous central corridors.

history

Establishment

The tank barracks were built in 1935/36. The Rendsburg Army Construction Office was responsible for the implementation . The tank barracks went into operation on May 19, 1936. The barracks were thus established shortly before the Second World War . It was not the only military building that was built in Flensburg during the Nazi era . The Flensburg-Mürwik base has been expanded since 1933. The Grenzland barracks in the north of the city was built in 1937. The Flensburg-Schäferhaus airfield was expanded in 1940. In addition, the Flensburg shipyard was converted to armaments and war production for the war .

Period of military use

It is not entirely clear which units were stationed in the tank barracks before and during the war. Probably in the barracks was only one anti-tank - unit stationed, so probably not a tank unit . Tanks were repaired at least later, during the Cold War , in the nearby Alte Werft (cf. Flensburger Fahrzeugbau ). At the same time, there were also tank units in the Grenzland barracks a little further north . After the Second World War, the neighboring border barracks were taken over by the British Army and, after their withdrawal in 1948, the Norwegians moved into it for the next five years . It is possible that the tank barracks were also used by the British and Norwegians during this period.

The Bundeswehr was founded in the mid-1950s . During this time the armored barracks was taken over by the military. The Bundeswehr set up a site administration (StOV) in the barracks , which was accordingly responsible for logistical tasks. The site administration was the first Bundeswehr facility that was set up in Flensburg. In the period that followed, other military facilities and barracks in Flensburg were reactivated, for example the Mürwik naval school . The site administration employed 1,700 workers and 400 civil servants in the 1960s and 1970s. At that time it was the largest employer in the region. In 2007, all site administrations across Germany were converted into Bundeswehr Service Centers (BwDLZ), including those in the Flensburg armored barracks.

In 2011 there were considerations to close the Bundeswehr service center in Husum or Flensburg. At the beginning of November 2011, the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn ordered the closure of the barracks in Meiereistraße. At the same time, it was decided to dissolve telecommunications area 91 in Mürwik . 350 service posts should be saved with both measures at the Bundeswehr location in Flensburg. The tank barracks should be closed by the first quarter of 2017 at the latest. On January 1, 2014, the Bundeswehr Service Center in Flensburg was decommissioned. In the following time the facility was called the Bundeswehr Service Center Husum, because the ongoing operations were controlled from there. Matthias Leckel, President of the Federal Office for Infrastructure, Environmental Protection and Services of the German Armed Forces, emphasized at the decommissioning ceremony that the federal administration would remain in Flensburg. Some employees of the Bundeswehr Service Center received reduced pay until the coming retirement age, with a dormant employment relationship. Ten employees were given a new job at the main customs office . The remaining employees no longer needed were also placed in public offices. Nevertheless, almost 300 employees and 58 civil servants remained in Flensburg, Glücksburg , Hürup , Jagel and Kropp , who were supposed to take care of the care and support of the 2900 soldiers and 1200 civilian employees at the twelve local Bundeswehr properties. The tank barracks were already empty in December 2015.

conversion

With the decision to end the Bundeswehr service center in Flensburg, the armored barracks were converted . At the end of 2015, in the course of the refugee crisis , the state government of Schleswig-Holstein examined the establishment of an initial reception facility for refugees in the armored barracks. The initial reception facility was not implemented. The city of Flensburg used its right of first refusal and acquired the barracks site from the Federal Agency for Real Estate at the end of 2015.

In 2015, the city of Flensburg began planning the "Schwarzenbachtal residential district". First, an architectural competition was held. The 6.8 hectare area of ​​the tank barracks as well as the adjacent commercial area, between the tank barracks and Junkerhohlweg barracks, also acquired by the city, had to be over-planned. In July 2016, the town hall decided on an architect's design. The investors in the project are Gewoba Nord eG from Schleswig , Bauplan Nord GmbH & Co. KG from Flensburg, Glockenweiß GmbH from Berlin and Hanseatische Real Estate Finanz Holding AG from Reinbek . The plans provide for the maintenance of the main building of the tank barracks. The residential area is to be built to the east of the main building and, once it has been completed, will consist of multi-storey, modern flat-roofed houses that will extend to the Junkerhohlweg barracks. This measure is intended to create over 400 apartments in the new urban quarter. A kindergarten is to be built to the west of the main building. The workshop building to the west would then be near the kindergarten and should be at least partially preserved. The part to be preserved is probably the oldest layer of the workshop building, which will serve as a " movement hall " in the future . The guard pavilion is also to be integrated, and a kiosk is being planned there. Residential gardens are being planned for the former roll call square on the east side of the main building. The project should be completed by 2019.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Seldom also written “Panzer-Kaserne”.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Lutz Wilde : Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 346 f.
  3. ^ City districts, published by the City of Flensburg ( Memento from February 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Current, official map with the districts and their streets , accessed on: February 1, 2017
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  6. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 444
  7. ↑ Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Meiereistraße
  8. ↑ In the dairy farm building Meiereistraße 7 was later Mosque Fatih Camii ( dt. Peculiar Mosque) furnished. See Flensburger Tageblatt : Harrislee - Flensburg: From the dairy industry to the mosque , from: September 20, 2011; Retrieved on: February 2, 2017
  9. ↑ See Flensburg-Neustadt. Framework plan update 2014. Explanatory report , page 16 as well as: Flensburger Tageblatt : Schwarzental in Flensburg: starting shot for a new quarter , dated: November 11, 2015; Accessed on: February 2, 2017
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  14. ↑ Flensburg. Hereford Barracks. Quantock Barracks , accessed: July 10, 2017
  15. ↑ See list of closed British military locations in Germany # Schleswig-Holstein
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  17. ↑ a b c d Flensburger Tageblatt : Silent farewell to the service providers , from: January 10, 2014; Retrieved on: February 1, 2017
  18. ^ Bundeswehr closings: When the camps are in mourning , from: November 5, 2011; Retrieved on: February 1, 2017
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  20. ↑ Bundeswehr. Closures in Schleswig-Holstein on: April 17, 2013; Retrieved on: February 1, 2017
  21. ↑ a b c Flensburger Tageblatt : Land examines refugee village in Sonwik , from: December 21, 2015; Retrieved on: February 2, 2017
  22. ↑ a b Flensburger Tageblatt : Negotiations with the Bundeswehr ?: Refugees in Flensburg: Riddle about the initial reception facility , from: November 13, 2015; Retrieved on: January 2, 2017
  23. ↑ Change to the “Schwarzental” zoning plan “Schwarzental” development plan (No. 289) , dated: November 19, 2015; Retrieved on: February 2, 2017
  24. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Schwarzental in Flensburg: Starting shot for a new quarter , from: November 11, 2015; accessed on: January 31, 2017
  25. ↑ a b IHR redevelopment agency, residential area Schwarzenbachtal , accessed on: January 31, 2017
  26. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Schwarzenbachtal in Flensburg: A new quarter for the Neustadt , dated: December 11, 2015; Retrieved on: February 2, 2017
  27. ↑ a b c d Flensburger Tageblatt : Urban planning in Flensburg: New residential area in the Neustadt , from: July 22, 2016; accessed on: January 31, 2017
  28. ↑ a b From plan to quarter in three years , from: August 10, 2016; Retrieved on: February 2, 2017
  29. ↑ a b c d design by Zastrow & Zastrow | kessler.krämer (PDF) , page 1, accessed on: February 2, 2017
  30. ↑ See the article in particular photos no. 1 and 2: Flensburger Tageblatt : Urban planning in Flensburg: New residential quarter in the Neustadt , from: July 22, 2016; accessed on: January 31, 2017