Paulinerkaserne (Wiener Neustadt)
The Paulinerkaserne was built from 1480 as a monastery of the "Order of the Hermits of St. Paul" in Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria and later used as barracks .
history
monarchy
After the Jesuit order was abolished , the Paulines received the Jesuit College on February 10, 1776. The city of Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria received the evacuated Pauline monastery on July 6, 1779.
In 1780 the city decided to build another barracks in the former monastery after the armory barracks . After the renovation work was completed in 1782, the infantry regiment "Hoch- und Deutschmeister Number 4" was stationed here.
In 1807 the "Equitation Institute", a military riding school, was set up in the Pauliner barracks. The officers' house in the city also belonged to this institute . Senior and non-commissioned officers of cavalry regiments were trained here to become riding instructors in 18-month courses. In 1823 it was dissolved and partially relocated to Vienna and Salzburg .
On 2 December 1852, the Paulinerkaserne was from Aerar bought the town of Wiener Neustadt. Also in 1852 the Military Teachers Institute of the Austro-Hungarian Army was founded here. This consisted of two departments:
- Fencing Department:
- In the fencing department, non-commissioned officers were trained as fencing instructors, who were then assigned to the various regiments.
- In 1880 the fencing department became the "fencing and gymnastics instructor course" for officers and NCOs.
- Pedagogical Department:
- In the pedagogical department, NCOs were trained to be used as teachers in the military schools .
The replacement cadre of a cavalry regiment was moved from Wels to Wiener Neustadt in 1892 . He was quartered in the Bürgerspital until 1900, then in the Paulinerkaserne until the end of the First World War . Some of the teams were also housed in the new monastery and the Bastei mill.
Parts of the Dragoon Regiment number 4, which had been supplemented from Upper Austria and Salzburg, were stationed in Wiener Neustadt between June 1892 and March 1902, some of them also here in the Pauliner barracks.
1st republic
The end of the First World War also brought the Pauliner barracks closed. The Peace Treaty of Saint-Germain granted the republic the right to own the area of the former barracks.
2nd republic
After the Second World War , the western part of the former barracks was provided with arcades , and offices and workshops of the federal building administration were housed in the building .
literature
- Rudolf Marwan-Schlosser : barracks, soldiers, events. Barracks and military facilities in Wiener Neustadt, Bad Fischau, Wöllersdorf, Katzelsdorf, Felixdorf-Grossmittel-Blumau.
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 40.4 " N , 16 ° 14 ′ 43.8" E