Pioneer barracks
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Aerial view of the Pioneer barracks around 1950 |
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| country |
 Germany
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| local community | Hanau | ||
| Coordinates : | 50 ° 8 ' N , 8 ° 57' E | ||
| Opened | 1938 | ||
| Formerly stationed units | |||
| III. 130th Engineer Brigade Railway Regiment |
 
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Location of the Pioneer barracks in Hesse |
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The Pioneer barracks is a former barracks in the Wolfgang district of the city of Hanau .
history
With the occupation of the Rhineland in 1936, it was again possible for the Wehrmacht to station troops in the garrison town of Hanau. The Hesse-Homburg barracks , which still in the First World War , the III. Railway regiment housed, but was now used by an infantry regiment . For the railway pioneers , the Wehrmacht therefore built the new pioneer barracks at Reichsstrasse 8 between Hanau and Wolfgang in the Bulau , a forest area, which was completed in 1938. The arrangement of the buildings in the barracks complex is striking: on the semicircular barracks area, five more buildings were built on either side of the main entrance and sixteen further buildings arranged in a fan shape around the center.
The pioneer barracks were used by the Wehrmacht until the end of World War II . Then the US Army occupied the area, changed the name slightly and stationed numerous troops there. To this end, the Pioneer Housing Area was built southeast of the barracks and the Sportsfield Housing on the other side of Bundesstraße 8 as residential complexes for soldiers and civilian employees. At the end of 2008, the US Army cleared the Pioneer barracks.
On November 22, 2018, a dud from an aerial bomb from the Second World War was found during construction work . On the following day at 7:00 a.m. all residents and schools within a 1 km radius of the barracks were evacuated and at 1:20 p.m. the dud was successfully defused.
conversion
There are still no concrete plans to reuse the Pioneer barracks. Planning is difficult due to the sheer area that the site takes up, which is even larger than the size of Hanauer Neustadt. The aim is a mixed use of residential and commercial space.
Sportsfield Housing, on the other hand, is to be demolished because it cannot be used any further due to the unfavorable location between the expressway, the Frankfurt – Fulda railway line and the industrial area under the approach path to Frankfurt Airport . In the meantime, however, Sportsfield served as an initial reception center due to the refugee crisis in Europe. Due to falling refugee numbers, the state of Hesse closed the initial reception center in Sportsfield in 2019, but the barracks continue to serve as urban refugee accommodation for up to 1500 refugees. In the long term, a complete demolition should continue.
Monument protection
The Pioneer barracks as a whole is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
literature
- Carolin Krumm: Cultural monuments in Hessen - City of Hanau. Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen , Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2054-9 , pp. 588f.
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Pioneer barracks In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
Individual evidence
- ↑ World war bomb found at the Pioneer barracks . In: https://www.op-online.de . November 22, 2018 ( op-online.de [accessed November 23, 2018]).
- ^ World war bomb successfully defused in Hanau . In: https://www.op-online.de . November 23, 2018 ( op-online.de [accessed November 23, 2018]).
- ↑ New life at the "Gateway to Europe" in FAZ from November 9, 2017, page 44
- ↑ Hanau wants to develop the next barracks. March 13, 2019, accessed May 2, 2019 .