Prince Georg barracks
The Prince George's Barracks was the second in Königsbrück , Saxony -scale barracks . The 13 hectare area was built between 1893 and 1895 as a garrison location for the riding department of the Royal Saxon 1st Field Artillery Regiment No. 12 , which made the small country town of Königsbrück a garrison town. The barracks were used for military purposes until 1992, since 1945 as the location of the 44th Soviet Armored Guard Regiment Search Bator . In 2005 the Prinz-Georg-Kaserne was demolished. In its place, the Helion Park "Prinz Georg" was built in 2009 . Some individual buildings on the edge of the area have been preserved, including the commandant's office and the water tower.
location
The barracks was located south of the Königsbrück train station in the square between the Dresden-Klotzsche-Straßgräbchen-Bernsdorf railway , Höckendorfer Straße and Auberg ( 203 m ). To the north-west is the Neuer Cultivation settlement, to the east the “Am Wasserturm” settlement.
Use by the Saxon Army
When the Saxon Army began to build an infantry firing range in the Laußnitzer Heide near Glauschnitz and a barrack camp on the pane near Stenz in 1892 , further plans were developed to relocate a mounted detachment in permanent garrison to Königsbrück. These were linked to the condition that the municipality should provide the Saxon tax authorities with a building site for a barracks with a parade ground free of charge. The thought that the country town would thus become a royal garrison town prompted the Königsbrücker Council to respond to this demand. As a construction site in agreement with the were nobleman Charles Robert Bruno Naumann Koenigsbrueck that belong to the Meissner Lehnsflur fields selected behind the Koenigsbruecker station on the northern slope of the Auberges, where to date only a windmill stood.
As early as September 1893, construction work on the new barracks began on Höckendorfer Strasse. The buildings of the area with a rectangular floor plan were laid out around a square parade ground as the center. In 1894 work was continued on the other side of Höckendorfer Strasse; A garrison hospital and a water tower were built on the Auberg southeast of the barracks, and a waterworks was built in the floodplain.
In October 1893 Königsbrück was elevated to a royal garrison town. Before moving into the Prinz-Georg-Kaserne, the manor district “Schießplatz bei Königsbrück”, which was spun off from the municipality of Stenz in 1893, was given the new name “Garnisionsverwaltung Königsbrück” on April 1, 1895. The next day, the Riding Department of the 1st Royal Saxon Field Artillery Regiment No. 12 moved to its new location. On May 1, 1906, the riding department celebrated its 100th anniversary.
Before the First World War , the area began to be expanded to the northeast, the garrison church was consecrated there in 1914 and the rectory was completed a year later . Between 1914 and 1916 the new command building was built on the railway line. On August 4, 1914, the third day of mobilization , the Riding Department was transported to the Western Front by rail . After the end of the war, the Riding Department moved into the New Camp , which was set up as a prisoner of war camp on December 8, 1919 , and was closed a day later. The Grenzjäger Artillery Regiment No. 12 was stationed in Königsbrück.
In 1933 the 2nd Squadron of Driving Department 4 was relocated to the Prinz-Georg-Kaserne to secretly test smoke throwers there. The squadron was converted to Nebelabteilung 1 in 1935 . The garrison church was elevated to the status of a Catholic parish in Königsbrück in 1934.
Use by the Soviet Army
In 1945 the Prince Georg barracks was seized by the Soviet Army . The 44th Armored Guard Regiment Search Bator belonging to the 11th Guard Panzer Division Dresden-Klotzsche was stationed in the barracks, parts of the regiment were housed in the old camp . The 1073th Battalion used the storage facility for material security.
After the reunification in the GDR , demonstrators on May 5, 1990 on the Königsbrücker Markt demanded the GSSD to clear the military training area and the other barracks . After the old camp was evacuated in December 1990, the Guard Armored Regiment "Search Bator" opened up to the interested public once on February 17, 1991 in an "Open House". In September 1992 the GSSD began clearing the barracks, and the tanks were transported away from the Königsbrück station by the Reichsbahn.
Demolition and re-use
After the real estate was taken over by the Free State of Saxony in 1992, the barracks on Höckendorfer Straße lay idle for a long time.
The city received the property at Höckendorfer Str. 11 with the Russian block of flats in 1994 as the previous owner and had the residential complex repaired and modernized in 1995. In 1998 the Oberfinanzdirektion Chemnitz had the large contaminated area behind the hospital building renovated for 300,000 DM. In 2001 the subsequent northern land with the water tower was sold to an investor from Königsbrück for the construction of a home.
The Prinz-Georg-Kaserne was auctioned for demolition by the Free State of Saxony in September 2003 and went to KIB GmbH in Dresden for € 51,000. The buyer shared the property and sold the northern part of the property with the three buildings at the train station, including the listed headquarters, to a Syrian architect. The remaining barracks buildings were superficially torn down by the KIB between April and August 2005 and a development plan for the construction of a photovoltaic system was developed for the fallow area. The KIB Group then sold the B-Plan area. In 2006, the Free State had the coal store torn down and the Wehrmacht bunker below it was filled. The “Prinz Georg” Helion Park with 27,000 Chinese modules was realized in the years 2008–2009 by Sonnenwerk GmbH for 15 million euros. In December 2009, the 120,000 m² solar park with a peak output of approx. 4.8 MWh went into operation, the electricity production is approx. 4.3 million kWh.
Remained u. a. the ailing commandant's office, the Exaltation of the Cross and the water tower, which are listed as cultural monuments.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Tüp until 1919 - Königsbrück. City administration Koenigsbrück, accessed on April 8, 2018 .
- ↑ U. Steckel: Catholic Church - Königsbrück. City administration Koenigsbrück, 2010, accessed on April 8, 2018 .
- ^ Jürgen Loeschke: Withdrawal of the "Red Army" - Königsbrück. City administration Koenigsbrück, accessed on April 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Timeline from 2000 - Königsbrück. City administration Koenigsbrück, accessed on April 8, 2018 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 29.5 ″ N , 13 ° 53 ′ 56 ″ E