Prince Karl barracks
 Prince Karl barracks
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The south wing of the Prinz-Karl-Kaserne |
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| country | Germany | ||
| today | Prince Karl Quarter | ||
| local community | augsburg | ||
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 21 ' N , 10 ° 54' E | ||
| Opened | 1882 | ||
| Old barracks names | |||
| 1935-1969 | Infantry barracks | ||
| Formerly stationed units | |||
| 3rd Infantry Regiment |
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Location of the Prinz-Karl-Kaserne in Bavaria |
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The Prinz-Karl-Kaserne is a former barracks in the Augsburg district of Hochfeld . Originally built for the Bavarian Army at the end of the 19th century , it was initially used by the US garrison in Augsburg after the end of World War II and by the German Armed Forces from the late 1960s . Today the Prince Karl Quarter, named after the barracks, is located on the site .
history
The barracks were built from 1882 for the 3rd Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment , which had been stationed in Augsburg since 1806. Initiated the construction was a typhoid fever - epidemic in the previous troop accommodations in the monastery buildings of Holy Cross and St. Salvator . Part of the area planned for the barracks - at that time still on the outskirts of the city - was actually intended as an extension area for the Protestant cemetery . The official entry of troops into the barracks took place on November 8, 1884. In 1898 a memorial was erected in the barracks courtyard on the occasion of the regiment's 200th anniversary.
In the following decades the barracks area was expanded with various additions, including the move of the III. Battalions of the 20th Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment from Lindau to Augsburg were required. In 1933 the anniversary monument from 1898 was redesigned and renewed. Two years after the National Socialist seizure of power on January 30, 1933, the name was changed to "Infantry Barracks" in 1935. Until an air raid on March 16, 1945 at the end of the Second World War, the area was used for military purposes throughout.
In the first years after the war, the United Nations Emergency Aid and Reconstruction Administration (UNRRA), an organization for the repatriation and care of refugees and displaced persons, was located in the buildings of the barracks. From 1950 the area was used by the US Army , which handed it over to the German Armed Forces in 1969 - in this context, it was renamed “Prinz-Karl-Kaserne”. Until the final withdrawal of the Bundeswehr in 1992, all of Augsburg's Bundeswehr services were housed in parts of the barracks building, the remaining buildings were left to decay. In 1994, the city of Augsburg acquired the land from the possession of the Federal Republic of Germany and in the following years converted it into the 10.5 hectare “Prinz-Karl-Viertel” of the same name.
Naming
On April 4, 1885, King Ludwig II of Bavaria gave the barracks the name “Prinz-Karl-Kaserne”, thereby complying with a request made by Colonel and regimental commander August von Parseval . The 3rd Infantry Regiment housed here had been named after Field Marshal General Karl Theodor Maximilian August Prince of Bavaria since 1866 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Augsburger Stadtlexikon : Prinz-Karl-Kaserne ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 7, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d e Prinz-Karl-Viertel Augsburg: The history of the Prinz-Karl-Viertel , accessed on February 7, 2016.
- ↑ Supreme building authority in the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior: Recognition - Augsburg ( Memento from June 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ a b c Augsburger Allgemeine : Hochfeld: Kaserne is transformed into a palace , accessed on February 7, 2016.
- ↑ Lecture at the 1st Regional Conversion Conference in Mannheim on June 1, 2011: Military conversion in Augsburg ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 9.2 MB), accessed on February 7, 2016.
