Prince Leopold Barracks (Munich)
| Prince Leopold Barracks | |||
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Barracks building |
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| country | Germany | ||
| today | Freising State Building Authority | ||
| local community | Munich | ||
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 10 ' N , 11 ° 34' E | ||
| Opened | 1902 | ||
| owner | Free State of Bavaria | ||
| Formerly stationed units | |||
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1st Heavy Cavalry Regiment, Cavalry Regiment 21, Driving Section 7 Artillery Observation Replacement Section 7 |
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Location of the Prinz-Leopold-Kaserne in Bavaria |
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The Prinz-Leopold-Kaserne was a cavalry barracks of the Bavarian Army in Munich , named after the former commander of the 1st Heavy Rider Regiment , Prince Leopold of Bavaria .
history
The construction of a barracks for the 1st Heavy Rider Regiment was planned as early as 1887 as a replacement for the New Isar Barracks . A part of the military area on the Oberwiesenfeld , which was adjacent to today's Heßstrasse, was planned as the location . After the closure of the Hofgarten and Seidenhaus barracks due to a typhoid epidemic in 1893, the area was used to build a new infantry barracks for the 2nd infantry regiment . While most of the Munich garrison had already been moved to barracks outside the city center, the 1st Heavy Rider Regiment stayed in the Neue Isar barracks near the city center until 1902.
On June 21, 1902, the regiment finally moved into the newly built Prinz-Leopold-Kaserne. The new accommodations were located north of the barracks for the 2nd Infantry Regiment. Although the General Command of the 1st Army Corps initially resisted, about 90 hectares of the on-site training area for the Prince Leopold barracks had been given up.
In total, the barracks comprised two “double-squadron barracks” for 376 people each and one “single-squadron barracks” for 236 people. There was also a staff building, a farm building, a family residential building, three riding arenas, five stables, a hospital stable, a forge and a coach house . All buildings are built in the neo-baroque style , architects were the building councilors Georg Zeiser and Beetz. At the beginning of the 20th century, the so-called “Officer's canteen” ( officers' mess ) was already particularly representative. After being temporarily used as a chemical factory and vacant for several years, it was completely renovated from 1989 to 1990 and is located on the corner of Winzererstrasse and Schwere-Reiter-Strasse .
Most of the barracks have been preserved to this day. Along with the telegraph barracks, it was the last major military building project in Munich before 1914 and at the time of moving in in 1902 it was one of the most modern barracks in Bavaria. There were water, sewage, gas and telephone connections, only electricity was still missing at that time.
After the First World War , in 1919 the staff and the staff company of the 21st Rifle Brigade under Franz von Epp , staff and 2nd squadron of the 21st Cavalry Regiment and the 21st artillery command staff were housed, as well as a volunteer assembly point. The Reichswehr took over the barracks. In 1923 there was a mine thrower company and the hauled driving department 7 in the barracks. The Wehrmacht continued to use the barracks, at the end of the Second World War the Artillery Observation Substitute Department 7 was located there. Parts of the former Prince Leopold barracks are still used today by the Free State of Bavaria as the service building of the Freising State Building Authority - Munich service point - and for the Wood research Munich ( Technical University of Munich ) used.
The still preserved buildings in neo-baroque style are under monument protection .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Freising State Building Authority. History. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 25, 2011 ; Retrieved November 26, 2011 . 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.
