Rennweg barracks
The Rennweg barracks in the 3rd district of Vienna Landstrasse at Rennweg 89-93 is often referred to as the Rennweger artillery barracks or orphanage barracks . She is one of the two namesake of the seven counting districts Rudolfspital-Rennwegkaserne counting district .
history
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In 1785 the orphanage on Rennweg was converted into an artillery barracks. From 1880 the infantry regiment Hoch- und Deutschmeister Nr. 4, one of the two Viennese house regiments, occupied the barracks. In the interwar period, which was the barracks from the army used during World War II from. Battalion of Rifle Regiment 2 of the Wehrmacht . After the end of the war, British occupation troops moved in here ( Kitchener Barracks ). The extensive complex was then used as a finance school, gendarmerie barracks , as a security department for Lower Austria and as a building yard for Federal Building Administration II. The barracks also became known after two serious criminals had recently managed to escape there during interrogations (1973: Ernst Dostal and 1988: Johann Kastenberger ). As early as 1813, the robber captain Grasel had escaped from captivity in this building.
Today the headquarters of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism (BVT) and other offices of the Ministry of the Interior are located in the building. The barracks tracts along Landstraßer Hauptstrasse were torn down and replaced by residential buildings. A technical college moved here from Argentinierstrasse . The orphanage church is part of the former Rennweger barracks .
Former riding arena
The barracks' former riding school is located between the residential buildings on Landstrasse Hauptstrasse and the school on Rennweg. It was built by Sicardsburg and van der Nüll around 1854 and is a basilically built brick building in Romanesque style, which features Tondi with horse representations, among other things .
The redesign to a gym took place in 1997 according to plans by Diether S. Hoppe , who was awarded the IOC / IAKS Gold Award for sports and leisure facilities in Cologne in 2003 .
It is used today by the HTL Wien 3 Rennweg as a gym.
overall view
View from the side
View from the side
Facade detail
literature
- Felix Czeike (ed.): Rennweger barracks. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 4, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 , p. 661 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Rennweger Kaserne in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
Footnotes
- ↑ DEHIO Vienna - II. To IX. and XX. District . Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0680-8 , p. 69ff
- ↑ https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/archiv/160644_Reithalle-Rennweg.html
- ↑ HTL Rennweg. (No longer available online.) September 2011, p. 22 , archived from the original on November 1, 2013 ; accessed on January 14, 2017 . 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.
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 23.2 " N , 16 ° 23 ′ 58.2" E