Castle Guard (Oldenburg)
The Oldenburger Schlosswache is located on Schlossplatz and thus in the immediate city center of Oldenburg . It was built in 1839 as a guard building for the Oldenburg military for the military guarding of the castle opposite . After various functions as a police station and service building for the Oldenburg city administration, the building has been used as a bank building by the Landessparkasse zu Oldenburg (LzO) since 1951 at the latest . The current address (2017) is Schlossplatz 7–8.
The building
description
According to the memorial index from 1977/78, it is a lightly plastered, two-storey solid building with a flat hipped roof , which is covered with so-called S-roof tiles. The portico is in front of the front, extends over both floors and consists of four Doric columns . Above it is a strongly profiled triangular gable with a block frieze . In the tympanum there are bas-relief representations in stucco . On the outside of the facade there are rectangular windows with multiple grooves. On the ground floor, these are additionally provided in a plaster frame imitating cuboid under a horizontal roof. In the portico area there are round-arched French windows, with rectangular windows above them in the same axis. (Quoted from Wachtendorf, p. 431).
history
The building was erected in 1839 by the architect Heinrich Strack (1801-1880) and replaced a guard building erected in 1829. The castle guard was also called the main guard, in contrast to the five city gate guards, which were also militarily manned until around 1840 (Dammtor in the south, Everstentor in the west, Haarentor in the west, Heiligengeisttor in the north, Stautor in the east). The officer of the main guard was also the superior of the gate guards, each of whom was commanded by a non-commissioned officer . After the city gates were lifted, only the castle guard remained, which was manned day and night as before.
In 1914, the palace guard was also the seat of the garrison commands , in addition of staff of the 37th Infantry - Brigade under Major General of Bauer and the staff of the 19th Field Artillery Brigade under Colonel Otto Heygster.
In 1919/20 there was a transfer from the military station to the police station. It was due to the establishment of the provisional Reichswehr in March 1919, whereby the last remnants of an Oldenburg military sovereignty, as laid down in the Oldenburg- Prussian military convention in 1867 , were eliminated. From 1920, a city police station was housed in the castle guard, but it was manned by the Oldenburg Order Police (Orpo) of the Free State of Oldenburg , which was founded in 1919 and took over guard and patrol duty in the city, while the municipal police limited themselves to administrative and criminal police activities. The police station seems to have been lifted by 1936 at the latest, as the building has now been rebuilt by the LzO. In 1940 the building was used by the city building department. Since 1951 at the latest, the castle guard has been used by the LzO as a bank building to the present (2017).
literature
- Günter Wachtendorf: Oldenburg house book. Buildings and residents in the inner area of the city of Oldenburg , Oldenburg (Bültmann & Gerriets, Publications of the Oldenburg City Archives Volume 3) 1996, p. 431. ISBN 3-928076-07-8 .
- Egbert Koolman / Harald Schieckel (eds.): Military and civil in old Oldenburg. The memories of Wilhelm and Christoph Meinardus , Oldenburg (Isensee) 1998. ISBN 3-89598-486-8 .
- Udo Elerd (Ed.): From the vigilante to the armed forces . On the history of the garrison and the military in the city of Oldenburg (Publications of the Stadtmuseum Oldenburg Volume 54), Oldenburg (Isensee) 2006. ISBN 3-89995-353-3 . ISBN 978-3-89995-353-4 .
- City of Oldenburg - City Archives Oldenburg (Hrsg.): Oldenburg 1914-1918. A source volume on the everyday, social, military and mental history of the city of Oldenburg in the First World War (publications of the Oldenburg City Archives Volume 7), Oldenburg (Isensee) 2014. ISBN 978-3-7308-1080-4 .
- Entry: Strack, Heinrich (the elder). In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 705f.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 18.4 ″ N , 8 ° 12 ′ 56.4 ″ E