Spitzberg barracks
| Spitzberg barracks | |||
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The downhill building of |
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| today | JVA and residential building | ||
| local community | Koblenz | ||
| Coordinates : | 50 ° 21 ' N , 7 ° 35' E | ||
| Opened | 1910-1911 / 1913-1914 | ||
| owner | Correctional Institution Koblenz | ||
| Old barracks names | |||
| 1911-1918 1923-1929 |
Spitzberg barracks Caserne Lafayette |
 
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Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 4 Infantry Regiment No. 68 Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 25 Reich Labor Service 151e regiment d'infanterie |
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Location of the Spitzberg barracks in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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The Spitzberg barracks was a three-part barracks ensemble of the Prussian army on the Spitzberg in the Koblenz district of Karthaus .
history
Barracks on Spitzberg
After the fortress of Koblenz was reinforced due to the Franco-German War and the troops stationed here marched out, a barrack camp was built in the lower part of today's Simmerner Strasse ( position ) for the guard and security units of the fortress of Emperor Alexander and the Fort Grand Duke Constantine and closed in 1871 a barrack barracks with seven crew barracks, an economic barracks and a kitchen barracks for the 2nd Battalion and the 12th Company of Queen Augusta Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 4 and an office barrack for the fortification administration. At the end of 1884 a company of the 2nd Battalion was relocated to the new half-timbered barracks. In 1893 two companies of the III. Battalion, Infantry Regiment No. 68 , from Fort Asterstein to here, which then completely moved into the newly built Hereditary Grand Duke Friedrich Barracks on October 1, 1902 .
Half-timbered barracks on Spitzberg
From 1883 to 1885, under the direction of the garrison construction inspector Julius Goldmann, a single multi-storey barracks building ( position ) with access building was built in the 1st rayon below the glacis of the Emperor Alexander Fortress and, according to the Rayon Law of 1871, which was still in force, could only be performed in half-timbered construction that had to be laid down quickly . A little later an additional farm building was built next to it. The crew house was already occupied on November 1, 1884 by a company of the 2nd Battalion, Queen Augusta Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 4. In September 1893 the entire regiment moved to Spandau and a company of III. Battalions, Infantry Regiment No. 68, were housed here until they moved to the Hereditary Grand Duke Friedrich Barracks. The half-timbered barracks had to be evacuated in 1910 because it was dilapidated, and when the war broke out in 1914 it was again occupied by a company from Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 25 and finally demolished in 1932.
Spitzberg barracks
After the abandonment of the fortifications on the left bank of the Rhine in Koblenz, it became possible to erect completely brick buildings in their vicinity. As a replacement for the dilapidated half-timbered barracks and the completely inadequate accommodations in the casemates of the fortress Kaiser Alexander, the Spitzberg barracks ( position ), consisting of two , was built for the 2nd Battalion, Infantry Regiment No. 68, between 1910 and 1914 at the location of the former barracks Team houses as well as a staff and a farm building. From 1923 to 1929 it was used as Caserne Lafayette by the French Infantry Regiment No. 151. In 1933 the lower crew building was converted into a residential building. The Reich Labor Service moved into the upper one and had been using it as an administrative building for Arbeitsgau XXIV, Middle Rhine, since 1939. Badly damaged in the Second World War, it was finally converted into a correctional facility under French administration at the end of the 1940s, leaving out the neo-baroque decorations on the roofs and facades.
Since then, a few more buildings have been built on the former barracks site, one of them on the site of the team house of the half-timbered barracks on Spitzberg .
Half-timbered barracks on Spitzberg (around 1896)
The building of the Spitzberg barracks located up the slope - now the JVA
literature
- Friedrich Betkau: History of the 6th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 68 . Koblenz 1908.
- Maximilian von Braumüller: History of the Queen Augusta Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 4 . 2nd Edition. Berlin 1907.
- Rüdiger Wischemann: The Koblenz Fortress. From the Roman fort and Prussia's strongest fortress to the largest garrison of the Bundeswehr . Koblenz 1978.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Braumüller, p. 262 and 286.
- ↑ Betkau, p. 149 and 177.
- ↑ Statistical evidence of remarkable buildings of the garrison building administration of the German Empire that were completed between 1884 and 1887 . Berlin 1889, p. 2 ( zlb.de ).
- ↑ Wischemann, S. 137th
- ↑ Wischemann, S. 139th
- ↑ Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz: Collection of images from the Koblenz correctional facility in the Karthaus district (inventory 710Ü, photo 380) . ( lha-rlp.de [accessed on August 1, 2019]). Hartwig Haubrich: Aerial photos of the greater Koblenz area . Koblenz 1972, p. 50 .
Web links
- Barracks on Spitzberg
- Rear view of the farm building of the half-timbered barracks (upper photo, from around 1900)
- General plan of the barracks on Spitzberg and Marsfeld (from around 1917)
- Spitzberg barracks in the First World War
- French guards in front of the headquarters building
- Lower team building at Caserne Lafayette
