Municipal barracks (Eisenach)

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The municipal barracks - referred to as "Barracks A" in the building files, was the second military barracks in the Eisenach garrison . It was on Hospitalstrasse and stretched east of the former Eichelschen textile factories and north of the Fischerstadt settlement .

location

The former barracks area is now bordered by Hospitalstrasse in the east, Karl-Marx-Strasse in the north, August-Bebel-Strasse in the west and the Fischerstadt in the south.

history

Main building - barracks A
Staff building on Karl-Marx-Strasse before demolition (2009)
Jahnsporthalle (2008), in the background the now demolished building of barracks B

After the last units of the troops had withdrawn from the already dilapidated barracks in the former Klemme moated castle in August 1870 , this area was demolished and used to build the Eisenach theater . In the same year, the Eisenach manufacturer and manor Julius von Eichel-Streiber took over the construction of barracks A , a barracks building on the north-western outskirts of the city. This building complex, surrounded by a high wall, corresponded to the minimum standard of the Prussian military building administration and was initially only very sparsely furnished. In 1871 the 2nd Battalion of the 5th Thuringian Infantry Regiment No. 94 was able to move into the building complex. In 1882 an officers' dining establishment was set up. In 1895, the barracks B complex was added and the battalion headquarters were housed in it. The team building - barracks A was extended by a fourth floor. Most recently, from 1915 to 1917, a farm building and the staff building were built on the north side. For reasons of space, the garages for the transport vehicles had to be built outside.

Occupancy and current use

  • 1871–1914 2nd Battalion Infantry Regiment "Grand Duke of Saxony" (5th Thuringian) No. 94
  • 1916–1918 various replacement units and facilities
  • 1919–1919 IV. Division of the Voluntary Landjäger Corps - 16th Reichswehr Brigade
  • 1920–1920 2nd battalion Reichswehr Rifle Regiment 22
  • 1921–1934 2nd Battalion Infantry Regiment
  • 1934–1936 2nd motorcycle battalion 2nd
  • 1936–1938 (Corps) Intelligence Division 52
  • 1938–1939 Panzer Division 66
  • 1939–1945 various replacement units and facilities

After 1945, military use was given up and the barracks were converted into administrative offices and apartments under pressure from the Soviet military administration in Thuringia. Most of the building complex was later handed over to the police for use - until the 1990s. The Jahn sports hall in August-Bebel-Straße was also released for civil use as a school sports hall in the 1960s .

present

The property was acquired by the DRK-Eisenach, which had the northern building demolished in May / June 2009. The southern main building still exists and is currently rented to private companies. The Jahn sports hall was also retained, the adjoining outbuildings to the fishing town and the approximately 2 m high walls were demolished by August 2011 and the area was leveled. The "Haus Fischerstadt" nursing home for the elderly built on the eastern and northern premises with a focus on dementia patients was inaugurated on September 5, 2011.

Associated military installations

The barracks included other facilities located on the outskirts of Eisenach:

  • Parade ground and sports training area - An der Katzenaue - approx. 500 m north
  • Firing range - Am Siebenborn - approx. 1000 m west
  • Military swimming pool - at the Köppingbrücke - approx. 2700 m east-southeast
  • Officer's mess - on Hospitalstrasse - immediately north
  • Hospital / Lazarett - on Hospitalstrasse - immediately to the east
  • The garage complex was later created on the Katzenaue

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rita Specht: Eastward departure by demolition? DRK is considering razing clinker buildings to the ground / Förderkreis protests. In: Thuringian regional newspaper. Local edition Eisenach from June 27, 2009 p. ZA EI 1
  2. ↑ (eol / rbr): DRK-Heim "Haus Fischerstadt" inaugurated. WartburgkreisOnline, September 7, 2010, accessed on September 8, 2011 .

literature

  • Dieter Zeigert: Military buildings in Thuringia. A catalog of the barracks buildings with a detailed description of the military-historical circumstances in Thuringia since the German military constitution of 1821 . Ed .: Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology. Verlag Bildung + Wissen, Bad Homburg / Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-927879-94-0 , p. 116 ff .

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 41.1 ″  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 50.8 ″  E