Municipal barracks (Trier)

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The barracks in 1899
Former main building on Gneisenaustrasse
Renovated building, now the House of Youth Law
Former officers' mess

The Trier Municipal Barracks was built towards the end of the 19th century in the Trier-West / Pallien district . The citizens of Trier also referred to it as the "161" or " Gneisenaucasian ". It is located between Gneisenaustrasse and Trierweilerweg. The barracks were abandoned in the 1930s and the buildings continued to be used to alleviate the housing shortage.

history

The 10th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 161 was stationed from 1899-1914 in the barracks built by the city of Trier, hence the name "municipal barracks". In July 1914, the engineer battalion 27 was briefly housed there. In the western part, opposite the officers' casino , new buildings were erected, which the Trier people called "searchlight barracks". A few barracks were set up in this area and were auctioned off to the surrounding population in August 1930. Since Trier was a front-line town in the First World War, several hospitals were operated, in the "161er" there were two hospitals: the reserve hospital V and VI.

In 1919 the barracks was occupied by French troops and divided into two barracks. The "Quartier des Flandres" (Flanders barracks) was in the upper, western part of the officers' casino . The casino is now called " Don Bosco House ". The lower, eastern part began at the main guard and was named "Caserne de la ferme malmaison", based on a farm "Malmaison" on the Chemin des Dames battlefield , a ridge north of the Aisne valley . The battlefield was fought over in both world wars. The former main guard of the “municipal barracks” is now home to a police station, an association “mobile Spielaktion eV”, the Caritas Association Trier and the job center for the city of Trier of the employment agency. No external renovation work was carried out on the main buildings; they are in their original state.

Stationed units (French)

Quartier de la Malmaison

  • 52 ° Bataillon du Génie 52 ° BG from January 1, 1922 to October 25, 1927 (fortress / entrenchment pioneers)
  • 17 ° Bataillon de Chasseurs à Pied 17 ° BCP from August 12, 1919 to December 31, 1925 (hunters on foot)
  • 52 ° Bataillon de Sapeurs de Chemins de Fer 52 ° BSCF from August 12, 1919 to January 1, 1922 (Railway Pioneers)
  • 19 ° Bataillon de Chasseurs Alpins 19 ° BCA from October 1st, 1919 to December 1st, 1921 (Alps / Gebirgsjäger)
  • Compagnie de Sapeurs Mineurs 27/3 du 11 ° RG 11 ° RG from October 15, 1919 until unknown (mine pioneers)
  • Compagnie 29/1 du 29 ° Bataillon du Génie 29 ° BG from October 15, 1919 until unknown.

Quartier des Flandres

  • Annexes du 7 ° RG 7 ° RG from October 15, 1919 until unknown
  • Compagnie 15/5 du 7 ° RG 7 ° RG from October 15, 1919 until unknown

literature

  • Adolf Welter: Trier during the occupation 1918–1939. A contribution to the history of the Trier region. Petermännchen-Verlag der Trier Münzfreunde, Trier 1992, ISBN 3-923575-11-4 .
  • Elisabeth Dühr, Frank G. Hirschmann, Christl Lehnert-Leven: Trier Garrison Book . City Museum Simeonstift Trier, Trier 2007, ISBN 978-3-930866-22-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Welter: Trier during the occupation 1918-1939. A contribution to the history of the Trier region. Petermännchen-Verlag der Trier Münzfreunde, 1992, ISBN 3-923575-11-4 , pp. 10-11.
  2. ↑ Military hospitals in Trier on arge-deutsche-geschichte.de
  3. ^ Job center arrived in the west of Trier Trierischer Volksfreund, from December 17, 2012.
  4. ↑ Circle of veterans stationed in Germany ( Memento from May 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 157 kB, French)