Stone pit barracks
The stone pit barracks was one of the largest barracks in Hildesheim . It was located about one kilometer east of the city center in the Oststadt district of the Steingrube , a former and filled quarry that served as a parade ground.
history
On the orders of King Wilhelm of Prussia , Hildesheim became a garrison town in 1866 to accommodate the 1st and 3rd battalions of the newly founded III. Hanoverian Infantry Regiment No. 79 to be stationed in the city. While the 1st battalion was able to move into existing barracks in the area of Bahnhofsallee, the 3rd battalion initially had to be housed in private quarters.
The stone pit barracks were built in 1874–1876 for the 1st Battalion. It was a representative yellow brick building with a flat roof and a three-storey main wing in north-south direction with three four-story transverse wings in east-west direction. The construction was financed from reparations that France had to pay in 1871 after its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War . The street leading past the barracks to the west was named after Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke in 1876 , while a side street immediately north of the stone pit barracks was named Kasernenstrasse in 1879 .
In later years five more barracks were built in Hildesheim.
In order to better connect the stone pit barracks to the city and the main train station , the new line 4 of the Hildesheim tram was set up in 1929 . It ran from the train station via Ostertor and Einumer Strasse to Orleansstrasse. Their Moltkestrasse stop was just a few minutes' walk from the stone pit barracks.
The stone pit barracks were the only barracks in Hildesheim to be destroyed in the Second World War. During the air raids on March 22, 1945 , it was hit by explosive and incendiary bombs and burned out completely.
Reuse of the site
After the war, the ruins of the barracks were removed and the Scharnhorstgymnasium was built on the site . The parade ground was converted into today's Steingrube park. For a time, remembered even the street name Kasernenstraße to the quarry barracks until 1957 to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of the poet Eichendorff in Eichendorffstraße was changed.
literature
- Brinkmann, Jens-Uwe: Hildesheim - as it was , p. 80f., Düsseldorf 1976
- Bohn, Helmut: Corporal Neumann , in: Merian-Heft Vol. 8, p. 84ff, Hamburg 1952
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bölke, Stefan: Die Elektro in Hildesheim , Hildesheim 2008, p. 179
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 7.3 " N , 9 ° 57 ′ 49.5" E