Turba barracks
The Turbakaserne was a barracks of the Austrian Armed Forces in Pinkafeld .
history
Military use
The city of Pinkafeld decided on the barracks as early as 1926 after Burgenland fell to Austria after the referendum in 1921 . However, the foundation stone could only be laid on July 21, 1929. The then Defense Minister Carl Vaugoin also supported the project very much. For this reason he was later made an honorary citizen.
In 1932 the Military Police Battalion could. 2 of the Federal Army from Neusiedl am See to move into the barracks. It remained until the Anschluss in 1938. After that, the barracks served as accommodation for various units of the Wehrmacht . In 1939, among other things, troops of the Mountain Infantry Regiment 138, which belonged to the 3rd Mountain Division (Wehrmacht) , were stationed in Pinkafeld.
The barracks was believed to be the reason why two Yugoslav Bristol Blenheim bombers targeted Pinkafeld on April 7, 1941 . They wanted to carry out a counter-attack because of the Balkan campaign that the Wehrmacht had started the day before .
From 1941 the barracks served as a reserve hospital and from 1944 as a war hospital . On April 5, 1945, the barracks were occupied by the invading Russian troops. Cossacks were housed in the buildings until 1950 . A remainder of the command remained stationed until the State Treaty in 1955.
After obtaining the State Treaty and leaving the Russian troops in 1955, the barracks were renovated. As early as November 25, 1955, a company of B-Gendarmerie moved into Pinkafeld. A year later, the first military personnel of the newly founded armed forces were called up. Just ten days after they were called up, some of the cadre personnel had to move away due to the Hungarian uprising to secure the state border , while the rest had to continue training the young men. The 19 Jäger Battalion was set up in the Jäger barracks in 1957 and subsequently expanded. In 1967 the barracks was named after Colonel Josef Turba on the General Staff . The Kuk infantry regiment "Freiherr von Schikofsky" No. 83 , which he was able to lead back home from the First World War , became the traditional troop body of the Jäger Battalion 19 with the motto "Forward with fresh courage". In 1979 the 19 Jäger Battalion was renamed to the 13th Landwehr Trunk Regiment, but a few years ago it was renamed to the original name of the 19 Jäger Battalion.
Barracks sale
The Turba barracks was sold to a bidding consortium consisting of the municipality of Pinkafeld, the Oberwart settlement cooperative and the Pinkafeld company Pöll Immobilien as part of the austerity measures taken by the armed forces in 2014 . A second settlement cooperative left the bidding consortium shortly before the bid was submitted. The 19 Jäger Battalion stationed in the barracks had previously been transferred to the newly expanded Montecuccoli barracks in Güssing .
The area that has become free, with an area of around five hectares, was divided up between the members of the bidding consortium. The municipality took over a part in the northwest of the area and originally wanted to build a new fire station there. Due to the high costs, this plan was discarded and another piece of land was bought for the new fire station. The old houses of the armed forces in the eastern part were renovated by the Pinkafelder company and the Oberwart settlement cooperative built apartments and semi-detached houses on the remaining area.
The renovation of the former staff building by the Pinkafelder company to convert it into a health center began in 2016. In the course of this renovation work, construction workers found the certificate of the laying of the keystone from 1932 in a walled-in brass container. The Pöll Immobilien company handed this exhibit over to the city, drapery and fire brigade museum as a permanent loan during the opening of a special exhibition .
Monument to the kuk infantry regiments no. 83 "Freiherr von Schikofsky" and no. 106
There is still a memorial on the site that commemorates the fallen soldiers of the kuk infantry regiments No. 83 "Freiherr von Schikofsky" and No. 106. Its inauguration took place on July 1, 1934 with a large participation of the population. The original location of the memorial was the so-called "Deer Park" near the barracks. In 1997 it was moved to the grounds of the Turba barracks. In the course of the sale of the barracks, a political discussion broke out about the future location of the monument, but this remained without result. It is therefore still on the site within the former barracks and is now on private property.
See also
Web links
- Turbakaserne on Pinkafeld Online ( Memento from November 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Remembrance of the dead at the 83er monument in Pinkafeld , website mein district.at, accessed on May 27, 2019
- ^ Paul Klatt : The 3rd Mountain Division, 1939-1945 . Podzun, Bad Nauheim 1958, DNB 452432944 .
- ↑ Aleksandar M. Ognjević: BRISTOL BLENHEIM The Yugoslav Story 1937 - 1958 . Serbia.
- ↑ Jägerbataillon 19 , website Austrian Armed Forces, accessed on November 7, 2014
- ↑ Turba-Kaserne goes to bidding group , website mein district.at, accessed on November 7, 2014
- ↑ Living and working in the barracks , website burgenland.orf.at, accessed on May 13, 2017
- ↑ The opening of the special exhibition in the Pinkafeld City Museum met with great interest , website meinviertel.at, accessed on May 13, 2017
- ↑ Pinkafeld: Historic monument is to be moved to Güssing ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website www.fpoe-bgld.at, accessed on June 1, 2015
Coordinates: 47 ° 22 ′ 33 ″ N , 16 ° 7 ′ 22 ″ E