Werder barracks
The Werder barracks in Schwerin , Werdervorstadt , Walter-Rathenow-Straße 2a, was built until 1904 for the military of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin .
history
The Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Grenadier Regiment No. 89 , founded in 1782, had been stationed in Schwerin since 1871 in quarters I to III (later also IV). From 1872 the Jäger Battalion No. 14 with four companies with a strength of 125 men each was housed in Quartiershaus III on Werderstrasse . The three-storey clinker brick building of the Werder barracks in the Wilhelminian style was carried out from 1901 to 1904, including the old quarter house III. The Werder barracks, inaugurated on March 29, 1904, were to house the entire Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Grenadier Regiment No. 89 in the future. The old quarter houses in the city were given up.
The infantry barracks Werderstraße later on instructions from the Reichswehr Ministry in 1925 Grenadier barracks renamed. The barracks complex with the crew houses was considerably expanded and rebuilt after 1933 with the armament of the Wehrmacht . The officers' mess was not on the barracks site, but on the nearby Großer Moor street .
The Werder barracks were used by the armed forces of the GDR (NVA) as Kurt Bürger barracks by the command of the 8th Motorized Rifle Division ( 8th MSD ) established in 1956 (staff, intelligence battalion , military district command, military court).
The state command of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , which has been the highest territorial command authority of the Bundeswehr in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania since 2007 , is located in the Werder barracks. The Blücherzimmer of the Werder barracks also serves as a lecture hall for civil events.
The building with clinker brick in the basement with the two distinctive side gable risalites with stepped gables was extended after 1995. The memorial stones on the parade ground of the 1st, 3rd and 4th Company of the Mecklenburg Jäger Battalion No. 14 were destroyed after 1945, that of the 2nd Company is damaged but preserved.
literature
- Hans Joachim Falk: Mecklenburg military, with sounding game, the Schwerin Werder barracks is 95th Mecklenburg magazine, regional supplement of the SVZ, Landesverlags- u. Schwerin printing company, 1999.
- Reinhard Parchmann: Military buildings in Mecklenburg 1800-1918 - military history manual. Schwerin 2001, ISBN 9783000080197 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gisela Pekrul, Manfred Krieck: Schwerin on historical postcards , part 1: Schwerin within the boundaries of 1884. The old town, Great Moor, EDITION digital, ISBN 978-3-931646-34-9 .