Residential Park West

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The main building of the former barracks on August-Bebel-Strasse

The West residential park in the city of Frankfurt (Oder) is a residential complex developed by two private investors in the 2010s . It is being built on the site and using the barracks built here around 1880 for the Prussian Grenadier Regiment Prince Karl of Prussia No. 12 . The entire former military site in the urban area on August-Bebel-Strasse covers around 190 hectares. Some barracks buildings are now used, among other things, as a state authority center, as a language center of the European University Viadrina or as a town house.

Because of the use of exposed bricks , the building complex was called "Red Barracks", and Nuhnen barracks after the district .

history

The Prussian army needed accommodations for their soldiers all over the country. Large buildings were built on the western edge of the city of Frankfurt (Oder) as accommodation for riders, stables for horses, a hospital ward, everything in simple brick architecture. Even after the end of Prussia, the barracks continued to serve as accommodation for military units. Even after the end of World War II , Red Army units moved into the complex . They continued to use all the buildings until after German reunification in 1994 the area was cleared. Up to 2010 the city administration had not been able to initiate a new use - some investors had dared to renovate and convert it, but soon gave it up again. Then Carola Leschke and Michael Schönherr from Frankfurt bought the entire property and began converting it into a residential park. The construction work on the second section should be completed by the end of 2014 and then offer apartments for 300 people. The living space is around 80 m², the warm rent of which is calculated at around 650  euros . The new owners were able to secure the financing for the renovation work with the help of loans and subsidies. The first 52 apartments in the former main accommodation building of the soldiers will be completed by July 2014 and already occupied. The building received new balconies, open arcades and loggias , the walls inside have been completely redesigned. Doors and thresholds have been designed to be barrier-free . The new residents, a mixture of tenants and apartment owners, have free gardens as well as doctor's offices, a pharmacy and a social station.

The other buildings on the barracks area, such as the horse pharmacy and stables, were converted in the first section by a Saxon investor (Fritsch) together with Michael Schönherr and marketed as terraced houses. The officers' accommodation has been converted into a dormitory for the mentally ill and has already been moved into. They had a transparent commercial building inserted into an 80-meter-long riding hall . The roof structure of the hall designed by the architect Brettschneider, which is now listed, has been renovated and serves as a trademark for the successful renovation of the barracks.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Torsten Müller: At home in the horse pharmacy. In Frankfurt (Oder), a former cavalry barracks is being converted into a residential park - with row houses, rental apartments and social projects. In: Berliner Zeitung of August 15, 2014, page 20.
  2. ↑ Row houses in the barracks courtyard in MOZ from March 17, 2011, accessed on August 15, 2014

Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 47.4 "  N , 14 ° 31 ′ 12.4"  E