Luitpoldkaserne

Barracks

Location of the Luitpold barracks in Bavaria

The original aeronaut barracks and later Luitpold barracks in the Infantry Road 19 in Munich, built in 1896, served as accommodation for the property Founded in 1890, Luftschifferabteilung the Bavarian army.

, Which has grown into a major strength garrison Munich dominated with its many barracks and other facilities on the image Oberwiesenfeld in the period before the First World War. 1931/32 extended to the Luitpold barracks to an area of ​​approximately 5.5 hectares. After the end of World War II, the buildings were renovated and used since 1950 by the U.S. Army. 1955 fed the newly founded Bundeswehr.

In 1957 the Medical Corps of the Army school to Munich in the Luitpold barracks and was reclassified two years later in the " medical school of the German Armed Forces ". In 1963 it was renamed the Medical School in " Academy of Medical and Health of the German Armed Forces " and their 1980 move to the property Ernst -von- Bergmann -Kaserne.

2005 pulled the Armed Forces Vocational School in Munich from the southern part of the property into a rented private object in the Edmund- Rumpler -Straße 9 in Munich- Freimann.

Conversion

In 1999, to the Luitpold barracks as military property, and leased their buildings to establishing a permanent new use. Since mid-2000, new media and advertising are resident in the northern part of companies in the field.

The City of Munich acquired the site in 2004 and long-term planning a mixed use residential and commercial purposes.

On the site of the Werkbundsiedlung Wiesenfeld should be made, one initiated by the German Werkbund housing estate, which is in the tradition of the Werkbund housing estates. The project failed because the city council of Munich rejected the concept in 2007. In April 2010, a new urban design competition has been decided for the site by the City Council of Munich.