The LAH Brracks at Lichterfelde

[DonC]

Spent an early morning exploring the grounds of the former Prussian Cadet School/LAH Kaserne/Andrews Barracks site in Berlin Lichterfelde last week. Enjoy the tour!

First, the famous entrance with the two stone "Reichs Rottenf******252;hrer" encased in their concrete sarcophagi...

Don

[DonC]

The plaque on the wall...

[DonC]

The plinths with the soldier's statues encased in concrete. I always wondered why they were just not trucked away...

[DonC]

Guess What Used to Be Up Here....

[DonC]

The Kasernekirche...

[DonC]

A Wilhelmine barracks....

[Robin Lumsden]

The thing I remember most about that place is that it's right in the middle of a housing estate. The houses seem to be as old as the barracks.

I expected it to be set in its own grounds, well away from anything else.

[DonC]

A more modern baracks being demolished - I do not know if this was put up in the TR era or by the American Army after the war, but it is going, going...

[DonC]

The thing I remember most about that place is that it's right in the middle of a housing estate. The houses seem to be as old as the barracks.

I expected it to be set in its own grounds, well away from anything else.

I passed some incredible homes on the walk from the S-Bahn station to the Barracks - apparently Lichterfeld was - and is - a high rent neighborhood....

Don

[Robin Lumsden]

Happy memories, Don.

As you come out of the barracks, cross the road and walk straight up that long street, you come to a garage selling cars.

The name of the garage........EICKE motors!

I thought that was strangely appropriate!

[DonC]

I saw that, too, Robin, and thought the same thing! Here's a shot of the entrance to the swimming pool, with appropriately Teutonic statuary...

Don

[DonC]

The rear of the entrance, with a policeman who came up to me after this shot and with a wink told me there was to be no photography in the area - after I had taken about fifteen shots!

Don

[markus]

LAH-Lichterfede

For me as an LAH collector the 2 times I spent on these holy grounds was the max. I even took along a piece of sandstone which had fallen down from the building

LAH collectors: THE place to be!

A morning walk at the Kadettenanstalt...

[Bobwirtz]

Don C,

Thank you for the tour. Next time I get to Berlin I'll have to find this and (take some secret photos too) see it. I have that book, Berlin: Then and Now, which is a great guide. From the train station in 2004 I saw the only remaining flak tower at Humbolthian.

Bob

[SvenWittnebel]

The Kasernekirche...

No, it's the Andrew’s Chapel. Build like many other buildings by the US Army as more than 3/4 of the old barracks were destroyd.

Today it's one place of the Bundesarchiv.

The most US buildings are destroyed now (garages and the motor pool) for new single-family houses.