The Rossauer Barracks (in German, ''Rossauer Kaserne'') is a barracks in the 9th district of

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

, in the Rossau quarter of the city. It serves as the headquarters of the

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. In January 2020 the Rossauer Barracks has been renamed to Bernardis- Schmid-Kaserne.

History

It was built as the Crown Prince Rudolf Barracks (''Kronprinz-Rudolf-Kaserne'', named after

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), at the same time as the Franz-Joseph-Kaserne and

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, as part of an overall approach to protect the city in the aftermath of the

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References

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