Complex of Barracks in Klaipėda (now Klaipėda University buildings)
Military town

Although it is a military facility, today the barracks are home to Klaipėda University, and the former barracks campus is full of signs testifying to their past.

The barracks were built in 1904–1907 after the Klaipėda magistrate concluded an agreement with the Prussian War Office. The built barracks complex (architect unknown) consisted of eight main (brick) buildings, of which six have survived to this day, and auxiliary wooden buildings. Two main buildings were intended for soldiers to live in. In front of the wing of each barracks residential building were brick toilets, a one-story building with a turret housed a kitchen, and canteens for non-commissioned officers and soldiers. Non-commissioned officers and lieutenants lived in the buildings located along the current Herkuus Manto Street. The eighth two-story building, located in the northwestern corner of the plot, housed stables and a warehouse. The architecture of the barracks reflects the combination of historicist and reformist searches that appeared in the architecture of Prussian government institutions at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries.

In 1907–1914, the 3rd Battalion of the 41st von Boyen Regiment was stationed in the barracks, which fought on the Eastern Front during World War I and in 1916 in the famous Battle of Verden. In 1919–1920, the volunteer battalion of the 41st Infantry Regiment of the Prussian Volunteer Corps, which was being formed, was stationed in the barracks, as well as one battalion each of the 223rd Regiment and the 103rd Regiment, which were transferred to Klaipėda. In 1920–1923, the barracks belonged to the 21st Infantry Rifle Battalion of the French Army, in 1923–1934, to the 7th Infantry Regiment of the Duke of Samogitia Butigeidis of the Lithuanian Army, and in 1934–1939, to the 6th Regiment of the Duke of Pilėnai Margis.

The barracks are now home to Klaipėda University. The former military campus can only be viewed from the outside.