The casern used as its headquarters was christened Wharton Barracks. Basement studio has turned into the apartment where we lived like in casern. In the fall of 1914 the entire casern was completed. About 1780 Joseph II dedicated the facility to a casern. Additional buildings were constructed on the casern to make room for more soldiers. I the casern was used to confine Russian, French and British officers. The casern predates the division, which was not formed until May 1942. In a barracks, each of the dormitory buildings is referred as a "caserna" (casern).