Oxford Kaserne

2 Marta Rodríguez Teimoy - 2 years ago

Given the hardship of not finding any accomodation in Münster, I stayed here at Oxford Kaserne for my Erasmus semester. The ground floor is the emergency accommodation for students and the first floor is for long term accommodation, but the facilities are the same. The difference is that you will share a room with one or two people in the emergency accommodation, whereas you have a room of your own in the first floor. The price does not vary: 300 euros (Warmmiete).

Rooms
You will need to deep-clean the room that you are given since all the rooms are unclean and dusty, with carpeted floors full of big, reddish stains. Any complains to the Studierendenwerk are a waste of time. The size of the room varies, but mine was about 23 square metres, which is bigger than the average room in any other student residence in Münster (i.e Wilhempskamp residence). You could tell that the room had been uninhabited for years and nobody dared to clean it at all... The rooms are practically unfurnished, but you will receive a bed with a mattress minimum, and some rooms have tables and chairs. Not all rooms have curtains.

Kitchen
The kitchens are also quite big, with 2-3 stoves/ovens and a shared fridge. There may also be other kitchen supplies if any student in your corridor has decided to buy them. The cleanness of the kitchen mostly depends on you and the people on your corridor but there is cleaning service twice a week, which also cleans the bathrooms.

Bathrooms
There are like 4 showers per corridor. One of them is a regular one, with good floor, shower head, water temperature regulator... But the rest look like prison showers. Therefore, mostly everyone uses the good shower and thus they clock quite easily or stop working... It is pretty disgusting.
There are like 5 toilets (without top cover lol) per corridor.

Location
The bus stops are located at the entrance of the facility (which takes 3-4 mins from your block), with lines 1 and 12 to the city centre (around 16 mins to Aegiidimarkt and 25 mins to the Hauptbahnhof). For the night bus you need to go to Dieckmanstrasse which takes 8-9 minutes and then half an hour to get to the city centre.

3 Itzá Hernández - 3 years ago

Took me sometime to describe this place. It recently got acquired by studierendenwerk and it is basically an emergency living. When we got there in April there was nothing (picture to the left) but after some IKEA trips (Ösnabruck) I managed to make it livable. They have staff cleaning the kitchen and bathrooms that are shared, nevertheless the place keeps getting dirty and dirty...the kitchen until July got a fridge and a trash can, and living all those months without it was awful. The location is nice, it's close to a big supermarket (Marktkauf) and the neighborhood Gievenbeck is very nice and have an active Pokemon go community. If there is nothing, the price of 300€ is ok for what they offer but if not, please choose to live somewhere else. It's not suitable for staying that long.

3 Robert Thomas - 4 years ago

Sadly having served here in the late 80's, it was rather sad to see nothing much had been done with the place. The building are still well preserved but has a feel of a ghost town.

3 russ haywood - 3 years ago

Served here with the guards in the 80s and 90s sad to see it like this I'm sure the germans could have found a better use for it. What is the old officers mess used for now ??

5 Mart Cads - 2 years ago

Lots of history at this place. I was posted there from 94-98 with 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards.

1 EnglishTeacherAziz - 3 years ago

A lot of my friends have lived there. They have very poor conditions :(

5 Hall Clive - 2 years ago

Spent many years there, sad to see that most of it is going to be torn down.