Biskupia Górka
Biskupia Górka (German: Bischofsberg ) is a hill in Danzig (Gdańsk) in Poland, over which the boundaries of three districts run.
history
Historically, the hill near the city center of Gdańsk was of great importance as a defense system. In 1940 the Paul Beneke House was opened here as Germany's largest youth hostel .
The hill became famous because on July 4, 1946 a total of eleven people were publicly executed there for war crimes committed in the Stutthof concentration camp . The five concentration camp guards Gerda Steinhoff , Wanda Klaff , Jenny Wanda Barkmann , Ewa Paradies and Elisabeth Becker were among those executed . Former prisoners of the Stutthof concentration camp acted as executioners . The delinquents had previously been sentenced to death by a Danzig court that met between April 25 and May 31, 1946 (see Stutthof trials ).
In 1951 the communist secret police, the Ministry of Public Security (MBP) and the barracks, took possession of a large part of the Bischofsberg. The MBP was transformed into the Committee for Public Security (KdsBP) in 1954 , was called the State Security Service (SB) in 1956 , and formed part of the “ Citizens' Militia ” from 1957 . In democratic Poland , the Bischofsberg is the location of the police , which in 2013 offered the city to also take over the passageways and two artillery cellars.
The "Salvator Cemetery", which was laid out as a plague cemetery in 1620 below the hill on the Radaune and became the second most famous cemetery in Gdańsk in the 18th century, was closed in 1946 and leveled in the 1960s . A school was built on the site.
Coordinates: 54 ° 21 ' N , 18 ° 38' E
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Oliver Loew: Danzig: Biography of a City
- ^ Quarterly publication of the Danzig Study Group of the Germany philatelic society 119 , 2003.