Breitenau (Guxhagen)
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Breitenau
community Guxhagen
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 17 " N , 9 ° 28 ′ 52" E
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| Height : | 155 m above sea level NN |
| Postal code : | 34302 |
| Area code : | 05665 |
The Breitenau is a locality of Guxhagen in Northern Hesse , approx. 15 km south of Kassel , it lies on the Fulda near the mouth of the Eder . Today the A 7 motorway (Kassel- Würzburg ) runs directly past the Breitenau.
The center of the Breitenau is the Breitenau monastery from the 12th century. The former convent of Benedictine , founded around 1113 by Count Werner IV. Maggots , now houses a psychiatric hospital and has a colorful history. From 1874 to 1949 there was a correctional and rural poor institution, a workhouse. During the National Socialist era in 1933/34, this institution was an early concentration camp and from 1940 to 1945 a labor education camp ( Breitenau concentration camp ). In the post-war period there was a closed social welfare institution for girls on the site, which was closed in 1973.
literature
- Wolfgang Ayaß : The work house in Breitenau. Beggars, vagrants, prostitutes, pimps and welfare recipients in the correctional and rural poor institution in Breitenau (1874–1949). , Kassel 1992.
- Municipality of Guxhagen (ed.): Guxhagen and the Söhre. Text: Jörg Adrian Huber, photos: Rolf Wagner. Wartberg, Gudensberg 1992.
- Community of Guxhagen (ed.): 650 years of Guxhagen, 125 years of the choral society. Festschrift. 2002.
- Dietfrid Krause-Vilmar : The Breitenau concentration camp. A state protective custody camp 1933/34 , Marburg 1998.
- Gunnar Richter (Ed.): Breitenau. On the history of a National Socialist concentration and labor education camp. With contributions from Wolfgang Ayass, Ralf Löber, Gunnar Richter; Jenior and Pressler, Kassel 1993.
- Gunnar Richter: The Breitenau labor education camp (1940–1945) , Kassel 2009.
Web links
- Guxhagen community. Community of Guxhagen , accessed on August 28, 2015 (official homepage).
- Guxhagen from the air. Ghostrider, accessed on August 28, 2015 (private website).
- Breitenau monastery. In: HNA-Regiowiki . Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine (HNA), accessed on August 22, 2015 .
