Eichethofsiedlung

The Eichethofsiedlung in the south of the city of Salzburg was built in the years after 1954 on former littered meadows on the eastern edge of the Leopoldskroner Moor and north of the old eponymous "Eichethof" located on the Almkanal and is located south of the Gneis district and east of the closed settlement area of Leopoldskroner Moos . The Eichethofsiedlung has about 700 residents in the main residence and is summarized together with the birch settlement under the term Gneiss Süd .

In the first post-war years , many refugees lived in barracks . The people of Salzburg themselves found the poor living conditions increasingly unbearable and spoke of a “shame in the barracks”.

At first, the refugees saw themselves as being little supported by state and city politics. Only the Catholic and Evangelical Churches helped decisively from the beginning to alleviate the misery in the barracks and took steps to enable the ethnic Germans to develop new settlements with their significant initiative. One of the most important settlements was the Eichethofsiedlung, which first began along the Kronstädter Straße, named after Kronstadt in Transylvania (Romania).

In the course of a barrack removal program created by the state and city of Salzburg in 1959, which took up and continued the initiative, the last barrack camps of the “ethnic Germans” were later closed.