Weyer / Innviertel camp memorial site

The Weyer / Innviertel memorial is a memorial to the memory of the former work education and gypsy detention camp St. Pantaleon-Weyer . The camp was in Weyer, a part of the Haigermoos municipality , which was affiliated to St. Pantaleon until 1945 .

Camp history

The DAF camp was set up as a labor camp in 1940 by Gauleiter August Eigruber . The inmates, mostly citizens of the area, were called in to perform drainage work on the Moosach . The camp personnel were provided by SA men from the Alpenland group from the municipality. After five prisoners died as a result of abuse in quick succession, the St. Pantaleon community doctor reimbursed Dr. A. St. complaint and the Ried public prosecutor's office brought charges against the camp management and guards. The labor camp was closed as a labor camp in early 1941 and the proceedings were discontinued on instructions.

Now the camp was used as a gypsy detention camp. Mostly Austrian Roma (including those born in the Innviertel ) , now women and children, were interned here and used in the Ibm-Waidmoos drainage system.

In November 1941, the gypsy detention camp was closed, the surviving 301 prisoners were loaded into cattle wagons in Bürmoos and, after a short stopover in the Burgenland gypsy detention camp in Lackenbach, transported to the Litzmannstadt ghetto .

memorial

With this memorial, the parish of St. Pantaleon also reminds of its own responsibility as the administration responsible at the time, especially since many of the atrocities also took place in the local area of ​​the parish. The memorial on the Moosach was designed by the sculptor Dieter Schmidt from Fridolfing and inaugurated on June 24, 2000. The memorial is located in the area of ​​today's municipality of St. Pantaleon, not on the site of the Weyer camp, which belongs to today's municipality of Haigermoos.

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  monument

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  monument

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  Monument and plaque

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  Memorial plaque with a short history of the camp

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  Plaque at the monument

Bridge of Memory

An inconspicuous bridge that leads over the Moosach in the immediate vicinity of the first camp and connects St. Pantaleon with St. Georgen was declared a "Bridge of Remembrance" by the two mayors Herbert Huber and Friedrich Amerhauser at the suggestion of Andreas Maislinger . The campaign is in harmony with a district-wide initiative: the entire Braunau am Inn district , which wants to shake off the negative image as the “Leader's home district”, now welcomes visitors to border boards as a “peace district”. In 2006 the Austrian memorial service suggested laying “ stumbling blocks ” in numerous other places in the district.

literature

• Andreas Maislinger : "Gypsy detention camps and labor education camps" Weyer. Supplement to a local history . In: Pogrom. Journal of the Society for Threatened Peoples , Vol. 18 (1987), No. 137, pp. 33-36, ISSN  0720-5058 .
• Ludwig Laher : Heart flesh degeneration. Novel . Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2001, ISBN 3-852-18346-4 .

Web links

• Web presence of the Weyer Memorial Site
• Weyer labor education camp and gypsy detention camp (Innviertel) on Dorfzeitung.com
• A selection of texts by Ludwig Laher from Herzfleischentartung
• Work education and gypsy detention camp St. Pantaleon-Weyer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated August 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Salzburg's lowest point

Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 41.8 "  N , 12 ° 52 ′ 55.2"  E