Mitterndorf refugee camp

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The Mitterndorf refugee camp was a camp in Mitterndorf an der Fischa , which existed from 1914 to 1919 and mainly housed refugees from the Italian-speaking Trentino , at that time part of the Kronland Tyrol . It partially extended to the area of ​​the neighboring municipality of Gramatneusiedl .

In the autumn of 1914, Russian troops invaded Galicia and drove out the local population. In 1914, the former carpet factory of Philipp Haas & Sons in Mitterndorf began to be expanded into a warehouse. After the Italian entry into the war in May 1915, mostly refugees from the southern parts of the Trentino on the border with Italy, which were located directly on the new Italian-Austrian front, were quartered . Refugees from the Austrian coastal region were also accepted . The warehouse had to be expanded continuously. There were several schools, a hospital, factories, and light railways, a camp cemetery, etc. The later founder of the psychodrama Jacob Levy Moreno , who also carried out sociometric experiments there, worked at times in the camp hospital . After the war ended, the refugees returned to their old homeland.

Memorial at the camp cemetery

80 years after the camp was closed and the refugees returned, a memorial for the 1900 Italians who died in the camp was erected in 1998 at the former camp cemetery ( Lage ). In 2015, Bruno Dorigatti , President of the Provincial Council of the Province of Trento, visited the memorial.

  • simple wooden cross

  • Note of piety from the mayor

  • bilingual boards of the communities most affected

  • Information board (October 20, 2001)

  • Memorial plaque of the partner municipality Vallarsa

Trivia

literature

  • Friederike Scherr: Jakob Levy Moreno in the refugee camp Mitterndorf ad Fischa - a search for clues. Vienna 2010, Philosophical diploma thesis at the University of Klagenfurt 2011

Web links

Commons : Refugee camp Mitterndorf  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Jacob Levy Moreno , accessed December 19, 2017.
  2. ↑ Dorigatti ricorda i profughi trentini morti in Austria. In: Trentino. October 5, 2015, accessed on November 17, 2015 (Italian, German  Dorigatti recalls the refugees from Trentino who died in Austria ).
  3. ↑ "Giuseppe Angelico Dallabrida (1874-1959). Pittore e profugo a mitterndorf an der fischa". In: TrentinoCultura. Retrieved November 17, 2015 (Italian, images).

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 8 ″  N , 16 ° 28 ′ 22 ″  E