Oberhollabrunn refugee camp
The Oberhollabrunn refugee camp was a camp for war refugees from the First World War in Hollabrunn , Lower Austria .
history
Austria's setbacks on the Russian front - a large part of the deployment plans had been betrayed years earlier by Colonel Alfred Redl - led to the loss of Eastern Galicia and Bukovina . Reception camps had to be built for the people who had fled, initially using conveniently located bulk boxes in the interior of the country. In October 1914, the bulk boxes from Weyerburg , Enzersdorf im Thale , Mittergrabern , Raschala and Sitzendorf an der Schmida were adapted as emergency quarters. In addition to refugees, so-called "internees" from the southern part of the monarchy were brought to the camps - these were mainly Italian civilians who were feared to cooperate with the regular Italian troops.
In Hollabrunn, too, a large refugee camp for around 6,000 people was built on the initiative of the mayor at the time, Rudolf Kolisko . Refugees from Romania predominated in the camp , but there were also many socially superior Ruthenians from Bukovina .
After the First World War, the area was briefly used by the City of Vienna for apprenticeship training, then acquired with the help of Viktor Zeidler in front of the city of Hollabrunn and gradually sold to private individuals for residential purposes.
location
The camp was located in the area of today's garden city east of the former Znojmo Street , starting around the junction to Raschala. The Russian cemetery is about on the northeast corner, but is not related to the camp.
Individual evidence
- ^ Werner Lamm: Western Weinviertel: History in Pictures , Verlag Sutton, Erfurt 2001, ISBN 3-89702-296-6
- ↑ Werner Lamm, Walter Johann Fittner, Ferry Seher: From Refugee Camp to Garden City , Hollabrunner Museumsverein, Hollabrunn 1999
- ↑ Plan of the camp
Coordinates: 48 ° 33 ′ 1.2 " N , 16 ° 4 ′ 52.8" E