Gundelsdorf (Kronach)

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Gundelsdorf
City of Kronach
Coordinates: 50 ° 16 ′ 47 "  N , 11 ° 18 ′ 9"  E
Incorporation : January 1, 1978
Postal code : 96317
Area code : 09261
Gundelsdorf (Bavaria)
Gundelsdorf

Location of Gundelsdorf in Bavaria

Gundelsdorf has been part of the district town of Kronach in the Upper Franconian district of Kronach in Bavaria since January 1, 1978 .

The Haßlach flows through the village, which lies in the Franconian Forest and there at the foot of the Kienberg .

Gundelsdorf, which consists of the districts Gundelsdorf, Untergundelsdorf and Rottelsdorf, has about 936 inhabitants. The B 85 runs through the village. The Gundelsdorf stop is on the Frankenwaldbahn , which connects Lichtenfels with Saalfeld .

Gundelsdorf subcamp

In Gundelsdorf and neighboring Knell village 1944 until the arrival of American troops in April existed from autumn 1945 satellite camp of the concentration camp Flossenburg . The prisoners were 100 Polish Jewish women deported from the Plaszow concentration camp and up to 90 Jewish men of different nationalities who were brought here from various other camps. The majority were used as forced labor in the Air Force replenishment warehouse in Gundelsdorf, around 20 of the women had to sew military uniforms in a Knellendorf company. Since 2002, a memorial stone erected on the initiative of the Evangelical Youth on the cycle and footpath running parallel to Bundesstrasse 85 between the two locations has been a reminder of the satellite camps.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pascal Cziborra: Gundelsdorf Concentration Camp - Fischer's List (=  The satellite camps of the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp . Volume 6 ). Lorbeer Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-938969-11-3 .
  2. ↑ Barbara Heinlein: The former Gundelsdorf subcamp . In: District of Kronach (Hrsg.): Local history yearbook of the district of Kronach . tape 23-2001 / 02 . Anton Hauguth-Verlag, Kronach 2002, ISBN 3-9803467-6-5 , p. 217-223 .