Internment camp Illmau
_Kautzen_Denkmal_Kriegsopfer.jpg)
The Illmau internment camp in Illmau in the Waldviertel was between 1914 and 1917 a prison camp for citizens from states that were at war with Austria-Hungary during the First World War . Citizens of the Danube Monarchy were also interned here if they were suspected of being friendly with an enemy state.
On October 1, 1914, 150 Russians and Serbs were relocated to the then vacant Illmau Castle near Kautzen of Count Grünne due to overcrowding in the Drosendorf internment camp , after it had been requested by the Waidhofen an der Thaya District Authority under the War Act.
The interned persons who were used for road construction and woodwork, classified the district captain of Waidhofen at the Thaya , Alexander Ritter Bosizio of Thurnberg and Jungenegg, as the worst of all material bearing one.
In the spring of 1915, an insulated barracks with a capacity of 10 people was built to prevent possible epidemics in the camp and a spread to the civilian population.
In November 1915 the camp was completely cleared and adapted as a family station. There was a separate classroom for children in the castle. On January 1, 1916, the camp was occupied by 163 people, mainly from the Polish-Russian border area.
In July 1917, following an order from the War Surveillance Office to close some of the internment camps in the Waidhofen an der Thaya district, the people interned here were transferred to other camps. The former internment camp was handed over to the Austrian Refugee Agency. 20 to 30 Russian civilian prisoners remained behind as workers in the camp.
literature
- Reinhard Mundschütz: Internment in the Waldviertel. The internment camps and stations of the BH Waidhofen an der Thaya 1914 - 1918. Vienna 2002 (Vienna, University, dissertation, 2002).
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 56 ′ 6.1 ″ N , 15 ° 14 ′ 8.3 ″ E