Burghausen concentration camp cemetery

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View of the cemetery area

Burghausen concentration camp cemetery

Country: Germany
Region: Altötting district
Place: Burghausen
Inauguration: July 28, 1945

The Burghausen concentration camp cemetery is a concentration camp cemetery in Burghausen . It is a cemetery and memorial for 253 victims of the Mettenheimer-Hart concentration camp . The inscription on the memorial stone of the cemetery reads: "Dedicated to the deceased concentration camp inmates by the American military government and the city of Burghausen in 1945". Underneath, "253 unknown concentration camp deaths lie here, including prisoners of Jewish denomination". The execution was based on a design by the architect Wilhelm Schott.

location

The cemetery is not far from the powder tower of Burghausen Castle . This can be reached on foot via the Alois-Buchleitner-Weg.

The dead

On July 28, 1945, 253 of the total of 2,249 concentration camp prisoners who were originally buried in mass graves in Mühldorfer Hart were buried. The victims were prisoners from the Mettenheim concentration camp near Mühldorf am Inn , who perished there in the last days of the war in 1945.

See also

Web links

Commons : Burghausen concentration camp cemetery  - collection of images, videos and audio files
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  • Burghausen. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. Bavaria. Editor: Felicitas Grützmann.

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 25.5 ″  N , 12 ° 49 ′ 31.4 ″  E

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jewish cemeteries in Upper Bavaria. Retrieved January 26, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b Volker Liedke: Building age plan for urban redevelopment Burghausen . In: City of Burghausen (ed.): Burghauser Geschichtsblätter . tape 34 . Burghausen 1978.