Concentration camp memorial near Förrenbach
The concentration camp memorial near Förrenbach is a memorial that commemorates events that occurred during the reign of the Nazi regime. It is located about one kilometer west of the central Franconian town of Förrenbach and is reminiscent of the crematorium of the Hersbruck satellite camp .
Crematorium of the Hersbruck satellite camp
In this Kori company crematorium, numerous victims of the subcamp were cremated in the last months of the Second World War , who had succumbed to the harsh conditions of camp life and the labor required from them. After the crematorium's incineration capacity was no longer sufficient due to the high death rate among the concentration camp inmates to remove the ever-increasing piles of corpses, the camp administration finally switched over to part of the prisoners' corpses in remote places in the wild in the winter of 1944/45 to have cremated. One of these improvised cremation sites was not far from the village of Schupf , and another was near the hamlet of Hubmersberg .
Location and history of the memorial
The memorial is about 150 meters south of the shoreline of Lake Happurger See on the edge of a forest area. It consists of a massive stone cross about two meters high with only a short inscription. Like the two concentration camp memorials at Schupf and Hubmersberg , this memorial was also erected by the Hersbruck district at the beginning of the 1950s . The original installation site was initially at the same place where the crematorium had actually been. However, before this place was flooded with the damming of the Happurg reservoir in 1955, the memorial was relocated so that it is now about 30 meters above the level of the reservoir.
Only a granite signpost on the edge of State Road 2236 points to the secluded and hidden place of this memorial today. In the case of the tourist infrastructure facilities set up on the west bank of the reservoir, there is still no mention of the events that occurred at this location in 1944 and 1945. While the various recreational opportunities that can be practiced in the immediate vicinity are explained there with lavishly designed information boards, there is not the slightest indication of the existence of the former concentration camp crematorium, the place of which is only a few stones throw away at the bottom of the reservoir .
literature
- Nuremberg country . Karl Pfeiffer's Buchdruckerei und Verlag, Hersbruck 1993, ISBN 3-9800386-5-3 .
- Horst M. Auer (Ed.): Site History Franconia - Volume 2 . Ars Vivendi Verlag GmbH, Cadolzburg 2002, ISBN 3-89716-316-0 .
Web links
- Documentation Center Concentration Camp Hersbruck e. V.
- Information about the concentration camp memorial on a private website
- Location of the concentration camp memorial near Förrenbach in the BayernAtlas (accessed on October 16, 2016)
Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 42.2 " N , 11 ° 29 ′ 5.8" E