Concentration camp memorial near Hubmersberg
The concentration camp memorial near Hubmersberg is a memorial that commemorates events that occurred during the rule of the Nazi regime.
Location and history
The memorial is located about one and a half kilometers southwest of the small Middle Franconian hamlet Hubmersberg , a district of the municipality of Pommelsbrunn . It is located in a small forest clearing near the narrow country road that connects Hubmersberg with the Pegnitz valley.
The memorial commemorates the site of a corpse cremation site where the cremation of victims of the Hersbruck satellite camp took place on a November night in 1944 . During that one night, the corpses of around 300 concentration camp inmates were cremated, who had died as a result of the harsh conditions of camp life and the work required of them.
The memorial consists of a stylized grave slab with an inscription. An obelisk about five and a half meters high has been erected at one corner of the tombstone, the top of which is formed by a stone flame. The memorial was erected in 1950 by the then district of Hersbruck and, like the concentration camp memorial near Schupf, is based on a design by Ernst Rücker . As building material for the memorial granite was from the quarries at Flossenbürg used where the Flossenburg concentration camp to the main camp had the satellite camp Hersbruck found.
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 on the concentration camp memorial near Hubmersberg on a private website
- Location of the concentration camp memorial near Hubmersberg in the BayernAtlas (accessed on October 16, 2016)
Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '9.5 " N , 11 ° 30' 26.1" E