Purgstall prisoner of war camp

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The Purgstall POW camp in Purgstall an der Erlauf was a POW camp of the Danube Monarchy during the First World War .

The camp in Purgstall was built in April 1915 on an area of ​​50 hectares for 24,500 men. From May 26, 1915, Major General Viktor Moga v. Broczko commander of the camp.

From 1921 onwards, some two-storey residential buildings were built on the foundations of the camp using the building material from the demolished camp barracks. This resulted in the summer resort "Schauboden-Föhrenhain". Its users came mainly from the Viennese civil service, who developed their own social culture in this settlement (e.g. at croquet championships). The future Federal President Wilhelm Miklas was one of the visitors to the settlement .

literature

  • Franz Wiesenhofer: Trapped under the Habsburg crown. KuK prisoner of war camp in the Erlauftal , self-published, Purgstall 1997

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the website of the municipality of Purgstall an der Erlauf , accessed on April 29, 2015
  2. ↑ Erlauftaler Fire Brigade Museum , accessed on April 29, 2015.
  3. ^ Eisenstrasse Lower Austria , accessed on April 29, 2015
  4. ^ Alfred Jansa, Peter Broucek, Herta Jansa: Feldmarschalleutnant Alfred Jansa: an Austrian general against Hitler: memories. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 3-205-78148-1 , p. 142.
  5. ^ Andreas Hofer: Karl Brunner and European urban planning in Latin America, Volume 2 of urban and spatial planning. LIT Verlag, Münster 2010, ISBN 3-825-89972-1 , p. 95.
  6. ↑ Othmar Birkner: Viennese summer resort of the 20s. The history of the summer resort “Föhrenhain” in Schauboden. In: Association for the history of the city of Vienna : Viennese history sheets . Volume 63, Issue 4. LIT Verlag Wien 2008. ISSN  0043-5317 ZDB -ID 2245-7 pp. 1-14.

Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 31 ″  N , 15 ° 8 ′ 24.5 ″  E