Sopronnyék prisoner of war camp
The Sopronnyék prisoner of war camp was a prisoner of war camp of the Austro-Hungarian army in what was then German-West Hungary between 1915 and 1920 . In addition to prisoners of war from World War I , Austro-Hungarian civilians were also held here. There is no meaningful information about the actual numbers of the occupancy of the Sopronnyék prisoner of war camp in today's Neckenmarkt .
location
The approximately 2,000 meter long and 450 meter wide area of the camp comprised land that had been confiscated on the basis of the Hungarian War Service Act of 1912 in the area of the municipalities of Neckenmarkt and Haschendorf . The camp command was in Samersdorf Castle .
history
On April 5, 1915, an order from the War Ministry ordered the military command in Pozsony (Bratislava) to set up a prisoner-of-war camp for 15,000 men in Neckenmarkt. According to a report from the camp command dated January 31, 1916, the camp had a capacity of 13,670 men and at that time was already occupied by 2,758 people.
At the time of its greatest expansion, the camp consisted of 500 barracks . Since the plan was to continue using the POW camp as a military training area after the end of the war, the medical buildings in particular were built using solid construction.
At the end of 1916, 400 accommodations were to be created for captured Romanian officers, in fact 440. In the spring of 1917, some of the captured officers were transferred to Zalaszentgrót and Plan. Officers captured by the German army were brought into the German Empire .
In addition to prisoners of war from various nations, expatriate civil internees from Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Sandžak were also kept in the Neckenmarkt prisoner-of-war camp , as they had been removed from the war zone due to actual or suspected political unreliability. These civilians had no rights and their living conditions in the camp were not allowed to be checked by the Red Cross , which visited the prisoners of war several times.
From 1917 deceased camp inmates were entered in the death register by the Neckenmarkt registry office. In the period from July 3, 1917 to August 11, 95 Russian, 94 Italian, 50 Romanian and 12 Serbian prisoners of war were registered as dead. A separate military cemetery was set up for those who died in the POW camp . In 1916 this had to be enlarged.
After prisoners of war and civilian internees had cleared the Neckenmarkt prisoner of war camp, the accommodations initially served as quarters for some families who did not have their own accommodation. From 1920 onwards the warehouse was dismantled and all usable parts were sold, and the previous landowners got their land back. Only the military cemetery in the cadastral community of Haschendorf remained, but it was reduced in size at an unknown point in time.
literature
- Ernst Mihalkovits: The prisoner of war and internment camp of World War I in Neckenmarkt Mittleres Burgenland 1915 - 1918 (dissertation), Vienna, March 2003
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Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′ 1.5 ″ N , 16 ° 34 ′ 10.1 ″ E