List of displaced persons in Austria
This list of displacement monuments in Austria records the displacement monuments in Austria .
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image | place | location | year | description |
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Bad Pirawarth | Mass grave in the cemetery | "Resting place of the expellees in 1945" with the name. Austrian Black Cross | ||
Aigen in the Mühlkreis | Bärnstein, memorial to the expellees from the Bohemian Forest | 1960 | "These places were our home until 1946." | |
Drasenhofen | Mass grave in the cemetery | “Wanderer who is staying at this place, pray for the 186 dead resting in this mass grave! They were honorable citizens of Brno! Having been driven from their homeland in 1945, they staggered across the border, dying. Include in your prayer the thousands upon thousands of victims of the Brno death march, who exhaled their souls as nameless people across the border on the path of the refugee roads. In indissoluble loyalty: The surviving country folk of the "Bruna" - Vienna. " | ||
Ebenthal | Memorial plaque by the large cross in front of the cemetery | "All victims of the displaced and their relatives." | ||
Erdberg (municipality of Poysdorf) | Mass grave in the cemetery | “Disenfranchised and driven out, they had to die because they confessed to their people. In honor of 82 Brno people who fell by the wayside in 1945! Their surviving compatriots united in the "Bruna" in an indissoluble bond. Austrian Black Cross - War Graves Care. " | ||
Frauenkirchen | stone memorial cross next to the Frauenkirchen basilica | 1984 | “To the dead, fallen and missing of the lost homeland. The Germans of the Heidebogen expelled in 1946. " | |
Graz Castle Hill | Kanonenbastei, memorial of the German Lower Styrians | 1970 | See Lower Styria | |
Graz Castle Hill | Plaque | "1944-1979. The Danube Swabians. Thanks to our new home - the city of Graz and the state of Styria. In memory of our innocent victims of war and persecution. " | ||
Guglwald | Memorial chapel | "Memorial of the Bohemian Forests from the home parishes Friedberg, Heuraffl, Kapellen, Exp. Kieneberg." | ||
Gurk (Carinthia) | Heraldic panels and museum of the Danube Swabians | 1998 | ||
Haslach an der Mühl | Sponsorship monument on the market square | Friedberg , Kaplitz district | ||
Klaffer on the Hochficht | Memorial of the Salnau , bronze plaque | “Erected to commemorate the expulsion of the Germans in 1945/46. The fallen of the world wars 1914–1918, 1939–1945. The parish of Salnau in the Bohemian Forest, the parishes and suburbs: Parkfried, Salnau, Oiberg; Pernek, Spitzenberg; Hintring, Sonnberg, Uhligstal, Gehäng, Langhaig; Neuofen, Neuhäuser-Salnau, Hirschbergen, Haberdorf. Klaffer, August 7th, 1988. " | ||
Klagenfurt | Memorial stone in the Europapark Klagenfurt | 1982/2004 | “Grove of the Volksdeutsche Landsmannschaften. Thanks to our new home. Danube Swabians, Sudeten Germans, Lower Styrians a. Mießaler, Gottscheer, Transylvanian Saxons, Kanaltaler. To commemorate the dead of war, displacement and flight. " | |
Klagenfurt | Mosaic of the Danube Swabians (settlement area, coat of arms of the Landsmannschaft, Ulmer Schachtel ) in the Danube Swabian Park | |||
Klagenfurt | Memorial plaque on the Heiligengeistkirche | “In this church, Vicar General Prelate DDr. Josef Kadras held the first memorial and thanksgiving service for the ethnic Germans expellees on November 21, 1965; Danube Swabians, Sudeten Germans, Gottscher, Lower Styrians and Mississals, Transylvanian Saxons. " | ||
Kleinschweinbarth | South Moravian Cross on Kreuzberg | “On June 1, 1925, the monument to the heroes erected under the leadership of the Türngau South Moravia near Rosenburg in the Pollau Mountains was inaugurated in the presence of 30,000 South Moravia. 50 years later - on June 1st, 1975 - the South Moravians who were driven from their homeland are renewing this memorial in honor of the fallen in both world wars and the victims of the expulsion. " | ||
Linz | Memorial and memorial of the expellees on Samhaberstraße / driveway to the Pöstlingberghotel | 1975 | “The country teams of the Buchenland Germans, Danube Swabians, Carpathian Germans, Transylvanian Saxons, Sudeten Germans.” Coat of arms of the Republic of Austria , coat of arms of five former crown lands : “Let the foreigner become your home. Home never to a stranger. " | |
Mandlstein | Commemorative plate for a Krummenauer couple with services rendered to the Sumava Museum Vienna | 1977 | “Memorial of the expulsion in 1945. To harbor or respond to hatred and quarrels is weakness - overlook them and repay them with love is strength. Adalbert Stifter. Remember the dead refugees. " | |
Mistelbach (Lower Austria) | Mass grave in the cemetery | “Far from home they collapsed and found their grave here. In honor of 131 Brno residents who did not survive the expulsion in 1945. In loyalty: their surviving compatriots united in the Bruna . " | ||
New Feffernitz | Memorial of the Danube Swabians on Bogenweg. The village of Neu-Feffernitz came into being after a camp for German-speaking refugees was closed. | |||
Poysdorf | Mass grave in the cemetery | “Persecuted, tortured and driven out, in 1945 they had to abandon everything that was dear to them in this world! In honor of 122 Brno residents. In faithfulness to their companions who are united in the Landsmannschaft Bruna. Austrian Black Cross War Graves Commission. " | ||
Reingers | Memorial of the displaced persons at the parish church of Reingers | 1965 | “Remember the victims of the evictions from Neubistritz, environs and South Moravia in 1945.” See Nová Bystřice . In 1972 the community sponsored the displaced. | |
Ried im Innkreis | Memorial of the Danube Swabians in the city cemetery | 2005 | ||
Salzburg | Memorial at the Salzburg municipal cemetery | "To the memory of our dear dead in our homeland Sudetenland." | ||
Schöneben | Memorial cross in front of the Bohemian Forest Church | “Do not forget the dead of the displaced in prayer. By the Böhmerwaldbund Äigen. " | ||
Seeboden on Lake Millstatt | Memorial stone in Paul-von-Klinger-Park | 2001 | "1945-2000. East Prussians, Silesians, Sudeten Germans. Dedicated to all expellees. " | |
Sankt Anna am Aigen | Memorial stone with bronze plaque on a hill near St. Anna | 2001 | “In memory of the displaced and dead from the communities of Füchselsdorf, Guitzenhof, Rothenberg and Sinnersdorf in 1945–1946. Erected in 2001. " | |
St. Laurentius (St. Lorenzen ob Eibiswald) | Memorial for the expelled and perished Mahrenbergers | 1964 | ||
St. Oswald near Haslach | Memorial of the expellees from the former parish of Deutsch Reichenau . 14 granite stones bear the place names of the parish | |||
Stammersdorf | Mass grave in the cemetery | “In 1945 a world collapsed for them. They searched for freedom and found death! In memory of 105 expellees from Brno. In fidelity beyond death: their surviving compatriots united in the Bruna. " | ||
Steinebrunn | Mass grave in the cemetery | “This tombstone was erected in honor of the 55 displaced Brno people who were buried here. But at the same time it is supposed to be a memorial for the thousands upon thousands of unfortunate people who perished miserably on the death march in 1945. No gravestone, no burial mound tells of their death across the border! Their surviving compatriots united in the Bruna in indissoluble loyalty. Austrian Black Cross - War Graves Commission. " | ||
Ulrichsberg (mountain) | Europe memorial | 1987 | “Our fallen and victims of flight and displacement. Volksdeutsche Landsmannschaften Danube Swabians, Sudeten Germans, Gottscheer, Lower Styria and Mießaler, Transylvanian Saxons. ”See Ulrichsberggemeinschaft . | |
Unterretzbach | Memorial of the South Moravians | 1985 | ||
Wagna | Memorial on the site of the former refugee camp | "In memory of the ethnic German refugee camp Wagna 1945–1963." | ||
Wagna | Memorial on the site of the former refugee camp | "Donauschwaben, Gottscheer, German-Lower Styrian and other expellees." | ||
Wagna | Memorial on the site of the former refugee camp | "We would like to thank the Republic of Austria, the State of Styria and the market town of Wagna." | ||
Wagna | Memorial on the site of the former refugee camp | "Erected in gratitude in 1995, the former camp youth." | ||
Wetzelsdorf | Mass grave in the cemetery | “Resting place of the expellees in 1945.” Names of the deceased with years of birth. Austrian Black Cross War Graves Commission. | ||
Vienna | Favoriten , memorial plaque in Sappohogasse 20 | 2001 | “Settlement of the displaced persons. In memory of the victims of the flight and expulsion of the old Austrians with German mother tongue from their ancestral home countries in the years 1944–1946. The district representative of Favoriten, Association of the Volksdeutsche Landsmannschaften of Austria. " | |
Vienna | Kaasgrabenkirche , memorial of the Danube Swabians | |||
Wolkersdorf in the Weinviertel | Mass grave in the cemetery | “They collapsed here under the weight of the cross of homelessness. In honor of 27 Brno people who were buried here after the expulsion in 1945. In loyalty to their surviving compatriots united in the Bruna. " |
See also
- List of memorial sites for expellees from South Moravia in Lower Austria
- Association of the Volksdeutsche Landsmannschaften of Austria