Michelsdorf (Cham)

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Michelsdorf
City of Cham
Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ′ 51 ″  N , 12 ° 37 ′ 58 ″  E
Area : 57 ha
Residents : 940  (2011)
Population density : 1,649 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 93413
Area code : 09971
Michelsdorf (Bavaria)
Michelsdorf

Location of Michelsdorf in Bavaria
The Lady Chapel
The Lady Chapel

Michelsdorf is a district of the district town of Cham . In 2011 it had 940 inhabitants and an area of ​​0.57 km².

DP camp

Medal of the Belarusian Scout Association (1947)

On August 20, 1946, a camp for so-called displaced persons was opened in the village . This was used to describe civilians who were outside their home country due to the war and were unable to return or relocate to another country without help. 550 people (October 31, 1947) of various nationalities were accommodated in the camp, including Russians , Poles , Ukrainians and Belarusians . The Belarusian inmates organized their own scout association, which was named after Kastus Kalinouski and had already been founded in Regensburg. In 1947 the unit "Bavaria" was established there, headed by Vitaut Kipel, a later activist of the Belarusian exile community in the USA, and even published periodicals for scouts. In addition, a separate grammar school was set up in the camp, which taught in Belarusian and ended its first year of school on August 17, 1946. The number of students was at times between 75 and 122 young people. On June 28, 1947, it was named after the Belarusian poet Janka Kupala . Connections to the local high school in Cham were established. In October 1948 the school was divided when several teachers and students had to move to Windischbergerdorf , where 500 Belarusians already lived. The camp was closed on May 19, 1949. The grammar school itself was relocated to Backnang in 1949 , where it existed until February 1950.

Architectural monuments

  • Farmhouse on Laichstätter Weg 8
  • Lady Chapel on the Aging

Web links

Commons : Michelsdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michelsdorf at citypopulation.de
  2. ↑ a b Michelsdorf (Cham district) at its-arolsen.org
  3. ↑ Vitaut & Zora Kipel on belarus-misc.org ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.belarus-misc.org
  4. ↑ Belarusian emigration on europe-direct-cham.de ( Memento from December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive )