Remonteschule (Gardelegen)

The Remonteschule was a barracks for the training of cavalry or Remonte in the Hanseatic city of Gardelegen .

A riding and driving school for the province of Saxony had existed in Gardelegen since the 1920s . After Gardelegen became a garrison town again in 1937, this school became a military facility with a bomb-proof staff building and stables. After arriving in Gardelegen in April 1945, after death marches from the Mittelbau-Dora and Hanover-Stöcken concentration camps, more than 1,000 concentration camp prisoners were penned into the buildings of the Remonteschule. SS guards, members of the Wehrmacht , the Reich Labor Service , the Volkssturm and other NS Organizations took them from there on the evening of April 13, 1945 to the outskirts and murdered them in the massacre in the Isenschnibber barn . After the withdrawal of the Soviet soldiers, the buildings of the Remonteschule were demolished in the 1990s.

Individual evidence

^ Herbert Becker: Gardelegen: a thousand years of one city . Sutton Verlag GmbH, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-840-9 , pp. 84–.
↑ Internet site of the Isenschnibbe barn memorial in Gardelegen. Accessed January 31, 2018 .
↑ Illustrated brief information about the Remonteschule on a private website ; accessed on October 5, 2015

52.53 11.403611111111Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 48 ″ N , 11 ° 24 ′ 13 ″ E

[Becker2011-1] Herbert Becker: Gardelegen: a thousand years of one city . Sutton Verlag GmbH, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-840-9 , pp. 84–.

[2] Internet site of the Isenschnibbe barn memorial in Gardelegen. Accessed January 31, 2018 .

[3] Illustrated brief information about the Remonteschule on a private website ; accessed on October 5, 2015