Schacht speeches

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The Reden shaft was a shaft operated from 1842 to March 1905 in Radlin in the Wodzisław Śląski district . During the Second World War the shaft speeches was an execution site , where several residents of the area around Rybnik and Loslau by the functionaries of the Nazi regime were murdered.

history

The Reden shaft, actually shaft II , belonged to the Reden colliery and originally had a depth of 204.5 m. Hard coal was mined in the colliery . After the shutdown, the mine was taken over by the Rybnik coal union. The shaft was converted into a weather shaft for the Emma colliery and sunk to around 300 m. After it was closed again in the 1930s, the bottom 70 m of the shaft fell.

From winter 1944 to February 1945, National Socialists fell alive into the shaft. After the occupation of Radlin by the Red Army in March 1945, a commission of inquiry and an expedition were formed from the miners of the Emma mine . Alojzy Mika, miner and former Silesian insurgent , was lowered into the shaft on a rope and discovered human remains in the water. The bodies of two men and six women were recovered from the pit. The number of victims is probably higher; it is believed that more bodies were driven into the tunnels by the current of water .

Five people were identified from the victims:

Another corpse came from an unknown Jew who had tried to escape from the death march from Auschwitz to Mauthausen . The body of Franciszek Kun, who also died in the shaft, was never found.

These eight victims were buried in the Catholic parish cemetery in Radlin-Birtultau and a secular tomb was erected there with the following inscription:

CZEŚĆ POLEGŁYM BOHATEROM / ŻYWCEM WRZUCONYM / DO SZYBU “REDEN” / PRZEZ ZBIRÓW HITLEROWSKICH

The translation is:

Honor the fallen heroes who were thrown alive into the "speeches" shaft by the Hitlerite villains

In the mid-1990s, a new tomb in the shape of a cross with the same inscription was erected there. In 1973 a memorial was erected on the disused shaft, which was declared a grave, and a cross was subsequently attached.

literature

  • Bogdan Cimała, Paweł Porwoł, Wacław Wieczorek: Wypisy do dziejów Rybnika i Wodzisławia Śląskiego . Instytut Śląski w Opolu, Opole 1985.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 9.73 "  N , 18 ° 27 ′ 42.42"  E