Lannach Castle

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View of Lannach Castle from the south, postcard from 1910

Lannach Castle is located in the municipality of Lannach in the Kainach Valley, southwest of Graz .

Owner story

From the 14th century on, the lords of Lannach lived here; from the first half of the 15th century the Galler family. The present four-wing castle was built by Christof von Galler between 1590 and 1610. A fire in 1714 caused great damage to the building, which was soon restored. In the 19th century the castle was owned by the Barons von Mandell, in the 20th century it was acquired by Franz Kandler , who founded a roof tile and pottery factory there.

Lannach Castle in the Nazi era

During the Nazi dictatorship , the SS Ahnenerbe Institute for Plant Genetics under Heinz Brücher and a branch of the Ravensbrück concentration camp and - from March 1944 - the Mauthausen concentration camp were housed in the castle. Nine Jehovah's Witnesses were interned there as forced laborers. Strictly speaking, there was a subcommand from Schloss Mittersill in Schloss Lannach , which in turn was a satellite camp of the Ravensbrück concentration camp and the Mauthausen concentration camp . Forced labor was done for the SS Institute for Plant Genetics. On May 9, 1945, the women were liberated by the Russian army.

The castle after 1945

In the first years after the war, British occupation forces were stationed in the castle.

From 1945 u. a. the sculptor Rodolfo Zilli opened his studio in the castle.

In 1947 Zirm and Loew founded the Lannacher Heilmittel GmbH in Lannach. Between 1966 and 1980, Leopold Bartenstein and his wife Hannelore took over the majority stake in this company. The company GL Pharma , which was created through a merger of Lannacher Heilmittel GmbH with the Viennese company Gerot Pharmazeutika, is still owned by the Bartenstein family and is based in Lannach Castle.

In August 2006 there was a political controversy with the owner of the castle, Martin Bartenstein , because of his statement that he had not known anything about the concentration camp outpost in the castle in 1944/45. Bartenstein then commissioned the Graz historian Stefan Karner to research the history of the castle and the forced laborers. The study presented outlines a precise picture of the forced laborers and their living and working conditions in Lannach Castle.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.lannach.at/lannach-text.php?kat=schloss
  2. ^ Heide Gsell: The Bible Students in the Mauthausen concentration camp. In Andreas Baumgaertner, Ingrid Bauz, Jean-Marie Winkler (eds.), Between Mother Cross and Gas Chamber. Perpetrators and fellow travelers or resistance and persecution ?. Vienna, 2008, edition mauthausen.
  3. ↑ Federal Law Gazette I 1967, 234 - 254
  4. ↑ List of the satellite camps ( memento of February 2, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) on the website of the Mauthausen Memorial.
  5. ^ Die Presse, April 29, 2005
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 4: Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Ravensbrück. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52964-X .
  7. ↑ Andreas Baumgartner: “The forgotten women of Mauthausen. The female prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp and their history ”, Vienna
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 22, 2015 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. (PDF; 1.3 MB) H. Halbrainer: The "forgotten" Styrian subcamp in Lannach Castle @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.memorial-ebensee.at
  9. ↑ [1] (PDF; 3.3 MB) Klaus Taschwer: "Research for the Führer"
  10. ^ Stefan Karner, Heide Gsell, Philipp Lesiak: Schloss Lannach 1938–1949. Graz: Leykam, 2007, ISBN 3-7011-0109-4 .

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Coordinates: 46 ° 56 ′ 43.8 "  N , 15 ° 19 ′ 57.4"  E