Loborgrad Castle

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Loborgrad Castle, 2011

The Loborgrad Castle or Lobor-Grad Castle is located in the Croatian village and municipality of the same name Lobor in the Krapina-Zagorje County or Hrvatsko Zagorje north of the capital Zagreb . The construction of the Keglevich family's castle began in the 17th century. The facade and the western side of the castle were completed in the 18th century. The Chapel of the Holy Trinity ( Kapela Sv. Trojstva ) has been located in the eastern part since the 19th century .

During the Second World War , the castle in what was then the fascist Independent State of Croatia (NDH) was converted by the Croatian Ustascha as a concentration camp Loborgrad , whose prisoners were mainly Serbians and Jews , including pregnant women, as well as their children and babies.

Croatian ethnic Germans took over the management and supervision in the camp . The concentration camp commandant was Karl Heger , deputy to his brother Valdemar or Willibald (actually Vlado) Heger. To this day, nothing reminds us that there was once a women's and children's camp in the castle. There is hardly any reference to the concentration camp and the crimes committed there on the castle website either. It is not mentioned on the Lobor Municipality website. Today there is a state psychiatric institution in the castle , the Loborgrad Psychiatric Institution .

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  1. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 9: Labor education camps, ghettos, youth protection camps, police detention camps, special camps, gypsy camps, forced labor camps. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-57238-8 , p. 319.
  2. ↑ Carl Bethke : (Not) a common language? Aspects of the history of the German-Jewish relationship in Slavonia, 1900-1945 - ethnic Germans as security guards in the concentration camp: the women and children concentration camp Loborgrad in Croatia (1941-1942) . Lit Verlag , 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-11754-0 , p. 307.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror. History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 9: Labor education camps, ghettos, youth protection camps, police detention camps, special camps, gypsy camps, forced labor camps. CH Beck, Munich 2009, p. 320.
  4. ↑ Doma za psihički bolesne odrasle osobe Lobor-grad (Croatian), accessed October 29, 2013.
  5. ^ Website of the municipality of Lobor (Croatian), accessed on October 29, 2013.

Coordinates: 46 ° 7 '15.8 "  N , 16 ° 4' 2.4"  E