Lamsdorf military training area

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Measurement table from approx. 1930: Location of the internment camp 1945–1946 (green), "Britenlager" (Stalag VIIIB, light blue), "Russian camp" (Stalag VIIIF, red) and the camp from the Franco-German War (dark blue)

The Lamsdorf military training area is located next to the Silesian town of Lamsdorf .

history

In 1860 the Prussian military ministry determined the need for a new training area for the artillery of the 6th Silesian Brigade from Breslau . The Ministry bought over 330 hectares of land for the purpose of establishing the military training area. which was near Lamsdorf. The site was between the villages of Schaderwitz - Kleuschnitz - Jacobsdorf - Guschwitz - Sabine -Wiershel in the vicinity of Lambsdorf. The land purchases lasted until 1862. The first maneuver on the new training area took place in the summer of 1864. From September 1870, French prisoners of war were housed at the military training area. Something similar happened in the First and Second World Wars . After the First World War, the military training area was abandoned and only refurbished again during the 1930s.

From 1940 the following large prisoner of war camps were built on the site:

  • Stalag VIII B with 3,000 British prisoners (also called British camp)
  • Stalag VIII F Lamsdorf with 200,000 Soviet prisoners (also called Russian camp)

In 1945 the area was conquered by the Red Army . From 1945 to 1946 there was a prison camp for thousands of German civilians in the area.

The Polish military used the training area from 1946 to 2000. Since 2002 the area is a place of the national memory.

See also