Urn cemetery at Tabor

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View from the cemetery entrance on Taborweg to the crematorium

The urn cemetery at Tabor is located in the Tabor district of the city of Steyr in Upper Austria . The crematorium with the urn cemetery and a small residential building, founded in 1926/1927 with the “Flamme” association, owned by the city of Steyr since 1939, are under monument protection . The crematorium was used for the cremation of prisoners and slave laborers from the Mauthausen concentration camp and its sub-camps during the National Socialist period until 1941 .

General

The urn cemetery located in the district Tabor (Taborweg 8) close to the installation of the Renaissance Tabor cemetery and Tabor tower . The Steyr crematorium planned by Franz Koppelhuber is located here . The urn cemetery is under the authority of the Steyr magistrate , while the neighboring Tabor cemetery is under the control of the city parish Steyr and the suburban parish St. Michael.

history

In the 1920s there were calls for a cremation facility . Since the Roman Catholic Church strictly rejected this, the local council assigned the “Flamme” association on July 11, 1926, a plot of land for an urn grove adjacent to the Tabor cemetery . This association had a crematorium built there in 1926/27 according to plans by the Steyr architect Franz Koppelhuber, which opened as the historically second crematorium in Austria on June 26, 1927 after the Simmering fire hall in Vienna. At the end of 1939, the city of Steyr acquired the urn cemetery for 115,000 Reichsmarks . In 1941 there were plans to move the cemetery out of the city for reasons of hygiene.

Memorial plaque on the Nazi memorial in the urn cemetery
The urn location of the concentration camp inmates in a connecting path next to the remains of a cemetery wall

During the Second World War under National Socialism, the crematorium was used to cremate concentration camp prisoners from the Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps . In 1948, more than 1,000 urns were probably sunk at the end of a connecting path in front of a former enclosure wall. After that, the urn cemetery at Tabor was probably expanded, and part of a cemetery wall was removed, the connecting route extended, and the urn grave of the concentration camp inmates was paved over asphalt. On the initiative of a grandson of Wiktor Ormicki , a search was made for the location of the urns and in 2011 a place with urns was found again. This urn location is now marked with a three-part granite manhole cover.

People buried here

  • Grave of Josef Ahrer

  • Grave of Johann Weiss

  • Grave of August "Gustav" Hilber

  • Grave of Dora Dunkl

  • Richard Romanowsky grave

  • Grave of director Josef Holub

  • Grave of Mayor Wokral

  • Grave of Mayor Sichlrader

  • Mayor Fellinger's grave

  • Grave of Mayor Steinbrecher

Views of the plant

Cemetery entrances

  • Entrance Taborweg with the guard's house

  • Entrance Taborweg inside

  • View from the crematorium to the Taborweg entrance

  • Industriestrasse entrance

crematorium

  • Main front of the crematorium with a pointed arch portal

  • Farewell hall of the crematorium

  • Administration building of the crematorium

  • Inside of the farewell hall

Urn cemetery

  • Urn cemetery

  • Urn cemetery

  • Urn cemetery

  • Urn cemetery

Memorials

  • Memorial plaque for the association "Die Flamme"

  • Memorial plaque for February and Spain fighters

  • Memorial of the city of Steyr for the victims of National Socialism

  • Memorial of the People's Republic of Poland

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A journey to remember  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. perspective mauthausen, 2014@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.perspektiven-mauthausen.at  
  2. ↑ Steyr Online - Friedhof (accessed on January 26, 2013)
  3. ↑ Manfred Brandl: Neue Geschichte von Steyr , Ennsthaler 1980, ISBN 3-85068-093-2 , p. 71 u. 230
  4. ^ Crypt with urns discovered by concentration camp prisoners Bezirksrundschau, Sabine Thöne, February 2, 2012
  5. ↑ Hannes Fehringer: Urns from Nazi victims were stored in the cemetery under a sidewalk (OÖN article from January 26, 2012), accessed on January 26, 2013
  6. ↑ 1000 Black Balloons Upper Austrian News , Kurt Daucher, July 21, 2015
  7. ↑ Buried Stories. Summer workshop 2015. Film, youtube 2:15 min, Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr , a project in cooperation with IGS Roderbruch, MKÖ Steyr, the young Greens, the Catholic youth and the Protestant youth. July 16, 2015
  8. ↑ Many urns in the concentration camp crypt are damaged Interview with Vice Mayor Wilhelm Hauser, Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, July 29, 2015
  9. ↑ "A bullet hit him in the stomach from behind" , OÖN, accessed on November 26, 2018
  10. ↑ Hermann Leithenmayr: 1000 mourners said goodbye to the lobbyist of the common people. (Accessed January 26, 2013)

See also

Web links

Commons : Urnenfriedhof am Tabor  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 41.5 ″  N , 14 ° 25 ′ 22.9 ″  E