Sankt Georgen an der Gusen
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| Country | Austria |
| State | Upper Austria |
| District | Perg |
| Mayor | Rudolf Honeder (SPÖ) |
| Area | 7 km2 (3 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 262 m (860 ft) |
| Population | 3,652 (1 January 2011)[1] |
| - Density | 522 /km2 (1,351 /sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | PE |
| Postal code | 4222 |
| Area code | 07237 |
| Website | www.st-georgen-gusen.at
Coordinates: 48°16′18″N 14°26′54″E / 48.27167°N 14.44833°E |
Sankt Georgen an der Gusen (lit. Saint George's Town on the Gusen River) is a small market town in Upper Austria, Austria, between the municipalities of Luftenberg and Langenstein. As of 2001[update], the town had 3,533 inhabitants.
During the World War II the town was selected to be the DEST-business administration center for exploiting the slave labour in the quarries and later the industries of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system. In early 1944 the town became the site of Gusen 2 - the most brutal sub-camp of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system. In roughly 40.000 m² of tunnels and caverns dug beneath St. Georgen for the Messerschmitt company a huge and most modern underground assembly plant for Messerschmitt Me 262 fuselages was operated until May 1945 under the code-name B8 Bergkristall - Esche II.[2] In some trials of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal the relatively unknown term St. Georgen granite works was used to prevent the use of locations like Mauthausen or Gusen.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahres- und Quartalsanfang, 2011-01-01.
- ^ Rudolf A. Haunschmied, Jan-Ruth Mills, Siegi Witzany-Durda: St. Georgen-Gusen-Mauthausen - Concentration Camp Mauthausen Reconsidered. BoD, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-7610-5
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