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Moosbierbaum

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Coordinates: 48°18′N 15°54′E / 48.300°N 15.900°E / 48.300; 15.900
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Wetzlar
Industrygunpowder
HeadquartersMoosbierbaum, Austria
ParentŠkoda

Moosbierbaum is part of the municipality (commune) of Atzenbrugg in the Lower Austria.

History

In 1913, the Škoda Wetzlar gunpowder factory was established in Moosbierbaum. As a target of the Oil Campaign of World War II, Moosbierbaum had a chemical works which performed 60,000 tons/year of Naphtha dehydrogenation,[1] and an adjacent refinery for the oil from Zistersdorf. Moosbierbaum also had a Nazi Germany forced labor subcamp of Mauthausen.

Singer contralto Hilde Rössel-Majdan was a native of Moosbierbaum.

48°18′N 15°54′E / 48.300°N 15.900°E / 48.300; 15.900



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