Bretstein
Bretstein | |
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 Coat of arms | |
  Bretstein Location within Austria | |
| Coordinates: 47°20′00″N 14°25′00″E / 47.33333°N 14.41667°E | |
| Country | Austria |
| State | Styria |
| District | Murtal |
| Area | |
• Total | 91.31 km2 (35.25 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,036 m (3,399 ft) |
| Population (1 January 2016)[1] | |
• Total | 302 |
| • Density | 3.31/km2 (8.57/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 8763 |
| Area code | 0 35 76 |
| Vehicle registration | JU |
| Website | www.bretstein.at |
Bretstein is a former municipality in the district of Murtal in the state of Styria in central Austria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Pölstal.[2]
History
[edit]During World War II, Nazi Germany operated the Bretstein concentration camp, a subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp, in Bretstein, whose prisoners were Spanish Republicans and German Jehovah's Witnesses.[3] Five Spaniards were murdered after an unsuccessful escape attempt.[3]
Geography
[edit]Bretstein lies in the Niedere Tauern.
References
[edit]- ↑ Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahresbeginn 2002-2016 nach Gemeinden (Gebietsstand 1.1.2016) for Bretstein.
- ↑ Die neue Gemeindestruktur der Steiermark
- 1 2 Megargee, Geoffrey P. (2009). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Vol. I. Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. p. 910. ISBN 978-0-253-35328-3.
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