Sankt Georgen an der Gusen
Sankt Georgen an der Gusen (also St. Georgen an der Gusen and St. Georgen/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 2015, the town had 3,779 inhabitants.
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Coordinates: 48°16′18″N 14°26′54″E | |
Country | Austria |
State | Upper Austria |
District | Perg |
Government | |
• Mayor | Erich Wahl (SPÖ) |
Area | |
• Total | 7.12 km2 (2.75 sq mi) |
Elevation | 262 m (860 ft) |
Population (2018-01-01)[2] | |
• Total | 4,119 |
• Density | 580/km2 (1,500/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Postal code | 4222, 4223 |
Area code | 07237 |
Vehicle registration | PE |
Website | www.st-georgen-gusen.at |
History
During World War II the town was selected to be the DEST-business administration center for exploiting slave labour in the quarries and later the industries of the Gusen concentration camp, a subcamp of the nearby Mauthausen concentration camp. In early 1944 the town became the site of "Gusen II", the most brutal sub-camp of Mauthausen. 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.[3] 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.
Population
Historical population | ||
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Year | Pop. | ±% |
1869 | 1,089 | — |
1880 | 1,128 | +3.6% |
1890 | 1,129 | +0.1% |
1900 | 1,326 | +17.4% |
1910 | 1,434 | +8.1% |
1923 | 1,324 | −7.7% |
1934 | 1,396 | +5.4% |
1939 | 1,429 | +2.4% |
1951 | 1,795 | +25.6% |
1961 | 2,148 | +19.7% |
1971 | 2,805 | +30.6% |
1981 | 3,093 | +10.3% |
1991 | 3,236 | +4.6% |
2001 | 3,529 | +9.1% |
2010 | 3,619 | +2.6% |
2015 | 3,779 | +4.4% |
References
- "Dauersiedlungsraum der Gemeinden Politischen Bezirke und Bundesländer - Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
- "Einwohnerzahl 1.1.2018 nach Gemeinden mit Status, Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
- 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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