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 / 47.33333; 14.41667 | |
| 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
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
Bretstein lies in the Niedere Tauern.
References
References
- Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahresbeginn 2002-2016 nach Gemeinden (Gebietsstand 1.1.2016) for Bretstein.
- Die neue Gemeindestruktur der Steiermark
- 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.