Melk Concentration Camp

Melk concentration camp was a forced labor unit for men in the in Mauthausen, . Prisoners there were forced to construct an underground ball-bearing factory for the Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG company.
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  • Historical site
  • …lies at an elevation of 251 metres (823 feet)
  • Description: sub-camp of Mauthausen concentration camp (1944-1945)
  • Also known as
    “‘Quarz’”
    “Kommando ‘Quartz’”
    “KZ Melk”
    “Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Melk Subcamp”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Melk Abbey and Landesklinikum Melk.
Thomas Ledl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Benedictine abbey above the town… is situated 1½ km west of Melk Concentration Camp.
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is a hospital, which is situated 730 metres west of Melk Concentration Camp.
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is a wayside shrine, which is situated 440 metres west of Melk Concentration Camp.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Emmersdorf and Gerolding.
Karl Gruber, CC BY-SA 3.0 at.
an der Donau is a town in the district of Melk in the state of .
is a settlement in the municipality… is situated 6 km northeast of Melk Concentration Camp.
is a settlement in the municipality… is situated 6 km northeast of Melk Concentration Camp.

Melk Concentration Camp

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Latitude
48.22647° or 48° 13′ 35″ north
Longitude
15.34996° or 15° 20′ 60″ east
Open location code
8FWQ68GX+HX
Geo­Names ID
13713762
Wiki­data ID
Q1719398

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