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Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial

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Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial

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Location: Mauthausen, Perg, Mühlviertel, Upper Austria, Austria

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1. Mauthausen Memorial – Parish Church of Ried loop from Katsdorf

25.1km

01:44

310m

Intermediate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Enns–Mauthausen Bicycle Ferry – Danube Cycle Path Near Linz loop from Freistadt

96.9km

06:07

1,070m

Expert bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Historic Center of Mauthausen – Mauthausen Memorial loop from Mauthausen

6.51km

00:26

100m

Easy bike ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Barbara & Andreas 🕊️

July 18, 2019

An important place to pause and consider where what crual atrocities people are able to do, if they "obey only the orders of the authorities" and be blinded by fear and theories of the theories of sin!

Even today, people are not protected from falling into such patterns again!

The Mauthausen concentration camp was the only pure death camp (camp with the sole aim of destroying people) on the territory of the "German Reich", the other three (Auschwitz + Birkenau concentration camp, Treblinka concentration camp, Lublin-Majdanek concentration camp) were all in occupied Poland.

There is a way of visiting especially helpful for cyclists. You do not drive up the hill in the Wiener Graben near the sign to the concentration camp, but continue a little further into it until you see the old quarry on the right. The first access to the quarry is closed with a grid. A few meters further on is a second access which leads to the small lake at the foot of the rock wall ("Drachenfliegerwand") and to the death stairs. Here you can leave your bike and walk up the death stairs. So you save yourself the very steep driveway to the concentration camp and reach first the part of the memorials, which may also be a meaningful access in the sense of commemoration. Once at the top you can go on to the documentation center and the few remaining buildings of the concentration camp.

"To all of you, I erect a monument in my house and in my walls, giving them a name worth more than sons and daughters: I give them an eternal name, which is never repaid." Prophet Isaiah 56: 5

DakenH

November 20, 2023

A thoughtful visit to the Mauthausen Memorial.

May 5th, the anniversary of the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp by the Allies, has been commemorated in Austria since 1998, following a unanimous resolution by the National Council, as a national day of remembrance against violence and racism in memory of the victims of National Socialism. On May 5th, 1945, the Mauthausen concentration camp in Upper Austria was liberated by the US Army.

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October 31, 2020

A sobering and important memorial. Even if you arrive on a day or after hours when the inside area is closed you can see the memorials and sculptures, tour around the perimeter and barbed wire fences to look inside, and also visit the execution and ash mounds behind the complex.

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Location: Mauthausen, Perg, Mühlviertel, Upper Austria, Austria

Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial

1. Mauthausen Memorial – Parish Church of Ried loop from Katsdorf

2. Enns–Mauthausen Bicycle Ferry – Danube Cycle Path Near Linz loop from Freistadt

3. Historic Center of Mauthausen – Mauthausen Memorial loop from Mauthausen

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