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Römhild Labor Education Camp Memorial

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Römhild Labor Education Camp Memorial

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Römhild Labor Education Camp Memorial

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    Location: Römhild, Hildburghausen, Thuringia, Germany

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    January 30, 2021

    On the Großer Gleichberg in southern Thuringia, a former volcano, the Römhilder quarry was located from 1901 to 1968, of which the ruins of the crusher are still standing.
    The Große Gleichberg is 679 meters above sea level. NN the higher of the two singular equal mountains east of Römhilds in the Grabfeld landscape in the Hildburghausen district in Thuringia.
    Basalt was mined in two quarries on the Großer Gleichberg, the Gleichamberger Steinbruch and the Römhilder Steinbruch.
    There was a cable car with which the basalt was transported in Loren to the basalt works in Römhild at the station and to Gleichamberg.
    The stones were used to build paved Chausseestrassen, then so-called artificial streets, and cobblestone streets, but also to build buildings.
    Basalt from the quarries of the Großer Gleichberg can still be found on cobblestone streets all over Germany today.
    During the time of National Socialism, from August 1943 to March 1945, there was a labor education camp in the Römhild quarry in which a maximum of about 400 "foreign nationals who were in breach of contract" were interned.
    The prisoners had to work in the basalt quarry or in the basalt works at Römhild Bahnhof.
    It must be assumed that at least 500 prisoners died in the camp or on the evacuation march in 1945.
    During the Cold War, from 1968 to 1991, there was a restricted military area on the summit of the Großer Gleichberg with a radio and radar station of the Soviet armed forces, who left their autographs in the crushing plant.
    In 1942, the Große Gleichberg was declared a nature reserve and is now a nature reserve.

    (Source: fotowiesel.de)

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      August 21, 2019

      Information board about the "work education camp" from 1943 to 1945

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        September 10, 2019

        The Gleichberge regardless of whether larger or smaller both worth a trip

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