Strasshof an der Nordbahn (meaning ''Strasshof at the Northern railway''; Central Bavarian: ''Strasshof aun da Noadbauh'') is a satellite town 25 km east of

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. A historical

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built by

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is displayed in the town.

Geography

Strasshof an der Nordbahn lies in Marchfeld in Lower Austria. About 21.08 percent of the municipality is forested.

History

Strasshof had about 50 inhabitants in 1900, and a

railroad yard A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives. Yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock or u ...

functioned from 1908 to 1959. In 1944, about 75 percent of 21,000 Hungarian Jews deported from a concentration camp at Strasshof survived due to an agreement between the

Aid and Rescue Committee The Aid and Rescue Committee, or ''Va'adat Ha-Ezrah ve-ha-Hatzalah be-Budapesht'' (''Vaada'' for short; name in ) was a small committee of Zionists in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944–1945, who helped Hungarian Jews escape the Holocaust during the Ger ...

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and

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United States Army Air Forces bombing by the

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. There was solid overcast over the city causing the wing to bomb Wien Florisdorf Shell Refinery as an alternative. The west marshalling yard was bombed on 26 March 1945 by the 49th BW between 1224 ~ 1236 hrs; Strings across western half of yard and choke point, several large fires noted among goods wagons. After the end of the

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, much of Austria was occupied temporarily by the

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. The

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of the

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, operated from Strasshof from 1952 to 1955, before being moved to Bereza in the Belorussian Military District. On 23 August 2006, kidnapped teenager Natascha Kampusch escaped after nearly 8½ years imprisonment in a cellar of a Strasshof house. The presumed kidnapper

Wolfgang Priklopil Natascha Maria Kampusch (born 17 February 1988) is an Austrian author and former talk show host. At the age of 10, on 2 March 1998, she was Child abduction, abducted and held in a secret cellar by her kidnapper Wolfgang Přiklopil for more than ...

committed suicide on the evening of the same day.

Population

References

External links

Municipal website
Cities and towns in Gänserndorf District Holocaust locations in Austria {{LowerAustria-geo-stub