Sankt Georgen an der Gusen
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  Sankt Georgen an der Gusen Location within Austria | ||
Coordinates: 48°16′18″N 14°26′54″E / 48.27167°N 14.44833°E / 48.27167; 14.44833Coordinates: 48°16′18″N 14°26′54″E / 48.27167°N 14.44833°E / 48.27167; 14.44833 | ||
| Country | Austria | |
| State | Upper Austria | |
| District | Perg | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Erich Wahl (SPÖ) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 7.09 km2 (2.74 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 262 m (860 ft) | |
| Population (14 June 2016)[1] | ||
| • Total | 3,916 | |
| • Density | 550/km2 (1,400/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) | |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) | |
| Postal codes | 4222, 4223 | |
| Area code | 07237 | |
| Vehicle registration | PE | |
| Website | www.st-georgen-gusen.at | |
Sankt Georgen an der Gusen (also St. Georgen an der Gusen and St. Georgen/Gusen; lit.: "Saint George's Town on the Gusen River") is a small market town in Upper Austria, Austria, between the municipalities of Luftenberg and Langenstein. As of 2015[update], the town had 3,779 inhabitants.
History
During World War II the town was selected to be the DEST-business administration center for exploiting slave labour in the quarries and later the industries of the Gusen concentration camp, a subcamp of the nearby Mauthausen concentration camp. In early 1944 the town became the site of "Gusen II", the most brutal sub-camp of Mauthausen. In roughly 40.000 m² of tunnels and caverns dug beneath St. Georgen for the Messerschmitt company a huge and most modern underground assembly plant for Messerschmitt Me 262 fuselages was operated until May 1945 under the code-name B8 Bergkristall - Esche II.[2] In some trials of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal the relatively unknown term St. Georgen granite works was used to prevent the use of locations like Mauthausen or Gusen.
Population
| Historical population | ||
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| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1869 | 1,089 | — |
| 1880 | 1,128 | +3.6% |
| 1890 | 1,129 | +0.1% |
| 1900 | 1,326 | +17.4% |
| 1910 | 1,434 | +8.1% |
| 1923 | 1,324 | −7.7% |
| 1934 | 1,396 | +5.4% |
| 1939 | 1,429 | +2.4% |
| 1951 | 1,795 | +25.6% |
| 1961 | 2,148 | +19.7% |
| 1971 | 2,805 | +30.6% |
| 1981 | 3,093 | +10.3% |
| 1991 | 3,236 | +4.6% |
| 2001 | 3,529 | +9.1% |
| 2010 | 3,619 | +2.6% |
| 2015 | 3,779 | +4.4% |
References
^ Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahresbeginn 2002-2016 nach Gemeinden, Erstellt am 14.06.2016 (Last accessed 13.12.2016) for Sankt Georgen an der Gusen.
^ Rudolf A. Haunschmied, Jan-Ruth Mills, Siegi Witzany-Durda: St. Georgen-Gusen-Mauthausen - Concentration Camp Mauthausen Reconsidered. BoD, Norderstedt 2008, .mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
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