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Change in Payment Terms for Educational Programs
Starting with the 2026/27 school year, revised payment terms for educational programs will apply at the Hartheim Castle Learning and Memorial Center.New: CCTV camera in the entrance area
Dear visitors,
Hartheim Castle, a place of learning and remembrance, is a space for reflection, learning and respectful coexistence. To ensure the safety of our visitors…
8th of May 2026 - Spital am Pyhrn - Book presentation and memorial service "Foreign Children's Homes"
On May 8th, a memorial service will be held in Spital am Pyhrn to commemorate the victims of the "foreign children's home" in Spital am Pyhrn, and the new anthology on…
Memorial Site Hartheim Castle - Place for Learning and Remembrance
Hartheim Castle is located around 18 km west of Linz. The village of Hartheim belongs to the municipality of Alkoven in the Eferding district.
From 1940 - 1944 Hartheim Castle was one of six killing institutions of National Socialist euthanasia. During this time, around 30.000 people with disabilities and mental diseases, some residents of psychiatric institutions and care homes, others imprisoned in Mauthausen, Gusen, Ravensbrück and Dachau concentration camps and deemed unfit to work and forced labourers were brought here and murdered. The rooms in which the crimes took place now form part of the Memorial. There is also a cemetery on the east side of the palace, where the remains of those who were murdered were buried in 2002.
Memorial Site Hartheim Castle - Place for Learning and Remembrance, which was opened in 2003, includes, the Memorial and the Exhibition "Value of Life".
