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Christmas closing time 2024/25
Dear Madam, dear Sir, please note: The Memorial Site Hartheim Castle is closed from December 21, 2024 until January 6, 2025! The Team of the Memorial Site Hartheim CastleVideo of the 2024 commemoration and text of Nikolaus Habjan's speech are online
The speech at this year's memorial ceremony on October 1st in the Memorial Site Hartheim Castle was given by Nikolaus Habjan.October 1, 2024 - Commemoration service in the Hartheim Castle – Place of Learning and Remembrance
As every year, the commemoration service for the victims of Nazi euthanasia will take place on October 1st in Hartheim Castle – Place of Learning and Remembrance.
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".
