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Digital bridge to the past: Mayor Christoph Böck, museum director Veronika Leikauf and head of the cultural department Jürgen Gnauert will present the “virtual learning location”.
Photo: Gerald Förtsch © Gerald Förtsch
The “flax roasting memorial site” is finished.
A virtual learning location at Lohhof train station makes the labor camp during the Nazi era visible.
Unterschleißheim
- Searching for clues at Lohhofer train station.
Between the parking lot, commercial space and office buildings, everything seems gray on gray in the wet and cold January weather.
A banner has recently been hanging on an old transformer building: “Virtual learning location” is written on it.
On the corner of Carl-von-Linde-Strasse and Johann-Kotschwara-Strasse it draws attention to the former “Flachsröste” labor camp, where women and men from the conquered areas were exploited during the Nazi era. A stele and a QR- Code leads those interested digitally to further information about what was probably the darkest time in Lohhof.
Long barracks
With this “virtual place of learning,” the city has now completed the three-part monument.
Where the flax roasting barracks once stood, the area is now heavily built over and is privately owned.
It cannot be entered.
Anyone interested can scan the QR code with their own smartphone and use an app to travel back in time to the years 1940 to 1945.
Visitors have online access to a reconstruction of the long labor camp.
You will learn about the inhumane conditions under which women and men had to live here: people deported from Belgium, Poland, France and the occupied territories of the Soviet Union processed flax straw into linseed fiber for the National Socialist war economy.
Linen was an important raw material for uniforms, backpacks, tents and ropes.
Visitors can access a lot of information
Visitors can click on behind the virtual reconstruction of the flax roasting: “There they can get information about the history, see historical photos in their context and learn more about the lives of those affected,” says historian Maximilian Strnad, who developed the concept together with artist Kirsten Zeitz created.
The three-part memorial site for Nazi forced labor in the flax roasting plant was officially opened in autumn.
In addition to the FOS/BOS, seven portrait steles at the Lohhof S-Bahn station remind us of the fate of those affected who arrived here and now have a face in Lohhof.
The 500 meter long path of remembrance leads to the “virtual learning location”.
Blue concrete flowers are embedded in it, and steel plates with the names of the forced laborers flank it.
“It's about attention, especially in this day and age,” says the director of the Unterschleissheim City Museum, Veronika Leikauf, who has taken over the management of the flax roasting memorial site.
In June, flax flowers will bloom blue at the monument.
With their delicate beauty, they express compassion for the people who have experienced great suffering here.
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Free guided tours
will take place on February 24th at 11 a.m. and March 11th at 4 p.m.
Meeting point in front of the FOS/BOS.