Industry gunpowder Parent Škoda | Headquarters Moosbierbaum, Austria | |
Moosbierbaum is part of the municipality (commune) of Atzenbrugg in the Lower Austria.
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Map of 3452 Moosbierbaum, Austria
History
In 1913, the Škoda Wetzlar gunpowder factory was established in Moosbierbaum. As a target of the Oil Campaign of World War II, Moosbierbaum had a chemical works which performed 60,000 tons/year of Naphtha dehydrogenation,[1] and an adjacent refinery for the oil from Zistersdorf. Moosbierbaum also had a Nazi Germany forced labor subcamp of Mauthausen.
Contralto Hilde Rössel-Majdan was a native of Moosbierbaum.
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Moosbierbaum Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA