Breisach train station um 1945
My name is Elaine Wolff and I live in New York.
The small town of Breisach has an impressive train station. It was built with volcanic rock, Kaiserstuhl basalt. The Freiburg - Breisach - Colmar line with its railway bridge had been there since 1878. It was part of the European East-West connection. The train station wasn't built until 30 years later, in 1914. During the First World War, the station was an important place for hundreds of thousands of soldiers who were either going west, towards the Vosges Front, or east, back home.
After the war, Alsace once again belonged to France. Breisach’s train station became a border station in a border town. The passport and customs control for travellers to and from Alsace took place here.
After the railway bridge was destroyed during the Second World War, a makeshift bridge was hastily constructed in the summer of 1940. In October 1940, more than 5600 men, women and children, the Jews of Baden, were deported along this route to the Gurs internment camp in southern France. Among them were also 112 citizens from Breisach. Of those 31 survived the camps in southern France.
I grew up with my family's grief over this tragedy.
Ort | Breisach am Rhein |
Autor | Blaues Haus |
Kategorien | Stadtbild Tourismus Erinnern |
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Lizenz | Unbeschränktes Nutzungsrecht (Public Domain) |
Bildquelle | Stadtarchiv Breisach am Rhein |
Urheber | unbekannt |
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Lizenz Vergleichsbild | Alle Rechte vorbehalten |
Bildquelle Vergleichsbild | Blaues Haus Breisach |
Zugeordnete Touren | Jüdisches Leben in Breisach JEWISH LIFE IN BREISACH |