IN SITU – History Goes to Town: National Socialism in Linz
Press Information
5 March 2009
The IN SITU project has already gotten started temporarily marking a total of 65 locations within the Linz city limits. Large-format stencils are being used to spray-paint a brief text on site—IN SITU—that makes reference to what happened at that place during the Nazi era.
This initiative does not focus exclusively on well-known locations amidst the topography of terror in Linz such as Gestapo headquarters on LanggasseBethlehemstraße. We are also pointing out buildings and public squares to which scant attention has been paid heretofore and that give little indication of being anything out of the ordinary. We indicate their historical significance as places where National Socialist despotism was implemented in real life.
21 of 65 sites—beginning on the outskirts of town—have already been marked and, depending on the weather, will be supplemented over the coming weeks.
Detailed and comprehensive bilingual information, historical and contemporary photographs as well as original documents:
City map: available in the Linz 09 Infocenter free of charge beginning in late March
Book: IN SITU. Zeitgeschichte findet Stadt: Nationalsozialismus in Linz: available in bookstores in early April
Website: online beginning March 11 at www.insitu-linz09.at
Sites already marked:
• Wiener Straße 545-549, Ebelsberg
• Dauphinestraße 11
• Siemensstraße / Daimlerstraße
• Ramsauerstraße / Uhlandstraße
• Spallerhof housing project on Glimpfingerstraße
• Wiener Straße 150
• Wagner Jauregg Hospital on Hanuschstraße
• Robert-Stolz-Straße 12
• Stockbauernstraße 11
• “Aphrodite Temple” Auf der Gugl
• Märzenkeller Bockgasse
• Wurmstraße 11
• Wurmstraße 7
• Rudolfstraße 18
• Rudolfstraße 6-8
• Hauptstraße 16
• Unionkreuzung bus stop
• Katzenau/ now on the grounds of Chemie Linz AG/ near the bus stop
• Krankenhausstraße 9 / Linz General Hospital
• Kaplanhofstraße 40
• Untere Donaulände 74, tobacco factory
