Sankt Georgen an der Gusen (also St. Georgen an der Gusen, lit.: Saint George's Town on the Gusen River) is a small market town in Upper Austria, Austria, between the municipalities of Luftenberg and Langenstein. As of 2015[update], the town had 3,779 inhabitants.
History
During World War II the town was selected to be the DEST-business administration center for exploiting the slave labour in the quarries and later the industries of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system. In early 1944 the town became the site of Gusen 2 - the most brutal sub-camp of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp system. In roughly 40.000 m² of tunnels and caverns dug beneath St. Georgen for the Messerschmitt company a huge and most modern underground assembly plant for Messerschmitt Me 262 fuselages was operated until May 1945 under the code-name B8 Bergkristall - Esche II.[2] In some trials of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal the relatively unknown term St. Georgen granite works was used to prevent the use of locations like Mauthausen or Gusen.
Population
Historical population |
Year |
Pop. |
±% |
1869 |
1,089 |
— |
1880 |
1,128 |
+3.6% |
1890 |
1,129 |
+0.1% |
1900 |
1,326 |
+17.4% |
1910 |
1,434 |
+8.1% |
1923 |
1,324 |
−7.7% |
1934 |
1,396 |
+5.4% |
1939 |
1,429 |
+2.4% |
1951 |
1,795 |
+25.6% |
1961 |
2,148 |
+19.7% |
1971 |
2,805 |
+30.6% |
1981 |
3,093 |
+10.3% |
1991 |
3,236 |
+4.6% |
2001 |
3,529 |
+9.1% |
2010 |
3,619 |
+2.6% |
2015 |
3,779 |
+4.4% |
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Municipalities in the district of Perg
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