Zwangsarbeiterlager Neuaubing, Forced labor camp memorial in Aubing, Munich, Germany
The Zwangsarbeiterlager Neuaubing is a preserved forced-labor camp built by the Deutsche Reichsbahn at the western edge of Munich-Neuaubing, just west of the 1937–1939 Gößweinsteinplatz settlement. Eight of the original eleven single-storey barracks survive, mostly in brick with tiled roofs, grouped around a long rectangular roll-call square; two concrete Moll splinter shelters stand at their original spot.
The Reichsbahnneubauamt of the Reichsbahndirektion München drew up plans for the "Barackenlager RAW Neuaubing" in November 1942; the camp was finished in December 1942 and approved by the Regierungspräsidium in February 1943. Six accommodation barracks, each a double block of two rooms, were calculated for 624 people, but rooms were massively overcrowded with forced labourers from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Italy, the Netherlands and France, with a peak of about 1,000. After the war it served as a refugee shelter, then from the 1950s as housing for railway employees and a Deutsche Bundesbahn apprentice hostel.
The site's name comes from the Reichsbahn repair works it served, and the address Ehrenbürgstraße 9 is now owned by the City of Munich. Since the 2010s artists and craftspeople have grouped in the association "Freie Ateliers & Werkstätten Ehrenbürgstraße" and use most barracks as studios, workshops, offices and flats, while one former guard barrack houses a kindergarten.
The grounds at Ehrenbürgstraße 9 lie at the western edge of Neuaubing, just west of the 1937–1939 Gößweinsteinplatz estate and a few hundred metres north of the Pasing–Herrsching railway line. The site is heavily overgrown and uneven, with a low mound of rubble from a demolished barrack on the former roll-call square. A branch of the NS-Dokumentationszentrum München is planned for 2025.
The flat mound on the former roll-call square is made of rubble from the demolished north-western barrack. Two RL3-42/143 splinter shelters by the Leonhard Moll concrete works still stand in their original positions, though three of their four entrances are buried.
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