"Blood Road" / „Blutstraße"

"Blood Road" / „Blutstraße" (HM1GHG)

Location: Weimar, Thüringen 99427
Country: Germany
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N 51° 0.804', E 11° 15.357'

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Access to Buchenwald Concentration Camp was initially gained by way of a narrow forest road which had served traffic over Ettersberg Mountain for centuries. Its reconstruction as an eight-metre-wide concrete road began in the summer of 1938. The road construction firm Zindt in Gotha was in charge of the project planning and realization. As many as two hundred inmates worked under the company's supervision at a time. Hundreds of inmates - chiefly Jews - hauled stones for the subbase from nearby quarries. The construction of the access road, which cost many lives, was completed in November 1939. It already bore the epithet "Blood Road" by that time.
In 2004/2005, a 300-metre stretch of the original road was restored and a 1.9-kilometre stretch of the concrete road was resurfaced as a means of preservation.
Sponsored by the federal government, the State of Thuringia, the Erfurt Employment Agency and the City of Weimar. Re-opened in September 2005.
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Anfangs diente eine schmale Waldchaussee, die seit Jahrhunderten über den Ettersberg führte, als Zufartstraße zum Konzentrationslager Buchenwald. Ihr Ausbau zu einer acht Meter breiten Betonstraße begann im Sommer 1938. Bauplanung und -ausführung übernahm die Straßenbaufirma Zindt, Gotha. Bis zu 200 Häftlinge arbeiteten unter ihrer Leitung. Hunderte, vor allem jüdische Insassen des Lagers, schleppten aus den umliegenden Steinbrüchen die Steine für das Packlager heran. Der Bau der Zufahrtsstraße, der viele Opfer forderte, wurde im November 1939 abgeschlossen. Schon zu dieser Zeit trug sie den Beinamen „Blutstraße".
2004/2005 wurden 300 Meter der Originalstraße restauriert und die Betonstraße auf eine Länge von 1,9 Kilometern durch einen neuen Straßenbelag konserviert.
Getragen vom Bund, vom Land Thüringen, von der Agentur für Arbeit, Erfurt, und der Stadt Weimar. Übergeben im September 2005.
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HM NumberHM1GHG
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Placed ByBuchenwald Memorial Foundation
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Date Added Friday, September 26th, 2014 at 6:54pm PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)31N E 166021 N 0
Decimal Degrees51.01340000, 11.25595000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 51° 0.804', E 11° 15.357'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds51° 0' 48.2400" N, 11° 15' 21.4200" E
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Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling South
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 2 Buchenwald, Weimar Thüringen 99427, DE
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