Project:
Non-destructinve prospection of the former Prisoners' Camp in the Hunsrück
Memorial place Hinzert
Location:
Close to Hermeskeil, Hunsrück, Federal Republic of Germany
Client:
State Office Rhineland-Palatinate, Real Estate and Construction Supervision Trier
Paulinstr. 58, 54292 Trier
Responsible: Federal State agency for civic education Rhineland-Palatinate
Target:
Investigation of the archaeological ground monument for the Documentation and
Meeting place within the former Prisoners' Camp „SS Sonderlager Hinzert“.
Operations and results:
High-resolution geomagntics were applied on an area of 4 hectare to achieve a non-destructive
prospection of any existing relicts of the former Prisoners' Camp.
The magnetogram shows an nearly complete building-overview as well as details concerning the
use of individual parts of the buildings in the Prisoners' Camp. The magnetic amplitudes produced
by the structures partly reach ±1000 nanoTesla/m.
Left: Camp sketch 1942.
Right: Results of the mapping / magnetogram.
The historial photos originate from following archives:
· Archive of the Conseil National de la Résitance Luxembourg
· Centre des Archives de l’Occupation Française en Allemagne et en Autriche, Colmar
· Federal State main archiv Rhineland-Palatinate Koblenz
· Marcel Engel, André Hohengarten: Hinzert. Das SS-Sonderlager im Hunsrück. Luxemburg 1983
· Volker Schneider, Archiv der „Projektgruppe Hinzert“ im Gymnasium Hermeskeil
By courtesy of the Federal State agency for civic education Rhineland-Palatinate
NS-Documentation Centre Rhineland-Palatinate
Memorial place KZ Osthofen
Ziegelhüttenweg 38
D - 67574 Osthofen
Website of the Association for the Promotion of the Documentation and Meeting place
former Concentration Camp KZ Hinzert e.V:
(http://www.hinzert.de/geschichte.htm)
