Hinterschellenberg
Geography
Hinterschellenberg is located in the town of Schellenberg, a few kilometres away from its downtown core.
Main sights
Hinterschellenberg contains the Catholic Chapel of St. George (German: Kapelle St. Georg).
It is home to Liechtenstein's Russian monument (German: Russen-Denkmal), erected in 1980. Translated into English, the inscription on the monument reads as follows:
Here in Hinterschellenberg, on the night of 2 May 1945, the asylum-seeking remainder of the "1st Russian National Army of the German Wehrmacht" under Major General A. Holmston-Smyslowsky, with about 500 fully equipped men, crossed the border of the Greater German Reich into Liechtenstein. The first negotiations took place in the "Wirtschaft zum Löwen" tavern, which led to the granting of asylum by the Principality of Liechtenstein. It was the only country which resisted the Soviet Union's extradition demands. After two and a half years, the Russians were free to leave for a country of their choice.
The monument is marked on a map given out by the Liechtenstein tourist information service, available free in Vaduz. The Wirtschaft zum Löwen Tavern is a small bar directly behind the monument. The Austrian border is about one hundred metres beyond the memorial stone.
Gallery
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The monument to Russian soldiers -
Chapel of St. George
References
- ^ 1567993939 Hinterschellenberg on OpenStreetMap
- ^ "Kapelle St. Georg". Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein (in German).
- ^ Geiger, Peter (2011). "Russische Nationalarmee". Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
- ^ "Historik". Wirthschaft zum Löwen. Archived from the original on 12 June 2015.
External links
Media related to Hinterschellenberg at Wikimedia Commons
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