Moosbierbaum

Moosbierbaum is part of the municipality (commune) of Atzenbrugg in the Lower Austria.

Wetzlar
Industrygunpowder
HeadquartersMoosbierbaum, Austria
ParentŠkoda

History

In 1913, the Škoda Wetzlar gunpowder factory was established in Moosbierbaum as a subsitiary of IG Farben AG. As a target of the Oil Campaign of World War II, Moosbierbaum had a chemical works which performed 60,000 tons/year of Naphtha dehydrogenation, and an adjacent refinery for the oil from Zistersdorf.

The only surviving structure of the chemical plant is the administration building, which now serves as a hotel and restaurant for the adjacent golf-course.

Singer contralto Hilde Rössel-Majdan was a native of Moosbierbaum.



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