Carl-Lampert Memorial Site Church Göfis

Carl Lampert, born in 1894 in Göfis, was the highest-ranking representative of the Catholic Church who was imprisoned, tortured, and ultimately executed by the National Socialists. Shortly after Austria's "Anschluss" in March 1938, Carl Lampert came increasingly into conflict with the ruling regime because of his statements. After being imprisoned in the concentration camps Dachau and Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, Lampert was "gauverwiesen" in 1941 and banished to Stettin. Accused of espionage, he was beheaded on November 13, 1944, in Halle an der Saale. Until the new church was built, the urn was kept in the parish office and displayed before the altar during the service on the anniversary of his death. The memorial site with the urn was inaugurated on March 8, 1975.