Memorial plaque for "Euthanasia" victims in Langenegg

Between 1938 and 1941, more than 700 patients at the institution "Valduna" in Rankweil were psychiatrically treated. Of these, 57 were born in a municipality of the Bregenzerwald region. Most of them were murdered in the Nazi killing institution Hartheim or died in other so-called "Heil- und Pflegeanstalten" ("Healing and Care Institutions"). In 2009, several municipalities in the Bregenzerwald region decided to commemorate the victims of "euthanasia," and memorial signs were erected in many places. In Langenegg, a stone plaque as part of a collective memorial site for all Nazi victims and victims of both world wars in the cemetery commemorates four "euthanasia" victims from the municipality: Theresa Höfle, Anna Maria Nussbaumer, Klara Maria Nussbaumer, and Anton Wagner.