Memorial Plate in Lorüns "Work as Struggle"

After the National Socialists declared the work to be part of the "Kampf an der Heimatfront" ("Struggle on the Home Front"), the cement works in Lorüns were classified as a "kriegswichtiger Betrieb" ("war-critical enterprise") during the course of the war. Ukrainian forced laborers as well as local workers had to achieve maximum performance under inhuman conditions. Many fell ill and had to reckon with harassment and persecution even after that. For example, Robert Roßkopf, born in 1905 in Carinthia and living in Ludesch, who worked in the cement works and became seriously ill in 1943. Unable to resume work, he was arrested by the Gestapo on charges of "work refusal" and interned for several months in the Arbeitserschulungslager (Work Education Camp) Reichenau in Innsbruck for "political reasons". The memorial plaque was erected in 2022 as part of the project "15 Orte – 15 Geschichten" ("15 Places – 15 Stories").