Memorial Stone for Deceased Prisoners of War in the Maltatal

From the middle of the year 1940, transports of British and French prisoners of war arrived in the Maltatal, and from autumn 1941, Soviet prisoners of war. They were accommodated in the labor camp "Brandstatt," a district of the municipality of Malta. They had to perform forced labor in the stone quarry Koschach, two and a half kilometers away, for the granite gneiss extraction planned for the Reichsautobahn construction. 21 Soviet prisoners of war died in the process and were buried near the camp, close to the chapel Brandstatt. At the beginning of the 1950s, the Allied Commission placed a memorial stone with a red Soviet star next to the chapel in memory of the 21 Russian prisoners of war who died on site; their names are not known.