Memorial plaque on memorial at Kreuzstadl Rechnitz

In the night of 24th to 25th March 1945, approximately 180 sick and physically weakened Hungarian-Jewish forced laborers were murdered and buried near the Kreuzstadl in Rechnitz. The proceedings against the perpetrators were discontinued due to the evidence situation. The search for the mass grave, in order to be able to bury the victims in a proper manner and according to Jewish ceremony, remained unsuccessful to date.

The efforts already begun in 1987 to turn the Kreuzstadl into a memorial were intensified from 1991 by the initiative RE.F.U.G.I.U.S. At the suggestion of the Burgenland sculptor Karl Prantl and the author Marietta Torberg, the ruin of Kreuzstadl could be preserved from further decay and the adjacent plot of land acquired through donations. On 14th November 1993, the Kreuzstadl memorial was handed over to the Federal Association of Israelite Communities and a memorial plaque was unveiled on the northern wall of the memorial.