Memorial plaque for Anna Bertha Königsegg

As part of the Salzburg project "Frauenspuren," the city of Salzburg installed a total of 17 bronze plaques at various locations throughout the city in 1999. In 2021, an expansion followed; since then, 26 Salzburg women who played a significant role in the city's history are remembered. One of these commemorative plaques is dedicated to Sr. Anna Berta Königsegg. The Vinzentinian, who was trained as a nurse in Paris, established a nursing school in Salzburg. Holding an anti-Nazi stance, she opposed the plans of the Nazi regime to participate in forced sterilizations and wrote protest letters to the regional leadership; she noted that it was known that those deported from the mental institutions were killed. Furthermore, she recorded that the sisters would refuse to assist in the deportations. Even numerous imprisonments did not prevent her from resisting the authorities and their plans. Thanks to her efforts, she secured the survival of 17 people. Anna Berta Königsegg died on December 12, 1948. Today, in Salzburg, in addition to the commemorative plaque, a Stolperstein, a school, and a street also remember the resistance fighter; however, her work has increasingly been forgotten in public perception.