Memorial Plaque and Installation for Forced Laborers at the State Bridge

A memorial plaque and an installation on the Salzburg State Bridge commemorate the forced laborers who were involved in the construction of the bridge. Among the people forcibly conscripted for the construction were forced laborers and prisoners of war. Under inhumane conditions, the work reached its peak in June 1944; the bridge was officially completed, however, only in 1949. In the following decades, the forced laborers and laborers were excluded from collective memory. It was only after the renovation of the State Bridge in 2007 that a memorial plaque was installed, and in 2011, the project was expanded with an art initiative by the Salzburg Foundation. A glass cube was placed on the bases of the four bridgeheads. While one cube contains a slightly modified version of the inscription on the memorial plaque, the other cubes glow in neon colors with the words “beyond recall”, “envision” and “dedicated secret”.