Memorial plaque for the camp Lexenfeld (Lieferinger Cultural Hiking Trail)

The 2005 installed and 2019 renewed memorial plaque at today's Herz-Jesu-Gymnasium commemorates the so-called Lager Lexenfeld, which was located on the grounds of the Herz-Jesu-Missionaries. These missionaries had run a school there since 1888. The Nazi regime halted operations in 1938 with the intention of using the buildings as a "National Socialist Education Institution," where the future Nazi elite was to be trained. This did not happen; the complex was used as a barracks, and by 1943, 17 huts had been built. After liberation in May 1945, the U.S. authorities used these huts as a refugee camp. Numerous Displaced Persons (DPs) from Ukraine and Poland, Danube Swabians and Swabian women, as well as "ethnic Germans" from Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Romania found temporary shelter here. Starting in 1953, the city of Salzburg managed the camp, where it established an outpatient clinic and a kindergarten for refugees. In 1964, the facility was returned to the Herz-Jesu-Missionaries.