Anna-Berta-Königsegg-Straße

The approximately 50-meter-long Anna-Bertha-Königsegg Street in the Salzburg district of Gnigl has reminded people since 1988 of the Visitator of the Barmherzigen Schwestern in Salzburg, who fought for the survival of her impaired charges. Born on May 9, 1883, Königsegg received religious education at an early age. After several stays in France and Italy, she followed the call to act as a Visitator in Salzburg on October 25, 1925. Shortly after the “Anschluss,” she opposed the NS regime by forbidding the staff of the nursing school she had established from assisting with the forced sterilizations demanded by the National Socialists. For her engagement, she was arrested in 1940 and again in 1941; she refused to obey orders that would have meant the certain death of mentally and physically impaired people. In total, under the leadership of Anna Bertha Königsegg, the Vincentian nuns managed to hide 17 people with impairments, who survived the NS era. In 1941, she was finally expelled from Salzburg; she returned to her birthplace and saw Salzburg again only after the end of World War II. Anna Bertha Königsegg died on December 12, 1948.