Memorial Stone for Deserters on the Property of the ÖGK Health Center

Until the year 2014, there was no memorial to the so-called "storm" at Goldegg. The aim of this raid on July 2, 1944, was the arrest of several Wehrmacht deserters from Goldegg, some of whom had gone underground the previous year. The two innocent Hochleitner brothers were murdered by the Gestapo, Peter Ottino died in a shootout with the SS, Karl Rupitsch, August Egger, and Kaspar Wind were hanged in October of the same year in the concentration camp Mauthausen, Georg Kößner was shot in March 1945 in Glanegg, and Richard Pfeiffenberger died in a penal company. Likewise, numerous family members and neighbors who had supported their children and friends were deported to concentration camps. Brigitte Höfert, the daughter of Karl Rupitsch, independently developed, together with the historian Michael Mooslechner and the sculptor Anton Thuswaldner from Kaprun, an appropriate concept for a memorial to the events of 1944. The simple memorial stone was to be placed in the courtyard of the Goldegg Castle. However, the community of Goldegg decided against the relocation. After six months of public disputes, Andreas Huss, the chairman of the Salzburg Regional Health Insurance Fund, then offered the grounds of the Regeneration Center as the site for the relocation of the memorial stone. On August 8, 2014, the memorial stone was finally relocated and today commemorates the victims of the "storm."