Feldkirchen bei Graz is a municipality in the district of

Graz-Umgebung Bezirk Graz-Umgebung is a district of the state of Styria in Austria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it consists of the following municipalities: * Deutschfeistritz * Dobl-Zwaring * Eggersdorf bei Graz * Feldkirchen bei G ...

in the

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

n state of

Styria Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered ...

History

It is the site of the

mass grave A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial. The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of execution, although an exact ...

of prisoners interned, tortured and killed by the

Austro-Hungarian Empire Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ...

at the nearby

Thalerhof internment camp Thalerhof (also transliterated as Talerhof from Cyrillic alphabet, Cyrillic-based East Slavic texts) was a concentration camp created by the Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian authorities active from 1914 to 1917, in a valley in foothills of the Alp ...

, now the site of the Graz Airport.

Population

References

Cities and towns in Graz-Umgebung District {{Styria-geo-stub