Industry | gunpowder |
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Headquarters | Moosbierbaum, Austria |
Parent | Škoda |
Moosbierbaum is part of the municipality (commune) of Atzenbrugg in the Lower Austria.
In 1913, the Škoda Wetzlar gunpowder factory was established in Moosbierbaum. As a target of the Oil Campaign of World War II, Moosbierbaum had a chemical works which performed 60,000 tons/year of Naphtha dehydrogenation,[1] and an adjacent refinery for the oil from Zistersdorf. Moosbierbaum also had a Nazi Germany forced labor subcamp of Mauthausen.
Contralto Hilde Rössel-Majdan was a native of Moosbierbaum.
Coordinates: 48°18′N 15°54′E / 48.300°N 15.900°E