Strasshof an der Nordbahn

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Strasshof an der Nordbahn
Coat of arms	Location

Administration
Country	Austria
State	Lower Austria
District	Gänserndorf
Mayor	Herbert Farthofer (SPÖ)
Basic statistics
Area	11.63 km² (4.5 sq mi)
Elevation	165 m (541 ft)
Population	7,777 (31/12/2005)
- Density	669 /km² (1,732 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	GF
Postal code	2231
Area code	02287
Website	www.strasshofandernordbahn.at Coordinates: 48°19′10″N 16°38′51″E / 48.31944, 16.6475

Strasshof an der Nordbahn is a suburban town 25 km east of Vienna, Austria. The town developed rapidly, it had about 50 inhabitants in 1900. Most of those working commute out of town.

Strasshof was built as a garden city around a railroad yard that was functioning between 1908 and 1959[1]. The main attraction is the railroad museum Das Heizhaus. An historical locomotive built by LOFAG is displayed in the town.

Strasshof was the site of a concentration camp where 21,000 Hungarian Jews were deported in 1944. Most of these Jews, including children and the elderly, survived due to an agreement between the Aid and Rescue Committee of Budapest and Adolf Eichmann. [2].

On August 23, 2006, Strasshof got a great deal of media attention when Natascha Kampusch, a kidnapped teenager escaped from her captors house in Strasshof. She had been kept imprisoned nearly eight and a half long years in a cellar in the single family home. The presumed kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil committed suicide on the evening of the same day.