Sankt Georgen is a municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung in the state of Salzburg

Salzburg (state)

Salzburg is a state or Land of Austria with an area of 7,156 km2, located adjacent to the German border. It is also known as Salzburgerland, to distinguish it from its capital city, also named Salzburg...

 in Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

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On July 19, 1997 the artist Gunter Demnig installed two Stolpersteine for Johann Nobis

Johann Nobis

Johann Nobis was an Austrian conscientious objector.-Life:...

 and his brother Matthias Nobis in front of their birth house in Holzhausen at the invitation of Andreas Maislinger

Andreas Maislinger

Andreas Maislinger is an Austrian historian and founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service and Braunau Contemporary History Days.- Studying and learning :...

. Gunter Demnig was a guest of the Arts Initiative KNIE

Arts Initiative KNIE

Arts Initiative KNIE was founded as an initiative for contemporary art in 1995 in Oberndorf bei Salzburg. It is the origin of the stolperstein project in Braunau am Inn District....

 in Oberndorf bei Salzburg

Oberndorf bei Salzburg

Oberndorf bei Salzburg is a town in the Austrian state of Salzburg, about 17 km north of the City of Salzburg. It is situated on the river Salzach in the Flachgau district.-Overview:Its twin sister-town across the Salzach Bridge is Laufen in Bavaria...

. Up to now he set up over 20000 Stolpersteine for victims of the National Socialist regime. In the nearby Sankt Radegund

Sankt Radegund

Sankt Radegund is a municipality in the district of Braunau am Inn in the Austrian state of Upper Austria, named after Saint Radegund. It is situated at the western rim of the Innviertel region, where the Salzach river forms the border to the German state of Bavaria.Originally a part of the stem...

 a Stolperstein for the beatiefied Franz Jägerstätter

Franz Jägerstätter

Blessed Franz Jägerstätter, O.F.S., was an Austrian conscientious objector during World War II. Jägerstätter was sentenced to death and executed...

 was set up in 2006.

Notable people

Andreas Maislinger

Andreas Maislinger

Andreas Maislinger is an Austrian historian and founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service and Braunau Contemporary History Days.- Studying and learning :...

, Founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service

Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service

The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service is an alternative to Austria's compulsory national military service / alternative service founded in 1992. Since 1998 it is part of the Austrian Service Abroad...

, born in St. Georgen on February 26, 1955.