Strasshof an der Nordbahn

Infobox Ort in Österreich
Art = Marktgemeinde
Name = Strasshof an der Nordbahn
Wappen =
Wappengröße =
lat_deg = 48 | lat_min = 19 | lat_sec = 10
lon_deg = 16 | lon_min = 38 | lon_sec = 51
Bundesland = Niederösterreich
Bezirk = Gänserndorf
Höhe = 165
Fläche = 11.63
Einwohner = 7777
Stand = 2005-12-31
PLZ = 2231
Vorwahl = 02287
Kfz = GF
Gemeindekennziffer = 3 08 56
NUTS = AT126
Straße = Bahnhofstraße 22
Website = [http://www.strasshofandernordbahn.at www.strasshofandernordbahn.at]
Bürgermeister = Herbert Farthofer
Partei = SPÖ
Gemeinderatanzahl = 29
Gemeinderat = 17 SPÖ, 4 Grüne, 3 ÖVP,
3 Dr.Ebhart, 1 FPÖ,
1 Bürgerforum
Wahljahr = 2005

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 [http://www.bahnforum.info/index.php?ind=reviews&op=entry_view&iden=247] . The main attraction is the railroad museum [http://www.eisenbahnmuseum-heizhaus.com "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. [http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/text/x31/xm3139.html] .

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.