DP-Kibbutz Maßbach 1946-1947

In 1946/1947, a camp for around 100 Jewish survivors (displaced persons) was set up in Maßbach Castle - where a Nazi teachers' association training camp had been located during the Nazi era. Kibbutz Lanegew" (engl. 'Auf in den Negev'), the Jewish camp residents were taught basic agricultural skills in preparation for their emigration to Palestine.

After the end of the Second World War, the US Army first set up a site for the American military government in the castle on Schalksberg, which had served as a training center for the Nazi Teachers' Association during the Nazi era, and then, from October 1946, an agricultural school for Jewish refugees (displaced persons). At the end of 1946, 70 people were living on this training kibbutz. In addition to work, they played chess and table tennis. In May 1947, there were 95 Jewish men, women and children who were preparing for their emigration to Palestine in training courses and presumably left in 1947. By May 1948, when the state of Israel was founded, the kibbutz no longer existed.