Osterheide
Osterheide is an unincorporated area in the district of Heidekreis, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The 177.99 square kilometres area has 2,463 inhabitants. Its administrative seat is the village of Oerbke; other villages are Ostenholz and Wense.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Bergen-Hohne Training Area.
Bergen-Hohne Training Area
Shooting range
The Bergen-Hohne Training Area is a NATO military training area in the southern part of the Lüneburg Heath, in the state of Lower Saxony in northern Germany. Bergen-Hohne Training Area is situated 3½ km east of Osterheide.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hartem and Benhorn.
Hartem
Locality
Hartem was a village in the Heidmark, an area within the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony, Germany. In 1935/1936 Hartem disappeared from the map. The German armed forces, the Wehrmacht established a military training area. Its inhabitants were resettled.
Benhorn
Locality
Benhorn was a village in the old district of Fallingbostel, on the Heidmark in Lower Saxony in North Germany. It disappeared from the map in 1935/36, because the German Wehrmacht wanted to establish the Bergen-Hohne Training Area, today the largest military training area in Germany. Benhorn is situated 2½ km southwest of Osterheide.
Sieben Steinhäuser
Locality
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The Sieben Steinhäuser also Siebensteinhäuser is a group of five dolmens on the Lüneburg Heath in the NATO training area of Bergen-Hohne, in the state of Lower Saxony in northern Germany. Sieben Steinhäuser is situated 3 km southeast of Osterheide.
Osterheide
- Type: Forest
- Description: unincorporated area in Germany
- Category: unincorporated area in Germany
- Location: Lower Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Waray—“Osterheide” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Osterheide. Bezirk”
- Chinese: “Osterheide”
- Chinese: “奥斯特海德”
- Chinese: “奧斯特海德”
- Dutch: “Osterheide”
- Estonian: “Osterheide”
- French: “Osterheide”
- German: “Ostenholz”
- German: “Osterheide”
- Italian: “Osterheide”
- Ladin: “Osterheide”
- Macedonian: “Остерхајде”
- Malay: “Osterheide”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Osterheide”
- Persian: “اوشترهایده”
- Piemontese: “Osterheide”
- Polish: “Osterheide”
- Portuguese: “Osterheide”
- Romanian: “Osterheide”
- Russian: “Остерхайде”
- Swedish: “Osterheide”
- Ukrainian: “Остергайде”
- Waray (Philippines): “Osterheide”
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Notable Places Nearby
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