Belsen
Belsen is a village within the German borough of Bergen in the northern part of Celle district on the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony. The village, whose original site lies about 3 kilometres southwest of Bergen, has 331 inhabitants.Photo: flamenc, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Losch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Schloss Bredebeck and St. Lambert’s Church, Bergen.
Schloss Bredebeck
Castle
Schloss Bredebeck was built in 1901/1902 by a farmer, Herr Hellberg. It is actually a manor house in terms of its size and function. The house is located in woodland in the German state of Lower Saxony between the former villages of Hörsten and Hohne, which disappeared in the 1930s in the wake of the establishment of Bergen-Hohne Training Area. Schloss Bredebeck is situated 3 km west of Belsen.
St. Lambert’s Church, Bergen
Church
St. Lambert's Church is the Lutheran town church in the town of Bergen in Celle district in Germany. This Classicist aisleless church was built in 1826. St. Lambert’s Church, Bergen is situated 3 km northeast of Belsen.
Bergen-Belsen Memorial
Museum
Photo: Hajotthu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bergen-Belsen Memorial is a museum, which is situated 3½ km southwest of Belsen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bergen-Belsen Memorial and Offen.
Bergen-Belsen Memorial
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Bergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943, parts of it became a concentration camp. Bergen-Belsen Memorial is situated 3½ km southwest of Belsen.
Offen
Village
Offen is a village administered by the Lower Saxon town of Bergen in the northern part of Celle district on the Lüneburg Heath in North Germany. Offen is situated 3½ km southeast of Belsen.
Bleckmar
Village
Photo: Hajotthu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bleckmar is a village administered by the Lower Saxon town of Bergen in the northern part of Celle district on the Lüneburg Heath in North Germany. It lies about 3 kilometres north of Bergen on the B 3 federal road and has 464 inhabitants. Bleckmar is situated 5 km north of Belsen.
Belsen
- Type: Village with 331 residents
- Description: human settlement in Germany
- Categories: Ortschaft and locality
- Location: Bergen, Celle, Lüneburg Heath, Lower Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
52.78624° or 52° 47′ 11″ northLongitude
9.93621° or 9° 56′ 10″ eastPopulation
331Elevation
63 metres (207 feet)Open location code
9F4FQWPP+FFOpenStreetMap ID
node 549911511OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2951158Wikidata ID
Q816178
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