Niedersachswerfen

Niedersachswerfen is a railway stop in Harztor, Nordhausen, Thuringia. Niedersachswerfen is situated nearby to the suburb Krimderode, as well as near the village Woffleben.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial and Niedersachswerfen Ost station.

Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial

Museum

Mittelbau-Dora was a Nazi concentration camp located near Nordhausen in Thuringia, Germany. It was established in late summer 1943 as a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp, supplying slave labour from many Eastern countries occupied by Germany, for extending the nearby tunnels in the Kohnstein and for manufacturing the V-2 rocket and the V-1 flying bomb. Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial is situated 1¼ km southwest of Niedersachswerfen.

Niedersachswerfen Ost station

Railway station

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Niedersachswerfen Ost station is a railway station, which is situated 650 metres northeast of Niedersachswerfen.

Mittelwerk

Bunker

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Mittelwerk was a German World War II factory built underground in the Kohnstein to avoid Allied bombing. It used slave labor from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp to produce V-2 ballistic missiles, V-1 flying bombs, and other weapons. Mittelwerk is situated 1 km southwest of Niedersachswerfen.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Niedersachswerfen and Krimderode.

Niedersachswerfen

Village

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Niedersachswerfen is a village and a former municipality in the district of Nordhausen, in Thuringia, Germany. Since 1 January 2012, it is part of the municipality Harztor.