Niedersachswerfen Herkulesmarkt

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

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 Herkulesmarkt.

Niedersachswerfen Ost station

Railway station

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Niedersachswerfen Ost station is a railway station, which is situated 1 km north of Niedersachswerfen Herkulesmarkt.

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 1¼ km west of Niedersachswerfen Herkulesmarkt.

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.