Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial

Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial is a parking area in Nordhausen, Thuringia. Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial is situated nearby to the museum Informationszentrum, as well as near Muster ground (Roll-call square).

Type: Parking area
Also known as: “KZ-Gedenkstätte Mittelbau-Dora”
Parking: surface
Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial and Mittelwerk.

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 110 metres south of Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial.

Mittelwerk

Bunker

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.

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 370 metres north of Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial.

Salzaspring

Spring

Photo: Freak-Line-Community, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Salzaspring is situated 770 metres southeast of Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Niedersachswerfen and Herreden.

Niedersachswerfen

Village

Photo: Aschroet, CC0.

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.