Sickert’sche Heide

Sickert’sche Heide is a forest in Nordhausen, Thuringia. Sickert’sche Heide is situated nearby to the locality Lange Wiesen, as well as near Hirschgraben.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial and Kohnstein.

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.

Kohnstein

Peak

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The Kohnstein is a hill in Thuringia, Germany, 2 kilometres southwest of the village of Niedersachswerfen and 3 kilometres northwest of the centre of the town of Nordhausen.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Niedersachswerfen and Werther.

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.