Sowjetischer Kriegsgefangenenfriedhof Hörsten

Sowjetischer Kriegsgefangenenfriedhof Hörsten is a cemetery in Lower Saxony, Germany. Sowjetischer Kriegsgefangenenfriedhof Hörsten is situated nearby to the shooting range SB 4B, as well as near the ruins Baracke.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Bergen-Belsen Memorial and Schloss Bredebeck.

Bergen-Belsen Memorial

Museum

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Bergen-Belsen Memorial is a museum, which is situated 1¼ km east of Sowjetischer Kriegsgefangenenfriedhof Hörsten.

Schloss Bredebeck

Castle

Photo: Hajotthu, CC BY 3.0.

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 2½ km north of Sowjetischer Kriegsgefangenenfriedhof Hörsten.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bergen-Belsen Memorial and Walle.

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.

Walle

Village

Walle is a village and Ortschaft of the municipality of Winsen in Celle district, Lower Saxony, on the Lüneburg Heath in Germany. Walle is situated 3½ km southeast of Sowjetischer Kriegsgefangenenfriedhof Hörsten.

Belsen

Village

Photo: Losch, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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. Belsen is situated 4 km northeast of Sowjetischer Kriegsgefangenenfriedhof Hörsten.

Sowjetischer Kriegsgefangenenfriedhof Hörsten

Type: Cemetery
Denomination: Orthodox
Category: burial
Location: Lower Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude

52.76324° or 52° 45′ 48″ north

Longitude

9.89507° or 9° 53′ 42″ east

Open location code

9F4FQV7W+72

OpenStreetMap ID

way 27291706

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=cemetery

OpenStreetMap attribute

denomination=orthodox

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