St. Johannis

St. Johannis is a church in Nordhausen, Thuringia which is located on Rosenberg. St. Johannis is situated nearby to the fire station Freiwillige Feuerwehr Herreden, as well as near the reservoir Sandfang.

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Type: Church
Denomination: Protestant
Description: church building in Nordhausen-Herreden, Germany
Also known as: “St. Johannis (Herreden)”
Address: Rosenberg, Herreden, Nordhausen, 99734

Places of Interest Nearby

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. Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial is situated 2 km northeast of St. Johannis.

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. Mittelwerk is situated 2 km northeast of St. Johannis.