St. Vitus

St. Vitus is a church in Nordhausen, Thuringia which is located on Plan. St. Vitus is situated nearby to the fire station Freiwillige Feuerwehr Hesserode, as well as near the community center Dorfgemeinschaftshaus.

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Type: Church
Denomination: Protestant
Description: church building in Hesserode, Nordhausen, Germany
Also known as: “St. Viti” and “St. Vitus (Hesserode)”
Address: Plan, Hesserode, Nordhausen, 99734

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial and Dorfkirche Kleinwechsungen.

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 4 km north of St. Vitus.

Dorfkirche Kleinwechsungen

Church

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Dorfkirche Kleinwechsungen is a church, which is situated 1¼ km northwest of St. Vitus.

Nordhausen station

Railway station

Photo: Michael Sander, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Nordhausen station is a railway junction in the north of the German state of Thuringia and the main station in the city of Nordhausen. It is located just south of the city centre in the valley of the Zorge. Nordhausen station is situated 3½ km east of St. Vitus.