Deil was a farm in the old district (''Altkreis'') of

Fallingbostel Bad Fallingbostel (Northern Low Saxon: ''Bad Fambossel'') is the district town (''Kreisstadt'') of the Heidekreis district in the German state of Lower Saxony. Since 1976 the town has had a state-recognised Kneipp spa and has held the title of ...

, located in the Heidmark region in the north German state of

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

. In 1935/36 the farm was commandeered by the barracks built in the vicinity and served as an officers mess. There were probably several farms in a village called Deil in former times. Deil Farm (''Hof Deil'') belonged to the parish of Bockhorn and was its largest farmstead. The last owner sold wood, but could not avoid going bankrupt.

History

Heath farmers lived in Deil. Their main source of income until the 19th century was the keeping of moorland sheep known locally as ''

Heidschnucke The Heidschnucke is a group of three types of moorland sheep from northern Germany. Like a number of other types from Scandinavia and Great Britain, they are Northern European short-tailed sheep. The three breeds of Heidschnucke (in order of popu ...

n''.

Sources

* Hinrich Baumann: ''Die Heidmark - Wandel einer Landschaft. Geschichte des Truppenübungsplatzes Bergen.'' 2006 * Hans Stuhlmacher: ''Die Heidmark.'' Schneeheide 1939 {{Heidekreis-geo-stub Heidmark Abandoned villages in Lower Saxony