Moringen is a town in the district

Northeim Northeim (; nds, Nuurten) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, seat of the district of Northeim, with, in 2011, a population of 29,000. It lies on the German Half-Timbered House Road. History Northeim is first mentioned in 800 in a document ...

, in the southern part 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 ...

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. The town consists of the center Moringen and eight surrounding villages,

Fredelsloh Fredelsloh is a village in Lower Saxony in Germany close to the town of Northeim Northeim (; nds, Nuurten) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, seat of the district of Northeim, with, in 2011, a population of 29,000. It lies on the German Half ...

being one of them.

History

The town and its villages were founded over a thousand years ago. It is the seat of a psychiatric hospital, founded in late 19th century. During

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the hospital was emptied and used by the Nazis as the

Moringen concentration camp Three concentration camps operated in succession in Moringen, Lower Saxony, from April 1933 to April 1945. ''KZ Moringen'', established in the centre of the town on site of former 19th century workhouses (german: Landeswerkhäuser), originally house ...

. Today it is again a psychiatric hospital.

Economy

Among the larger firms operating in the community is Piller, a maker of industrial fans. The Northeim district's major waste Landfill is in Moringen.

Museum

*house ''KZ Gedenkstätte'' *historic gas holder

Literature

* ''The Women's Camp in Moringen: A Memoir of Imprisonment in Nazi Germany 1936-1937'' by Gabriele Herz (Author), Jane Caplan (Editor), Hildegard Herz (Translator), Howard Hartig (Translator). Berghahn Books (15 Nov 2005). ; .

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