Osterhagen is a village near the town of
Bad Lauterberg in the
district of Göttingen in
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 ...
, Germany. The village lies between Bad Lauterberg and
Bad Sachsa
Bad Sachsa is a town in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The town was one of the few municipalities in West Germany that imported electric power from former East Germany. This was done via Neuhof Substation.
Geography
Bad ...
. Not far from Osterhagen is the
Weingartenloch, a supposed treasure cave. The
Karstwanderweg passes nearby.
Osterhagen lies on the
Uerdingen line
The Uerdingen Line (german: Ürdinger Linie, Uerdinger Linie, nl, Uerdinger linie; named after Uerdingen by Georg Wenker) is the isogloss within West Germanic languages that separates dialects which preserve the ''-k'' sound in the first perso ...
, in the traditional area of the
Eastphalian language
Eastphalian, or Eastfalian (), is a dialect of West Low German, spoken in southeastern parts of Lower Saxony and western parts of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany.
Geographical extent
The language area between the Weser and Elbe rivers stretches from t ...
, a Low German dialect. Osterhagen lies not far from the border of
Thuringia
Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million.
Erfurt is the capital and lar ...
.
Recent history
In July 1944, in a former brick pit near Osterhagen, a
concentration camp
Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simpl ...
for about 300 prisoners was built with the aim of finishing the Osterhagen-
Nordhausen railway line.
Today there is a memorial and an information panel on the edge of the former camp grounds.
References
External links
* - town plan of Osterhagen, showing local points of interest
Villages in Lower Saxony
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