Old Garge

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Old Garge
City of Bleckede
Coordinates: 53 ° 15 ′ 56 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 32 ″  E
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 21354
Area code : 05852
Alt Garge (Lower Saxony)
Old Garge

Location of Alt Garge in Lower Saxony

Alt Garge ( Old Garg in Low German ) is a district of the town of Bleckede in the Lüneburg district .

geography

Alt Garge is six kilometers southeast of Bleckede and west of the Elbe .

history

In the first half of the twentieth century, numerous smaller industrial companies settled in the then independent municipality, so that the place sometimes looked more like an industrial area with an attached housing estate. Even today, the architecture, which differs significantly from that of the other districts, with apartment buildings along Elbuferstraße ( Hauptstraße there ) is a reminder of that time, but no industrial operations have survived.

The census of September 13, 1950 showed that there were 625 residents in 189 households in the village. On March 1, 1974, Alt Garge was incorporated into the city of Bleckede.

Alt-Garge coal-fired power station

The Hamburgische Electricitäts-Werke (HEW) began building a coal-fired power station in Alt-Garge, directly on the Elbe , during World War II . The first power plant block went online in 1946 with 70 megawatts.

In 1974 the power plant was shut down. In 1987/88 the power plant's facilities were dismantled. Remnants of the systems are still visible.

In the 1970s, consideration was given to building a nuclear power plant in Alt Garge.

Alt Garge concentration camp branch

To carry out the construction of coal-fired power plant Old-Garge Nazi leaders in 1944 built a new warehouse complex that serves as the central warehouse in Old Garge the Neuengamme concentration camp was operated. The prisoners were brought from the Neuengamme and Sachsenhausen concentration camps . In the vicinity of what was then the Alt-Garge concentration camp external command, a memorial commemorates the fate of the prisoners.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günther Wagener: Directory of the cities, integrated communities, the member communities and districts in the Hanseatic city and the district of Lüneburg with the entry of the Low German place names. (pdf) In: www.landkreis-lueneburg.de. August 27, 2015, p. 2 , accessed December 20, 2018 .
  2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Official municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Final results after the census of September 13, 1950 (=  Statistics of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 33 ). W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Cologne 1952, p. 45 ( digital version [PDF; 27.1 MB ]).
  3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 234 .
  4. ↑ Defend, hide, run away . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1976, p. 89 ( online ).
  5. ↑ John Hopp: Hell in the Idyl. The Alt Garge satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp, extended new edition, VSA: Verlag Hamburg 2013. and: The Alt Garge concentration camp branch: The memory is still awake . In: Elbmarschpost September 14, 2006