Halt whistle
| Halt whistle | |||
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 58 ′ N , 2 ° 28 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 3791 | ||
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| ZIP code section | NE | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| District | Northumberland | ||
| Website: Haltwhistle | |||
Haltwhistle is a small town in Northumberland , England . It is located about 10 miles east of Brampton on the River Tyne . The remains of the Roman road Stanegate and Hadrian's Wall run about three kilometers north of the city . Haltwhistle is on the third leg of the Hadrian's Wall Path and borders Northumberland National Park to the north . The Pennine Way also runs through Haltwhistle.
Haltwhistle has a train station on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway .
The Haltwhistle Burn flows into the Tyne on the eastern edge of the village.
history
General
Haltwhistle's history of settlement goes back to the time of the Roman Empire (see Haltwhistle Burn and Fort Aesica / Great Chesters on Hadrian's Wall ). In the 18th and 19th centuries, coal was mined at Haltwhistle as part of the emerging industrialization , which caused the city to experience a greater population increase.
Featherstone POW Camp
At Featherstone Park about six kilometers southwest of Haltwhistle on the banks of the Tyne was the POW camp Camp 18 between the end of the Second World War and 1948 . Together with the interpreter officer Herbert Sulzbach , the German camp leader Ferdinand Heim as well as professors, teachers and master craftsmen from the ranks of the German prisoners of war, the British organized a comprehensive program of lectures in the officers camp and made it possible for the inmates a. a. the acquisition of the Abitur, technical training and even the visit to the camp's own university.
In the context of the Conti affair , the German resistance fighter Willi Brundert was accused by the GDR authorities of having been recruited by the British secret service while he was detained in Camp 18 .
Partnerships
Haltwhistle has partnerships with the following communities:
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Matthias Weindel: Living and learning behind barbed wire - The Protestant camp communities and theological schools in England, Italy and Egypt , Göttingen 2001, p. 103.
- ^ Renate Held: Captivity in Great Britain - German soldiers of the Second World War in British custody. Munich 2008, p. 193 ff.
- ↑ Eduard Hoffmann and Ingrid Leifgen: As a young German in English captivity . Broadcast on Monday, October 19, 2009, 10:05 a.m., SWR2 , audio document, accessed on June 17, 2014.
- ↑ Mittmann, Wolfgang: Tatzeit - Great cases of the People's Police , Berlin 2000, page 92 f.