List of living and labor camps in the Salzgitter area
The list of residential and labor camps in the Salzgitter area includes residential camps that were set up between 1938 and 1945 to accommodate workers for the construction of the Hermann-Göring-Werke and the Hermann-Göring-Stadt , today's Salzgitter . The camps were initially inhabited by the RAD , civilian German workers and later by contract workers from the occupied territories of Europe, forced laborers , prisoners of war and concentration camp inmates . After the end of the Second World War, they were used temporarily to accommodate displaced persons , German prisoners of war, and then as accommodation for displaced persons and the homeless. Some of the camps were converted into real apartments or housing estates.
Bearing no. | built | designation | Place / district | Alternative name | location | Users | function | After 1945 | |
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1 | 1937 | Salzgitter | Salzgitter bath | Finkenkuhle camp | between Braunschweiger Straße (B248) and the Ringelheim-Braunschweig railway line | Ore mining | Mining and construction workers camp | displaced persons, displaced from 1950 | |
2 | 1937 | Salzgitter | Salzgitter bath | Hanoverian loyalty | towards Hannoversche Treue III | Ore mining | Miners camp | displaced persons | Business |
3 | 1937/38 | Engerode | SZ-Engerode | north of Engerode | Ore mining | Miners camp | displaced persons, displaced from 1950 | ||
4th | 1938 | Gebhardshagen | SZ-Gebhardshagen | between Gustedter Strasse and Werkbahn | Ore mining | Miners and POW camps | displaced persons, displaced from 1950 | ||
5 | 1938 | Haverlahwiese | SZ-Gebhardshagen | Haverlahwiese camp | on Gustedter Straße, opposite Haverlahwiese I | Ore mining | Mining and forced labor camps | displaced persons, displaced from 1950 | |
6th | 1938 | Watenstedt | SZ-Watenstedt | east of Watenstedt, in the corner of Industriestraße Mitte / Eisenhüttenstraße | hut | Labor camp | Displaced persons from 1950 | ||
7th | 1938 | Drütte | SZ-Drütte | west of Drütte | Sager & Wörner | Construction workers camp | |||
7th | 1939 | Drütte | SZ-Drütte | west of Drütte | hut | Construction workers and prisoner of war camps | displaced persons, displaced from 1950 | ||
8th | 1939 | Hallendorf | SZ-Hallendorf | south of Hallendorf, on the Salder-Watenstedt road | hut | Construction workers and prisoner of war camps | combined with camp 10 | ||
9 | 1938 | Watenstedt | SZ-Watenstedt | east of Hallendorf | Wiemer & Trachten | Company warehouse | |||
9 | 1939 | Hallendorf | SZ-Hallendorf | east of Watenstedt, on the Watenstedt- B248 road , between camp 22 and 23 | hut | Permanent workers camp | Displaced persons from 1947 | ||
10 | 1938 | Hallendorf | SZ-Hallendorf | west of camp 8 | hut | Construction workers and prisoner of war camps | combined with camp 8, displaced persons from 1949/50 | ||
11 | 1938 | Watenstedt | SZ-Watenstedt | south of Watenstedt, on the Watenstedt – B248 road, Italian camp | hut | Workers' camp with after-work hall | displaced persons, refugee transit camp | ||
12 | 1938 | Salzgitter | Salzgitter bath | Lattice bearings | northwest grid, east B6 | Ore mining | Mining and forced labor camps | displaced persons | |
13 | 1938 | Leg around | SZ leg circum | Lager Beinum | south of Beinum, between the B248 and the Salzgitter-Bad-Braunschweig railway line | Ore mining | Miners and POW camps | displaced persons, from 1950 company apartments | |
14th | 1938 | Gustedt | Gustedt | Camp Gustedt / Camp Haverlahwiese II | Ore mining | Miners camp | displaced persons, displaced from 1950 | ||
15th | 1938 | Hornburg | Hornburg | in Hornburg, factory building | Water supply | Labor camp | |||
16 | 1938 | Hornburg | Hornburg | in Hornburg, on the road to Achim | Water supply | Labor camp | displaced persons | ||
17th | 1938 | Baddeckestedt | Baddeckestedt | Baddeckestedt | Water supply | ||||
17th | 1939 | Wolf Hagen | Wolfshagen in the Harz Mountains | Imperial Works | Returnees camp | ||||
17th | 1940 | Watenstedt | SZ-Watenstedt | ||||||
17th | 1940 | Bruchmachtersen | SZ-Bruchmachtersen | Stuag warehouse | north of Bruchmachtersen, today's ALDI site in Flst. 173 | Stuag | Company / prisoner of war camp | ||
17th | 1942 | Bruchmachtersen | SZ-Bruchmachtersen | Stuag warehouse | north of Bruchmachtersen, today's ALDI site in Flst. 173 | hut | POW camp | Disease hospital, from 1948 refugee camp | |
18th | 1938 | Lebenstedt | SZ-Lebenstedt | today's station area SZ-Lebenstedt | Housing AG | Labor camp | displaced persons | ||
19th | 1940 | Hallendorf | SZ-Hallendorf | not known | hut | Disinfection facility | was only used briefly as a warehouse | ||
20th | 1940 | Salzgitter | Salzgitter bath | towards SMAG | Mining AG | Labor camp | displaced persons, from 1950 school / kindergarten operetta theater | possibly in Schladen beforehand | |
21st | 1939 | Hallendorf | SZ-Hallendorf | Hallendorf labor education camp | north of Hallendorf | Gestapo | Labor education camp | Gestapo special camp | |
22nd | 1940 | Watenstedt | SZ-Watenstedt | to the east of Watenstedt, on the Watenstedt – B248 road, between camp 6 u. 9 | hut | Labor camp | Refugee transit camp, from 1948 apartments | ||
23 | 1939 | Watenstedt | SZ-Watenstedt | east of Watenstedt, on the Watenstedt – B248 road, east of camp 9 | hut | Eastern worker / Ukrainian camp (forced labor camp) | Refugee transit camp, from 1948 apartments | ||
24 | 1939 | Reppner | SZ reppner | Kiehwinkel / Reppnerlager | southwest of Reppner, in the Kiehwinkel | Housing AG | |||
24 | 1942 | Reppner | SZ reppner | Kiehwinkel / Reppnerlager | southwest of Reppner, in the Kiehwinkel | employment exchange | POW camp | ||
24 | 1939 | Reppner | SZ reppner | Kiehwinkel / Reppnerlager | southwest of Reppner, in the Kiehwinkel | hut | Prisoner of war / later death camp | displaced persons, "Reppner-Baltic-Camp 24", from 1950 displaced persons | |
25th | Before 1939 | Hallendorf | SZ-Hallendorf | north of Hallendorf, on both sides of Bleckenstedter Strasse | WHEEL | RAD warehouse | |||
25th | 1939 | Hallendorf | SZ-Hallendorf | north of Hallendorf, on both sides of Bleckenstedter Strasse | hut | Labor camp | displaced persons | formerly RAD warehouse; later merged with camp 25C | |
25A | 1939 | Hallendorf | SZ-Hallendorf | north of Hallendorf, 25A east of the street, around today's sports field | hut | (Forced) labor camp | displaced persons, apartments from 1950 | Partial warehouse of warehouse 25 | |
25B | 1939 | Hallendorf | SZ-Hallendorf | north of Hallendorf, 25B west of the street | hut | Police warehouse | Partial warehouse of warehouse 25 | ||
25C | 1939 | Hallendorf | SZ-Hallendorf | north of Hallendorf, 25C east of the street, around today's sports field | hut | (Forced) labor camp | displaced persons | Partial warehouse of warehouse 25, is sometimes confused with warehouse 21 in publications. | |
26th | 1939 | Heiningen | Heiningen | south of Heiningen , on the road to Börßum | WHEEL | RAD warehouse | |||
26th | 1939 | Heiningen | Heiningen | south of Heiningen, on the road to Börßum | Water supply | Construction workers and prisoner of war camps; water supply | Bodelschwingh institutions | ||
27 | Drütte | SZ-Drütte | Hüttelager Waschkaue / Salzgitter Drütte concentration camp | under the flyover | hut | Workers' camp, concentration camp | |||
28 | 1939/40 | Altenhagen | SZ-Lichtenberg | at the Altenhagen shaft | Ore mining | Mining, forced labor and prisoner of war camps | displaced persons | ||
29 | 1939 | Ohlendorf | SZ-Ohlendorf | directly at the Ohlendorf shaft | Ore mining | Mining, forced labor and prisoner of war camps | Presumably displaced persons | ||
30th | before mid-1939 | Army | SZ army | at Heerte, unsure | Company warehouse | ||||
30th | 1939 | Torment | Telgte | north of Telgte | Ore mining | Mining and forced labor camps | displaced persons | No. taken over from camp 30 (old) | |
31 | 1939 | Watenstedt | SZ-Watenstedt | south of Watenstedt, on the Watenstedt-B248 road, next to warehouse 11 | Company warehouse | before 1941 company and warehouse | |||
31 | 1940 | Watenstedt | SZ-Watenstedt | south of Watenstedt, on the Watenstedt-B248 road, next to warehouse 11 | hut | Labor camp | displaced persons, refugee transit camp | before 1941 company and warehouse | |
32 | 1938/39 | Drütte | SZ-Drütte | west of Drütte, on the way from Drütte to the head office | Company warehouse | before 1942 company warehouse | |||
32 | 1942 | Drütte | SZ-Drütte | west of Drütte, on the way from Drütte to the head office | hut | Labor camp | displaced persons, displaced from 1950 | before 1942 company warehouse | |
33 | 1939 | Salzgitter | Salzgitter bath | Company warehouse | before 1942 company warehouse | ||||
33 | 1942 | Conditions | SZ conditions | Klaggeshof in Beddingen | hut | (Forced) labor camp | displaced persons | before 1942 company warehouse | |
34 | 1938/39 | Conditions | SZ conditions | southwest of Beddingen | Company warehouse | ||||
34 | 1943 | Conditions | SZ conditions | southwest of Beddingen | hut | (Forced) labor camp | |||
35 | 1938/39 | Army | SZ army | northwest of Heerte, about the Diebessteig landfill | Bauwens & Tesch | Company warehouse | |||
35 | 1939 | Army | SZ army | northwest of Heerte, about the Diebessteig landfill | hut | POW camp, civilian worker from 1943 | displaced persons | ||
36 | 1939 | Company warehouse | |||||||
36 | 1939 | Schladen | Schladen | Imperial Works | |||||
36 | 1941 | Watenstedt | SZ-Watenstedt | south of Watenstedt, on the Salder -B248 road, east of camp 11, behind 31 | hut | Youth and later women's camps | displaced persons | ||
37 | reason | Bad reason | |||||||
37 | 1942 | Army | SZ army | At the tub | north army | hut | Workers' camp, family camp from 1943 | displaced persons, from 1950 company apartments | |
38 | 1941 | Ringelheim | SZ-Ringelheim | on Wittmerweg | Ore mining | Mining and forced labor camps | displaced persons | ||
39 | 1943 | Watenstedt | SZ-Watenstedt | west of Immendorf, on the road to Salder | hut | Women's camp | |||
40 | Lichtenberg? | SZ-Lichtenberg | only proven by an entry in the death register, nothing further known. | ||||||
41 | 1943 | Steterburg | SZ-Thiede | west of Steterburg | hut | (Forced) labor camp | |||
42 | 1941 | Helmstedt | Helmstedt | Mining AG | Forced labor camp | displaced persons | |||
43 | 1943 | Salzgitter | Salzgitter bath | Salzgitter-Bad concentration camp | Friedrich-Ebert-Straße, opposite Union-Sportplatz | Mining AG | Women's camp | ||
44 | 1943 | Ufingen | SZ-Üfingen | south of Üfingen | POW camp | ||||
45 | 1944 | Hallendorf | SZ-Hallendorf | between Hallendorf and Watenstedt, at the power plant construction site | hut | Labor camp | displaced persons, displaced from 1950 | ||
46 | 1943 | Watenstedt | SZ-Watenstedt | east of Eisenhüttenstrasse, north of camps 6, 22, 9 | hut | Labor camp | POW camps for German soldiers, refugee transit camps, then displaced persons | ||
47 | 1943 | Flachstöckheim | Flachstöckheim / SZ-Ohlendorf | between Flachstöckheim and Ohlendorf, south of the Wortlah shaft | Ore mining | Mining and forced labor camps | displaced persons, displaced from 1950 | possibly before 1943 Heinemann warehouse | |
48 | 1944 | Watenstedt | SZ-Watenstedt | not known | hut | ||||
49 | 1940 | Grid | SZ grid | Lenz camp | north grid | Lenz & Co. | Company warehouse | ||
49 | 1941 | Grid | SZ grid | Lenz camp | north grid | Ore mining | Mining, forced labor and prisoner of war camps | displaced persons, displaced from 1950 | Until 1941 Lenz camp |
50 | 1941 | Vienenburg | Vienenburg | north of Vienenburg | Water supply | (Forced) labor camp | displaced persons | ||
51 | 1943 | Hallendorf | SZ-Hallendorf | south of Hallendorf, next to camp 53 | hut | Labor camp | displaced persons, family camps (combined with camp 53) | ||
52 | 1944 | Gebhardshagen | SZ-Gebhardshagen | at Haverlahwiese II shaft | Ore mining | Forced labor camp | |||
53 | 1945 | Hallendorf | SZ-Hallendorf | south of Hallendorf, next to camp 51 | hut | Labor camp | displaced persons, family camp (combined with camp 51) | probably only separated from camp 51 after the end of the war | |
A. | 1940 | Watenstedt | SZ-Watenstedt | east of Watenstedt, on the Watenstedt-B248 road, opposite camp 23 | Braunschweig steel works | (Forced) labor camp | displaced persons | ||
A1 | 1943 | Barum | SZ army | northwest of Barum, Straße n. Heerte | Steel mills BS | (Forced) labor camp | displaced persons, from 1950 housing estate "Westerkamp" | ||
B. | 1940 | Watenstedt | SZ-Watenstedt | east of Watenstedt, on the Watenstedt-B248 road, next to warehouse A, opposite warehouse 23 | Steel mills BS | (Forced) labor camp | displaced persons | ||
C. | 1940 | Watenstedt | SZ-Watenstedt | east of Watenstedt, on the Watenstedt-B248 road, next to camp B, opposite camp 23 | Steel mills BS | (Forced) labor camp | 1946 prisoner of war camp, 1948 single persons, 1949 displaced persons | ||
C1 | 1944 | Watenstedt | SZ-Watenstedt | east of Watenstedt, on the Watenstedt-B248 road, next to warehouse C | Steel mills BS | (Forced) labor camp | Until December 1945 prisoner of war camp, families of employees, 1950 "Ostkamp" settlement | ||
D. | 1939 | Army | SZ army | Heerter forest / shrub wood "Cossack camp" | south army | WHEEL | RAD warehouse | ||
D. | 1939 | Army | SZ army | Heerter forest / shrub wood "Cossack camp" | south army | Imperial Works | Residential camp | displaced persons, displaced from 1950 | Autumn 1943 Russian and Ukrainian Cossack families |
E. | 1940 | Army | SZ army | Heerte east, steel works south, on the road to Barum | Steel mills BS | (Forced) labor camp | displaced persons, company apartments, "Musekamp" | Storage complex EFG | |
F. | 1940 | Army | SZ army | Heerte east, steel works south, on the road to Barum | Steel mills BS | (Forced) workers and prisoner of war camps | displaced persons, company apartments, "Musekamp" | Storage complex EFG | |
G | 1940 | Army | SZ army | Heerte east, steel works south, on the road to Barum | Steel mills BS | Forced labor camp | displaced persons, company apartments, "Musekamp" | Storage complex EFG | |
H | 1941 | Immendorf (Barum) | SZ-Immendorf | Watenstedt / Leinde concentration camp | west of the B248, north Barum, south Immendorf, east steel works | Steel mills BS | Forced labor camp | displaced persons | Watenstedt / Leinde subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp |
I. | 1941 | Immendorf (Barum) | SZ-Immendorf | Watenstedt / Leinde concentration camp | west of the B248, north Barum, south Immendorf, east steel works | Steel mills BS | Forced labor camp | displaced persons | Watenstedt / Leinde subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp |
K | 1941 | Immendorf (Barum) | SZ-Immendorf | Watenstedt / Leinde concentration camp | west of the B248, north Barum, south Immendorf, east steel works | Steel mills BS | Forced labor camp | displaced persons | Watenstedt / Leinde subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp |
L. | 1941 | Immendorf (Barum) | SZ-Immendorf | west of the B248, north Barum, south Immendorf, east steel works | Steel mills BS | Forced labor camp | displaced persons | ||
M. | 1942 | Immendorf (Barum) | SZ-Immendorf | Watenstedt / Leinde concentration camp | west of the B248, north Barum, south Immendorf, east steel works | Steel mills BS | Forced labor camp | displaced persons | Watenstedt / Leinde subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp |