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Reinsehlen is a small town in the Heidekreis district in Lower Saxony . The place is part of the town of Schneverdingen and is part of the Insel district.
Reinsehlen is about 5 km north of the city center and is connected to it via the L171.
history
In Reinsehlen, a Wehrmacht airfield was built in 1938, which was used after the end of the war as a refugee camp and later by troops of the British Rhine Army under the name Camp Reinsehlen as a base camp for tank exercises in the Lüneburg Heath . The camp is now a nature reserve. In 1998 the Dalai Lama visited the large open space. Today the Alfred Toepfer Academy for Nature Conservation and a modern hotel complex are located in the area .
Culture and sights
In Reinsehlen there is a high ropes course and a glider airfield .
Personalities
- Bruno Georges (1892–1968), Hamburg police chief, died in Reinsehlen
- Jörg-Werner Schmidt (1941–2010), painter and installation artist, had a studio in Camp Reinsehlen
- Lisa Wilcox (* 1966), US dressage rider, worked at the Reinsehlen stud
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Höhenweg GmbH website on the Reinsehlen site ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Website of the Schneverdingen air sports club
Coordinates: 53 ° 9 ′ 13 " N , 9 ° 48 ′ 32.1" E