Steinfeld (Harlingerode)

Steinfeld was a war workers' camp and reception camp for people displaced from the East in the field marks of the Harlingerode community and the city of Oker in what was then the Wolfenbüttel district from World War II to April 1, 1960.

geography

The camp was located near the Vienenburg – Goslar railway on the northwestern edge of the Harzburg office . Not far from the camp was the Düringerode desert .

Nowadays Steinfeld is the name for an area in the northwestern Feldmark of Harlingerode. It is used commercially by various raw material processing companies.

history

The barracks settlement was initially designed for a capacity of 200 people. After the arrival of expellees in the community and, in particular, mountain damage in Göttingerode during the 1950s, the call for new apartments to be built became loud, so planners from the state of Lower Saxony suggested the establishment of a third district in 1953/54 on the site of the barracks settlement. The proposal was rejected by the Harlingerode municipal council because the supply of a place several kilometers away was unreasonable and the settlers in Göttingerode, affected by mountain damage, resisted moving to “Little Korea”, as the settlement was called in reference to the Korean War . The camp was evacuated on April 1, 1960.

literature

• Wilhelm Baumgarten : Contributed to: The larger Bad Harzburg . Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1993, p. 16-22 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 55 ′ 32.4 "  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 13.4"  E