Winter moor

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Winter moor
Coordinates: 53 ° 11 ′ 5 "  N , 9 ° 47 ′ 40"  E
Height : 57 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.42 km²
Residents : 424  (Jul 2, 2012)
Population density : 66 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 29640
Area code : 05198
Wesseloh Wintermoor Insel Zahrensen Schülern Lünzen Großenwede Langeloh Ehrhorn Schneverdingen Heber (Schneverdingen)map
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Location of Wintermoor in Schneverdingen

Wintermoor ( Low German / Plattdüütsch Wintemaur ) is a district of the town of Schneverdingen in the Heidekreis district in Lower Saxony . The western neighboring district is called Wintermoor-Geversdorf / Wintemaur-Gäbesdbod .

geography

Wintermoor stop

Wintermoor is located about eight kilometers north of the core town of Schneverdingen, directly on the Lüneburg Heath Nature Reserve . The source of the Este is near Wintermoor .

history

Wintermoor war memorial
Burial site of 156 victims of a concentration camp train in the Wintermoor cemetery.

In 1901 Wintermoor, which at that time had just 106 inhabitants, was connected to the Heidebahn .

On March 1, 1974, Wintermoor was incorporated into the municipality of Schneverdingen.

Concentration camp trains

On 09/12 April 1945, two concentration camp trains, one with 5000 inmates of a concentration camp, stopped at Wintermoor station after several days of wandering. The concentration camp inmates were brought to Bergen-Belsen from the Nordhausen concentration camp in the Harz Mountains due to the approaching British army . The station was bombed by English fighter planes and almost completely destroyed, the concentration camp train was shot at over its full length. A parked ammunition train exploded. In the tumult that followed, some fled and various atrocities occurred between guards and inmates. As a result of hunger, thirst, illness and exhaustion, as well as being shot at the station, 156 people died and were buried in a mass grave near the station. The dead from this mass grave were later exhumed and buried in the newly established Wintermoor cemetery. A small chapel was built in 1947 and replaced in 1968 by a new building with a tower and colored window panes specially imported from France. There is also a memorial in the cemetery that commemorates the deceased and missing winter moors from the two world wars. In 1991 two memorial stones and 26 name plaques were added. More than 700 victims of war, Nazi tyranny, concentration camp trains, forced laborers and war victims from the Wintermoor Forest Hospital rest in the Wintermoor cemetery.

Wintermoor Forest Hospital

In 1942/43, the Wintermoor recovery house was built by Soviet and Polish forced laborers in Wintermoor and opened on February 8, 1943. It served as Hamburg's alternative hospital and initially had a capacity of 400 beds. In July 1943 the hospital was expanded to 825 beds. There were departments for internal medicine , infectious and lung diseases, surgery as well as an X-ray laboratory, several operating rooms and a pharmacy. Facility 2 was located on the opposite side of the street and was used as an alternative for the children's clinic at Eppendorf University Hospital . In 1947/48 the facility was converted into a tuberculosis clinic and was named Hamburgisches Krankenhaus Wintermoor in 1949 , at that time there were still 752 beds. From 1968 the hospital called itself a specialist clinic for diseases of the respiratory tract . In 1976 Hamburg gave up the clinic. Then the ENDO-Klinik Hamburg-Altona (a specialist clinic for bone and joint surgery) used part 1 of the system. It was mainly used for patient rehabilitation. The ENDO-Klinik gave up the Wintermoor location at the end of 1997. The privately run Wintermoor Care Center then took over the property previously used by the ENDO Clinic and built a nursing home for the elderly. The operating company of the Wintermoor care center ran into economic difficulties and was placed under insolvency administration in 2005. The buildings have not been used since then and are threatened with decay. A foreclosure auction before the competent Soltau district court in January 2010 was unsuccessful because no buyer could be found. In 2011, the property was acquired by the Schneverdingen housing, settlement and tourism company and is still in their possession.

politics

Karin Meyer is the head of the village. Hendrikje Köster is the head of Wintermoor-Geversdorf.

Culture and sights

The Hauenstein is reminiscent of the historic border between the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and the Diocese of Verden
  • At the place of the historical Hauenstein (Low German behaven = carved stone), this boulder, which was set in 2007, reminds us of the boundary stone that has strengthened the controversial border area of ​​the upper Wümme between the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and the Diocese of Verden since the Middle Ages. The border was finally determined in 1575 and marked with boundary stones in 1580 after disputes over this area had raged since the 13th century. The Harburg Office of the Principality of Lüneburg and its Bailiwick of Tostedt, the Winsen Office with its Amelinghausen Bailiwick and the Rotenburg Office of the Diocese of Verden met with its Bailiwick of Schneverdingen at this three-border corner.
  • The Ehrhorn youth forest home is located in the former part 2 of the entire complex of the Wintermoor forest hospital . Much of the former building was demolished or rebuilt.

societies

The Ehrhorn / Wintermoor volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1947. The shooting club Gut Ziel was founded two years later, followed in 1953 by the shooting club Erika in the neighboring town of Wintermoor-Geversdorf . Other clubs in Wintermoor are the SG Wintermoor 68 sports club , which offers football, table tennis, judo, gymnastics, children's gymnastics and Zumba, the folk dance group Wintermoorer Moorkluten and the Wintermoorer Oldtimer Club .

Economy and Infrastructure

Bundesstraße 3 , Landesstraße 171 and Kreisstraße 32 run through the village . There is also a stop on the Heidebahn on the route from Buchholz in the Nordheide via Soltau and Bennemühlen to Hanover .

Web links

Commons : Wintermoor  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.feuerwehr-schneverdingen.de/index.php/stadtfeuerwehr
  2. Resolution on the bilingualism of place names in Schneverdingen (PDF, 7 MB)  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schneverdingen.de  
  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 GmbH, Stuttgart and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 235 .
  4. http://www.kz-zuege.de/kapitel_07.htm
  5. https://kriegsgraeberstaetten.volksbund.de/friedhof/schneverdingen-wintermoor-ev-luth-friedhof
  6. Information on the war grave memorial at wintermoor.de
  7. Matthias Kanitz-Kabel: The former hospital has been empty since 2005: Alte Klinik Wintermoor - a sad picture of decay. Hamburger Abendblatt from January 15, 2010
  8. ^ Table on Hauenstein
  9. The Forest Education Center Lüneburg Heath - Ehrhorn House on landesforsten.de
  10. Information on the Wintermoor Forest Hospital at geschichtsspuren.de