Lohheide
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The Lohheide is an inhabited unincorporated community in the district of Celle in the southern Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony.
Geography
The area is located about ten kilometers west of the Nature Park South Heath. The district Lohheide forms together with the adjacent west district Osterheide the military training area mountains.
Neighboring communities of the area are listed clockwise:
- Mountains ( East)
- Winsen ( south)
- Osterheide ( unincorporated area west / north)
- Wietzendorf (short border piece in the Northeast )
The area corresponds to the district Lohheide with the district key 032360 After living space directory Lower Saxony from 1987 ( census ), the following inhabited dwelling places in the area were detected, naturally all in border areas.:
- Bergen- Belsen
- Brede Beck ( lock)
- Gudehausen
- Hartmannshausen
- Hasselhorst
- Hörsten
- Hoppenstedt
- Wardböhmen before the wood
The Bergen-Belsen Memorial is located southeast of the area. The office is situated in the largest district, Hasselhorst, in the east on the border to the city of Bergen. Hartmannshausen located in the extreme south of the border to the municipality Winsen ( Aller).
History
1935 by the German Wehrmacht between Bergen ( Landkreis Celle) and Fallingbostel the military training area mountains has been created. For this purpose, a total of 25 communities were dissolved and relocated their inhabitants. Of the Truppenübungsplatz comprehensive " Gutsbezirk space mountain " was formed in 1938 and assigned to the district Fallingbostel. The Gutsbezirk in 1945, divided into two separate areas, namely in the estate districts Osterheide and Lohheide. Osterheide remained at Fallingbostel district while Lohheide was reintegrated in the district of Celle. The Lohheide today includes the located in the district of Celle part of 1958 resulting " NATO firing range Bergen- Hohne ".
Legal situation
According to § 23 paragraph 4 sentence 3 of the Lower Saxon Municipal Constitution Act ( NKomVG ) managing community- free areas is regulated by a regulation. After that, the "discharge of the public duties of one's own and the transferred sphere of the landowner " is, in the case of Lohheide and Osterheide So the federal government transferred. The constitution of an unincorporated district is different than that of a community. His organs are the district director and the chosen by the inhabitants inhabitants representation. The district director is proposed by the landowner and then elected by the inhabitants representation. The participation rights of the citizens are limited to the choice of the representation as well as to the possibility of citizens Question Time and residents heard during public meetings of the Committee.
Coat of arms similar logo of the unincorporated county
Population representation
The inhabitants representation consists of 11 members and the district director. Its members include the following parties or voter communities:
Cultural and heritage
In the unincorporated county Lohheide is the Brede Beck Castle on Lieth Bach (Part of Bergen- Hohne ). It is closed to the public. Since 1945, it is the officers' mess of the Command of the British Army. Occasionally, the British use it as a guest house. As such, it was already the British Royal Family as accommodation, as the members of the British army in Germany paid a visit to troops.
Furthermore, to find various historical monuments in the region. These are the memorial of the concentration camp Bergen- Belsen, the camp Bergen- Hohne, the cemetery for the victims of tyranny, the German war cemetery, the memorial to Colonel General Werner Freiherr von Fritsch and Soviet prisoners of war cemetery.