Breitenfelde Explained

Image Coa:Wappen Breitenfelde.svg
Coordinates:53.6°N 48°W
Image Plan:Breitenfelde in RZ.svg
State:Schleswig-Holstein
District:Herzogtum Lauenburg
Amt:Breitenfelde
Elevation:38
Area:12.54
Postal Code:23881
Area Code:04542
Licence:RZ
Gemeindeschlüssel:01 0 53 014
Website:www.amt-
breitenfelde.de
Mayor:Anne Fröhlich[1]

Breitenfelde is a village in the district of Lauenburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated near the Elbe-Lübeck Canal, approx. 5 km southwest of Mölln, and 30 km south of Lübeck.

Breitenfelde is part of the Amt ("collective municipality") Breitenfelde.

From November 1944 to April 1945, an external command of the Neuengamme concentration camp was housed in Breitenfelde. It comprised 20 prisoners who had to do forced labor for the SS-Bauleitung Mölln in the sawmill of the Karl Gülzow company.[2]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.ln-online.de/Lokales/Lauenburg/Breitenfelde-Buergermeister-Arnold-Bruhn-zurueckgetreten Mayor Arnold Bruhn resigned (in German)
  2. Web site: Satellite camp in Breitenfelde near Mölln. Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial. https://web.archive.org/web/20181017154205/https://www.kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de/en/history/satellite-camps/satellite-camps/breitenfelde-bei-moelln/. 2018-10-17. live. 2018-10-17.