Lübberstedt Explained

Image Coa:DEU Lübberstedt COA.svg
Coordinates:53.3167°N 56°W
Image Plan:Lübberstedt in OHZ.svg
State:Niedersachsen
District:Osterholz
Samtgemeinde:Hambergen
Elevation:14
Area:12.32
Postal Code:27729
Area Code:04793
Licence:OHZ
Gemeindeschlüssel:03 3 56 006
Mayor:Dieter Langmaack
Party:CDU

Lübberstedt is a village located in the district of Osterholz in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is located north of Osterholz-Scharmbeck. Together with the villages of Hambergen, Axstedt, Holste and Vollersode, it forms the Samtgemeinde of Hambergen.

History

During the last year of the war (1944) a Neuengamme sub-camp was erected near the village[1] for Jewish women from Auschwitz-Birkenau. Several female guards (Aufseherin) staffed the camp and maltreated the prisoners who were starved, overworked and brutalized.

Transport

Lübberstedt has a railway station on the Bremerhaven to Bremen line that opened in 1862. The main road is the B 74 connecting Bremen and Stade.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Anlage zu § 1: Verzeichnis der Konzentrationslager und ihrer Außenkommandos gemäß § 42 Abs. 2 BEG . German . 883 Lübberstedt, Kreis Wesermünde . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090423004151/http://bundesrecht.juris.de/begdv_6/anlage_6.html . 2009-04-23 .