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Cremlingen is a municipality in the district of
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. It borders Lehre,
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, Sickte, and
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. Parts of it are adjacent to the
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hills.


History

From May 8, 1944 until April 12, 1945 a
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was established in the quarter Schandelah.The camp is listed as No. 1292 Schandelah, Kreis Braunschweig, in the official German list. The camp was a subcamp to the
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. Until its deestablishment in 1974, the municipalities later merged into Cremlingen were part of the district of
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.


Traffic

The municipality has 2 train stations in the towns of Schandelah and Weddel at the railroad from
Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( ; from Low German , local dialect: ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the ...
to
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; Weddel is also served by trains towards
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( Weddel loop). The Federal Highway 1 crosses the municipality from east to west, and since the end of September 2006 Cremlingen has a connection point to the Federal Motorway ( Bundesautobahn 39), which offers quick connections both to Wolfsburg and Braunschweig.


Division of the municipality

Cremlingen was established in 1974 by merging the former municipalities of * Abbenrode * Cremlingen * Destedt * Gardessen * Hemkenrode * Hordorf * Klein Schöppenstedt * Schandelah * Schulenrode * Weddel


Notable places

Cremlingen hosts the Cremlingen transmitter, a major
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antenna used for broadcasting
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.


See also

* List of subcamps of Neuengamme * The Permanent Cure


Notes


References

*Official German list of concentration camp
Verzeichnis der Konzentrationslager und ihrer Außenkommandos


External links

* {{Authority control Wolfenbüttel (district) Neuengamme concentration camp