Moringen is a town in the district

Northeim Northeim (; ) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, seat of the Northeim (district), district of Northeim, with a population of 30,118 as of 31 December 2023. It lies on the German Half-Timbered House Road. History Northeim is first mentioned in ...

, in the southern part of

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. The town consists of the center Moringen and eight surrounding villages, Fredelsloh being one of them.

History

The town and its villages were founded over a thousand years ago. It is the seat of a psychiatric hospital, founded in late 19th century. During

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the hospital was emptied and used by the Nazis as the Moringen concentration camp. Today it is again a psychiatric hospital.

Economy

Among the larger firms operating in the community is Piller, a maker of industrial fans. The Northeim district's major waste

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is in Moringen.

Museum

*house ''KZ Gedenkstätte'' *historic gas holder

Literature

* ''The Women's Camp in Moringen: A Memoir of Imprisonment in Nazi Germany 1936-1937'' by Gabriele Herz (Author), Jane Caplan (Editor), Hildegard Herz (Translator), Howard Hartig (Translator). Berghahn Books (15 Nov 2005). ; .

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