In the woods west of the city of Soltau, near the town of Schneverdingen, stands a small abandoned house with an inscription on its façade: “Built in 1957 – demolished in 1963 – rebuilt 1966.” No reliable information about this specific building has been found in archives or publications to date. However, the dates can be placed in the historical context of the region.
In the 1950s and 1960s, many small weekend and hunting lodges were built in the Lüneburg Heath – often without permission. At the same time, the Soltau-Lüneburg Agreement of 1959, which came into force in 1963, led to drastic changes... (more)
The history of this abandoned prison began shortly after World War II. Originally, an agricultural business was established here, where prisoners were supposed to cultivate moorland and heathland. They were initially housed in temporary Nissen huts—simple corrugated iron structures that offered little more than a roof over their heads. Over the years, this developed into a versatile prison operation with animal husbandry and agriculture. Cattle, pigs, and fields of vegetables and potatoes not only supplied the inmates on site, but also other prisons in the area.
In the mid-1970s, the use....(more)
Published 2025-08-20
We visited a total of three places on our short tour three weeks before our summer vacation in 2020. After visiting the disused railway line and the hotel ruins, we paid a visit to a former eye clinic. We had already visited it once in 2016, and since the building was on the way, we wanted to get an impression of the location, because two years after our first visit, the building and the surrounding park were sold to a new owner.
The parking lot was the same as it had been a few years earlier, so the walk to the location was correspondingly short.
To make a long story short, nothing had changed since our visit four years earlier...(more)
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