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unusual facts about Geeste, Emsland


Franz Schall

While attempting to glide back to his base at Hesepe, he was intercepted by a P-51, probably piloted by 1st Lt. James W. Kenney of the 357th Fighter Group, which badly damaged Schall's Me 262 A-1a (Werknummer 110 404—factory number) "White 7".


Emslandlager

The moorland labor camps, Emslandlager ("Emsland camps") - as they were known - were for political opponents of the Third Reich, located outside of Börgermoor, now part of the commune Surwold, not far from Papenburg.

Erich Maria Remarque

From May 1920 he worked in Klein Berßen in the former County of Hümmling, now Emsland, and from August 1920 in Nahne, which has been a part of Osnabrück since 1972.

Frisian Way

South of Heede another road from Winschoten to the trade route of the Hümmling crossed the Frisian Way.

Gustav Sorge

Gustav Hermann Sorge (April 24, 1911, Rydzyna, Silesia – 1978, Rheinbach, prison), nicknamed "Der eiserne Gustav" (The Iron Gustav) for his brutality, was an SS-Hauptscharführer and a guard at Esterwegen concentration camp in the Emsland region of Germany prior to being assigned to Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Heimathaus Twist

That what is known as Heimathaus Twist consist of three buildungs in traditional construction style of the Emsland county.

Lehe

Lehe, Lower Saxony, a municipality in the district of Emsland, Lower Saxony "

Oberlangen

Oberlangen is a municipality in district (Landkreis) Emsland, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), north-western Germany.

Spezi

In some regions of northern Germany (Emsland), Spezi stands for a mixture of traditional German Schnapps and cola.

TERRA.vita Nature Park

The northern part of the nature park begins in the Emsland near Herzlake and extends from there over the southern fringes of the Oldenburger Münsterland and Osnabrück Land in a southeast direction over the Ankum Heights to Bramsche.


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