Horneburg

Infobox Ort in Deutschland
Wappen = Wappen Horneburg.jpg
lat_deg = 53 |lat_min = 30 |lat_sec = 34
lon_deg = 9 |lon_min = 34 |lon_sec = 30
Lageplan = Horneburg_in_STD.pngBundesland = Niedersachsen
Landkreis = Stade
Samtgemeinde = Horneburg
Höhe = 12
Fläche = 17.13
Einwohner = 5518
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 21640
Vorwahl = 04163
Kfz = STD
Gemeindeschlüssel = 03 3 59 027
Straße = Lange Straße 47 - 49
Website = [http://www.horneburg.de/ www.horneburg.de]
Bürgermeister = Hans-Jürgen Detje
Partei = CDU

Horneburg is a municipality southwest of Hamburg (Germany) in the district of Stade in Lower Saxony.

Horneburg is also the seat of the "Samtgemeinde" ("collective municipality") Horneburg.

History

During WWII a concentration camp was established in Horneburg. [The camp is listed as No. 636 Horneburg, Kreis Stade (District Stade) in the official German list.] It was a subcamp to the Neuengamme concentration camp. From Oktober 1944 until February 1945 about 200 Hungarian Jewish women and 50 Dutch women were forced to work for the "Philips-Valvo-Röhrenwerke". Especially the Dutch women were also forced to work in the port of Horneburg. The Hungarian women were coming from the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, the Dutch women transported from Ravensbrück concentration camp. Mid-February 1945 the SS deported the women to the subcamp Porta Westfalica. 300 Hungarian women coming from a subcamp of Groß Rosen and Auschwitz were transported to Horneburg on February 24 1945. These women were transported to Bergen-Belsen on April 8 1945, where they arrived on April 11. Memorial Neuengamme website]

Memorial

On October 22 1997 a memorial stone with a plaque were installed at the location of the camp, at the street crossing Vordamm/Auedamm, Horneburg.

ee also

*List of subcamps of Neuengamme

Notes

References

*Official German list: [http://bundesrecht.juris.de/begdv_6/anlage_6.html Verzeichnis der Konzentrationslager und ihrer Außenkommandos gemäß § 42 Abs. 2 BEG] de icon
*Memorial Neuengamme [http://www.kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de/ website] de icon