page_title: Heidmark
section_title: Culture and places of interest
hierarchical_section_title: Heidmark / History of the Heidmark / Culture and places of interest
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Hof der Heidmark in Bad Fallingbostel. Zweiständerhaus von 1642, ehemals der Hof Buchholz (Bookholts Hof) aus dem Ort Kolk, ehemalige Gemeinde Oberndorfmark, Osterheide
context_page_description: The Heidmark is an area of the Lüneburg Heath, much of which has not been accessible to the population since about 1935/1936. The establishment of a large military training area by the German armed forces, the Wehrmacht, as part of their rearmament and preparation for war resulted in the evacuation of 24 villages and, since then the training area has been out-of-bounds to non-military personnel. Today it has become the Bergen-Hohne Training Area, the largest of its kind in Europe.
context_section_description: in Bad Fallingbostel:
  the Heidmarkhalle
  Museum of the Archaeological Society (Archäologischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft e.V.).
  In the Megalithpark Osterberg large stones are exhibited, that were pushed into the Heidmark from Scandinavia by massive ice sheets during the ice ages.
  the Hof der Heidmark farmhouse with Rummelsburg Heimatstube, a Low German house in the Liethwald
  the Protestant St. Dionysius Church in the town centre
  the Quintus monument at St. Dionysius Church
  in Oerbke:
  Cemetery of the Unknown Soldiers (Friedhof der Namenlosen), a war cemetery in which around 30,000 Russian prisoners-of-war from the Second World War are buried in mass graves
  in and near Ostenholz:
  Timber-framed church with a wooden tower dating from 1724
  Hoher Stein, a memorial to the evacuation of the villages in 1936 when the Nazi military training area was created
  the Sieben Steinhäuser, neolithic dolmens in the south of the military training area
  in Wense:
  Estate churche (Gutskapelle), a splendid church dating from 1558
  in Vierde:
  Bronze Age gravesite.
  in Dorfmark:
  the Protestant St. Martin's Church
  the grave of Erich von Manstein
  in Fahrenholz
  Bronze Age tumuli
  Neolithic dolmen just before Krelingen
caption: Farmhouse on the Heidmark in an old Fachhallenhaus
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