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Ordensburg Vogelsang

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Ordensburg Vogelsang

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    1. Wahlerscheid Bike Path – View of the Rursee loop from Oberhausen

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    October 6, 2019

    Burg Vogelsang

    General location plan Burg Vogelsang, 2009
    The NS-Ordensburg Vogelsang is a former training camp of the NSDAP in the German Eifel, near the Belgian border in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.


    The concept of Ordensburg arose in response to the need of the party and the state administration to acquire stronger symbols from German history and to give them a different explanation ideologically. Three such fortresses were built to retrain the military elite of the Third Reich in particular, this fortress, the Ordensburg Sonthofen and the Ordensburg Krössinsee. Each castle had a special assignment in the training.

    This castle, built between 1934 and 1936 to a design by Clemens Klotz, housed five hundred SA people (Ordensjunkers) until the start of WWII. In the Ordensburg, the Nazis indoctrined recruits between 25 and 30 years old in their racial doctrine. The extensive complex comprised community houses (so-called Kameradschaftsraüme), dormitories, sports facilities and a Thingplatz used as an auditorium. During the Second World War the complex was used as a barracks of the Wehrmacht. [1]

    After the Second World War, the Vogelsang became a military training area for various NATO countries; first for the British and from 1950 to 2005, for the Belgian armed forces. The Dutch Army also stayed there many times.

    In 2006, the monumental complex was opened to the public as part of the Eifel National Park. A year-long renovation was completed on 11 September 2016 and a museum was opened. The museum is open daily.
    In 2015, it was announced that part of the former elite school of the Third Reich would be transformed into a reception center for asylum seekers. It concerns De Schelde quarter that was established after the war.


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      April 25, 2020

      Impressive facility, beautiful as it is used today.

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        May 29, 2020

        A place steeped in history, the former Nazi order castle. In addition to the NS exhibition, there is a very beautiful nature park exhibition "Wildlife Dreams".

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