Ghost Towns
💥 War & expulsion

Benhorn

Abandoned village · Germany

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
52.795, 9.735
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Why it was abandoned

💥 War & expulsion

Detected automatically from the text: It disappeared from the map in 1935/36, because the German Wehrmacht wanted to establish the Bergen-Hohne Training Area, today the largest military training area in Germany.

History

Benhorn was a village in the old district of Fallingbostel, on the Heidmark in Lower Saxony in North Germany. It disappeared from the map in 1935/36, because the German Wehrmacht wanted to establish the Bergen-Hohne Training Area, today the largest military training area in Germany. The inhabitants were resettled.

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