Niederzwehren

Famous residents include storyteller Dorothea Viehmann, politician Elisabeth Selbert and brewer Frederick Krug.

The camp was begun around December 1914 and held British and French prisoners captured on the western front.

This included bringing dead prisoners from at least a dozen other smaller camps around Germany as a consolidation exercise.

[1] The graveyard currently holds 1795 Commonwealth graves from the First World War,[2] largely those who died of wounds following capture, or from disease within the camp.

[3] The Russian cemetery (to one side) contains a relatively rare monument: remembering the 38 guards who died during their duties (mainly during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918).