Tidofeld has been an autonomous part of the East Frisian borough of Norden since 1996 and has around 1,000 inhabitants (as at 12/2016)),[1] spread over an area of just 0.47 km².

Freiherr Tido was a brother of Field Marshal Dodo of Innhausen and Knyphausen.

[3] It was the forerunner of the Church of Grance (Gnadenkirche) built in 1961 and - after it was deconsecrated - documentation centre.

Among the attractions in Tidofeld is a permanent exhibition in the disused Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Mercy, which documents the ethnic cleansing of the former German eastern territories.

[4] This project is under the patronage of the former Lower Saxon minister-president, David McAllister.