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Nordhausen
Nordhausen
Nordhausen lies in the Harz Mountains. It used to be a very pretty town, but aerial bombing during World War II destroyed most of the town center. Neglect during the Communist period did not help either.
The main reason for stopping over here is to see the former KZ Gedänkstatte Dora (concentration camp) Kohnsteinweg 20, 99734 Nordhausen, just off the main road north at the edge of the Harz Mountains. This was where the V2 missiles that rained on London at the end of World War II were produced by prisoners, inside tunnels carved into the Harz Mountains. Dora was a subdivision of the notorious Buchenwald camp near Weimar.
Nordhausen is the south terminus of the Harzquerbahn, a narrow-gauge steam engine train that runs 60 km (36 miles) through the Harz Mountains to Wernigerode. Departing from Nordhausen, the best seats are in the rear on the left.
By car, Nordhausen is about an hour north of Erfurt. By hourly train, it takes between 75 and 105 minutes. Nordhausen is best visited en route to towns north of the Harz in Saxony Anhalt.
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