Osterhagen is a village near the town of Bad Lauterberg

Bad Lauterberg

Bad Lauterberg is a town in the district of Osterode, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the southern Harz, approx. 15 km southwest of Braunlage, and 20 km southeast of Osterode am Harz....

 in the district of Osterode

Osterode (district)

Osterode is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Göttingen, Northeim and Goslar, and by the state of Thuringia .-History:...

 in Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...

, Germany. The village lies between Bad Lauterberg and Bad Sachsa

Bad Sachsa

Bad Sachsa is a town in the district of Osterode, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the southern Harz, approx. 15 km south of Braunlage, and 25 km southeast of Osterode am Harz. It is well known for being the town where Berthold Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and his four...

. Not far from Osterhagen is the Weingartenloch

Weingartenloch

Weingartenloch is a cave near the German town of Osterhagen. The cave is supposed to harbor treasure.-History:Weigartenloch is mentioned in legend and folk legends in Germany. One retold by M.E.T. Lauder has inhabitants of the town of Osterhagen tricking a poor man into going with them to the cave...

, a supposed treasure cave. The Karstwanderweg

Karstwanderweg

The Karst Trail is a marked and signed footpath that runs for over 250 kilometres between Förste in Lower Saxony and Pölsfeld in Saxony-Anhalt through the karst landscape of the South Harz in Germany....

 passes nearby.

Osterhagen lies on the Uerdingen line

Uerdingen line

The Uerdingen Line is the isogloss within West Germanic languages that separates dialects which preserve the -k sound at the end of a word from dialects in which the word final -k has changed to word final -ch...

, in the traditional area of the Eastphalian language

Eastphalian language

Eastphalian, or Eastfalian , is a West Low German dialect spoken east of the Weser river in southern parts of Lower Saxony and western parts of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany, including Hanover, Braunschweig, Hildesheim, Göttingen and Magdeburg, an area that roughly corresponds with the historic region...

, a Low German dialect. Osterhagen lies not far from the border of Thuringia

Thuringia

The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....

.

Recent history

In July 1944, in a former brick pit near Osterhagen, a concentration camp for about 300 prisoners was built with the aim of finishing the Osterhagen-Nordhausen

Nordhausen

Nordhausen is a town at the southern edge of the Harz Mountains, in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Nordhausen...

railway line.
Today there is a memorial and an information panel on the edge of the former camp grounds.

External links

- town plan of Osterhagen, showing local points of interest