- Sandbostel
Infobox Ort in Deutschland
Wappen = Wappen Sandbostel.jpg
lat_deg = 53 |lat_min = 24 |lat_sec = 34
lon_deg = 09 |lon_min = 07 |lon_sec = 50
Lageplan =
Bundesland = Niedersachsen
Landkreis = Rotenburg (Wümme)
Samtgemeinde = Selsingen
Höhe = 8
Fläche = 31.54
Einwohner = 830
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 27446
Vorwahl = 04284, 04764
Kfz = ROW
Gemeindeschlüssel = 03 3 57 040
Gliederung = 4
Adresse-Verband = Bahnhofstraße 8
27446 Selsingen
Website = [http://www.selsingen.de/ www.selsingen.de]
Bürgermeister = Johann Gerken
Partei = WGOSandbostel is a municipality in
Lower Saxony ("Niedersachsen") in northwesternGermany , 43 km north-east of Bremen, 60 km west ofHamburg . Coordinates: 53° 25′ N, 9° 8′ E. Population: 816 (2005)In
World War II a notoriousPrisoner-of-war camp Stalag X-B was located here. A couple of the original camp buildings still exist in the commercial estate "Immenhaim". The cemetery in which several thousand prisoners are buried in mass graves is just outside the town. There is a memorial to them.External links
* [http://gedenkstaette-sandbostel.de Documentation and Memorial Site Sandbostel]
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