Arensch
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Arensch is a local part of Cuxhaven, a town 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
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. In the proximity of Arensch between 1945 and 1964 various rocket attempts were accomplished. Thus the A4-Raketen of the Operation Backfire
Operation Backfire (WWII)
Operation Backfire was a military scientific operation during and after World War II, which was performed mainly by British staff. It was part of the Allies' scramble to loot as much German technology as they could....

 started in October 1945 of one in the Werner forest between Arensch and Sahlenburg
Sahlenburg
Sahlenburg is a borough of the city Cuxhaven near the mouth of the river Elbe in Lower Saxony, Germany. The Sahlenburg beach is popular with tourists. In addition to swimming in the sea when the tide permits, there are also walks into the Duhner and the Werner forests.The earliest artifacts...

 established starting place, from which still some shelter remainders and a soil hollow remained remaining. From 1957 to 1964 the Hermann-Oberth-Gesellschaft
Hermann-Oberth-Gesellschaft
The Hermann Oberth society is an association named after Hermann Oberth, the German astronautics pioneer, which develops and builds rockets and trains engineers in space technology....

 started; and some other experimenters in the proximity from Arensch of the building yard lain northwest and in the cotton wool before country numerous rockets with ceilings from up to 50 kilometers. The Seliger Forschungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH
Seliger Forschungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH
The Berthold Seliger Forschungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH was a company founded by German rocket technical designer Berthold Seliger in 1961. Seliger was a former assistant theoretician professor Dr. Eugen Sänger. The company developed and built prototypes of sounding rockets and launched...

accomplished further rocket attempts, with which ceilings were reached by up to over 100 kilometers, in the proximity of Berensch.
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