Lübberstedt is a town located in the district of Osterholz

Osterholz

Osterholz is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Wesermarsch, Cuxhaven, Rotenburg and Verden, and by the city of Bremen.-History:...

 in the German

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...

 state of 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...

. It is located north of Osterholz-Scharmbeck

Osterholz-Scharmbeck

Osterholz-Scharmbeck is a town and the capital of the district of Osterholz, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Osterholz-Scharmbeck is situated in between the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven.-Neighbouring places:* Bremen * Delmenhorst...

. Together with the villages of Hambergen

Hambergen

Hambergen is a municipality in the district of Osterholz, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approx. 10 km north of Osterholz-Scharmbeck, and 25 km north of Bremen.It belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen...

, Axstedt

Axstedt

Axstedt is a municipality in the district of Osterholz, in Lower Saxony, Germany.It belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. In 1648 the Prince-Archbishopric was transformed into the Duchy of Bremen, which was first ruled in personal union by the Swedish and from 1715 on by the Hanoverian...

, Holste

Holste

Holste is a municipality in the district of Osterholz, in Lower Saxony, Germany.It belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. In 1648 the Prince-Archbishopric was transformed into the Duchy of Bremen, which was first ruled in personal union by the Swedish and from 1715 on by the Hanoverian...

 and Vollersode

Vollersode

Vollersode is a municipality in the district of Osterholz, in Lower Saxony, Germany.It belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. In 1648 the Prince-Archbishopric was transformed into the Duchy of Bremen, which was first ruled in personal union by the Swedish and from 1715 on by the Hanoverian...

, it forms the Samtgemeinde of Hambergen

Hambergen

Hambergen is a municipality in the district of Osterholz, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approx. 10 km north of Osterholz-Scharmbeck, and 25 km north of Bremen.It belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen...

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History

During the last year of the war (1944) a Neuengamme sub-camp was erected near the small town for Jewesses from Auschwitz-Birkenau. Several female guards (Aufseherin) staffed the camp and maltreated the prisoners who were starved, overworked and brutalized.

Traffic

Lübberstedt has a railway station

Lübberstedt railway station

Lübberstedt is the name of a railway station on the Bremen–Bremerhaven line, situated in the village of Lübberstedt in the district of Osterholz in Lower Saxony, one of the states of Germany.-Operational usage:...

 on the Bremerhaven

Bremerhaven

Bremerhaven is a city at the seaport of the free city-state of Bremen, a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. It forms an enclave in the state of Lower Saxony and is located at the mouth of the River Weser on its eastern bank, opposite the town of Nordenham...

 to Bremen

Bremen

The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...

 line that opened in 1862. The main road is the B 74 connecting Bremen

Bremen

The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...

 and Stade

Stade

Stade is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany and part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region . It is the seat of the district named after it...

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