Hohne

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Hohne
Coat of arms	Location
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Celle
Municipal assoc.	Lachendorf
Mayor	Erhard Thölke (SPD)
Basic statistics
Area	36.47 km² (14.1 sq mi)
Elevation	48 m  (157 ft)
Population	1,797  (31/12/2006)
- Density	49 /km² (128 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	CE
Postal code	29362
Area code	05083
Website	www.lachendorf.de Coordinates: 52°34′00″N 10°22′00″E / 52.566667, 10.366667

Hohne is a little town in Germany, to the north of Braunschweig, about 25km north west of Celle.

Located north of Celle is the NATO training area "Schießplatz Bergen-Hohne". It stations Hohne Garrison, a large British military garrison (7th Armoured Brigade - The Desert Rats) which is part of the British Forces Germany. The base was considered of great strategic importance during the Cold War, but still houses a large number of British troops. Hohne also houses Gloucester Secondary School and Montgomery Primary School (both BFES schools for children of personnel stationed at the garrison and elsewhere in Germany). Not far from this base you find the village Belsen as well as the former concentration camp and now monument Bergen-Belsen.

[edit] References

• Hohne - A witness to infamy. Helen Mathews. Retrieved on April 17, 2005.
• About Gloucester School Hohne. GSHA. Retrieved on April 17, 2005.
• Montgomery Primary School. Service Children's Education. Retrieved on April 17, 2005.

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