Friedland
Lower Saxony is one of the 16 lands of Germany. Clean air and manicured fields merge on the horizon.
Plains stretch from the North Sea to the Harz Mountains, bridges span rivers, and even rows of trees line the roads.
The village of Friedland is located on the southern outskirts of Lower Saxony in the municipality of the same name.
The former station building houses a museum that tells about the fates of families returning to their homeland after 1945.
A street called “The Way Home” leads to a distribution camp that has been providing assistance to people of German extraction for many years.
An old residential barrack has been preserved on the territory of the camp.
And the bell, which for many people has become a symbol of the Motherland.
A chapel is also part of the memorial complex of the museum, the ringing of which is heard daily by residents of the village.
At the top of the hill there is a monument to homecoming, the concrete segments of which are schematically depicted on the coat of arms of the municipality.
About an hour’s walk from the village there is a local natural landmark – a thousand-year-old oak tree.
Trunk girth is 7.32 m, height is 22.5 m (1990).
Impressive size and age!
Friedland. Lower Saxony. Germany.
