Osterheide Municipality-free Territory (Germany)

Gemeindefreies Gebiet Osterheide im Landkreis Heidekreis, Lower Saxony

Last modified: 2019-11-21 by klaus-michael schneider
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Osterheide municipality-free Territory

Osterheide is a territory under direct federal administration and is no municipality and de iure not part of the county. It had around 1200 inhabitants in 2018. It was used as a camp for POWs during WW2 and for refugees during the recent crisis in 2015. It is co-administrator of NATO's Bergen-Hohne Training Area. The seat of the territory is Oerbke village. The villages of Ostenholz and Wense are also part of the territory.
Source: I spotted the flag on 15 August 2019.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Nov 2019

Osterheide Flag

Osterheide has no proper flag, but flies the state ensign or federal service flag (Bundesdienstflagge) instead.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Nov 2019

Osterheide Badge

Osterheide has at least a proper badge, shaped like a shield, fimbriated grey, parted per fess; above light yellow, a Lower Saxonian farm house proper, flanked by two shrubs Vert, at both edges the federal eagle at dexter and the NATO emblem at sinister, in chief a centred inscription in black initials: "GEMEINDEFREIER BEZIRK" (1st line) "OSTERHEIDE" (2nd line); beneath green a dolmen grey.
Source: here
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 21 Nov 2019

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