What is "belsen"

Belsen can mean:

• Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
• Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp
• Belsen (Bergen), a small village near Bergen, about 25 km north of Celle in northern Germany. The camps were named after this village.
• Other places:
  • Belsen, a suburb of Mössingen in Landkreis Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany: see :de:Belsen (Mössingen)
  • Belsener Kapelle, one of the oldest Romanesque choir tower churches in Baden-Württemberg. It is in Belsen (Mössingen). See :de:Belsener Kapelle
  • Belsenberg, a hill 256 meters high near Künzelsau in Baden-Württemberg: see :de:Künzelsau

Belsen is a village within the German borough of Bergen in the northern part of Celle district on the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony. It lies about southwest of Bergen and has 331 inhabitants (as at: 31 December 2000). The Belsen concentration camp was named after it. Today Belsen is dominated by the British Army camp of Hohne (German: Lager Hohne) on the edge of Bergen-Hohne Training Area.