Gedenkstätte Augustaschacht

The Augusta Shaft is a memorial to the labor education camp in GM-Ohrbeck.

The Augusta Ohrbeck shaft on the city boundary between Georgsmarienhütte and Hasbergen was built in 1860 and is part of the Hüggel mining area, where silver and iron ore, lime and coal were found or mined from the 12th century onwards.
In the last 15 months before the end of the Second World War, more than 2,000 young people and men from almost 20 nations were held here under cruel conditions. A permanent exhibition on forced labor in the Osnabrück region can be seen next to the facility.