Directions to the Bergen-Belsen Memorial
It is possible to travel to the Bergen-Belsen Memorial either by private car or by public transport.
Travelling by car/coach
The Bergen-Belsen Memorial is signposted on the A7(E45) and A352 motorways and on the following routes. The closest motorway exits from the north are "Soltau-Süd", from the west and south "Mellendorf". The journey time to the memorial is approx. 25 minutes from the "Soltau-Süd" exit via Bergen and approx. 35 minutes from the "Mellendorf" exit via Winsen/Aller.
Please follow the signs, as experience has shown that navigation systems are not always reliable.
The car park at the memorial is free of charge.
Public transport
You can reach the Bergen-Belsen Memorial by taking the 110 bus line to the "Belsen, Gedenkstätte" stop.
The Bergen-Belsen Memorial can be reached by train via Celle railway station. From there you can take the bus either in the direction of Bergen (line 100) or in the direction of Winsen/Aller (line 900). You then have to change to line 110 either in Bergen or in Winsen/Aller.
Current bus timetables are available on the website cebus-celle.de.
The town of Bergen is also served by Flixbus on the Hamburg-Berlin/Berlin-Hamburg route. The bus stop is: Harburger Straße 20, 29303 Bergen (Celle), Germany.
Directions to other places of remembrance
There are other places of remembrance in the vicinity of the memorial that are linked to the history of Bergen-Belsen. Here are some tips on how to get there.
Directions to the learning centre M.B. 89
The learning site is located on Winsener Straße in the extreme south-eastern part of the Lower Saxony barracks, approx. 2.2 km from the Documentation Centre of the Bergen-Belsen Memorial in the direction of the town of Bergen. You can reach it during opening hours through a signposted gate in the barracks fence. There is a car park behind the gate.
Directions to the place of remembrance at the loading platform
The place of remembrance at the loading platform with its historic railway carriage is located about six kilometres from the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on the L298/Belsener Str. between the village of Belsen and the town of Bergen. The exit from the road to the platform is marked by a metal sculpture by Hanoverian artists Almut and Hans Jürgen Breuste. It is not possible to drive through to the memorial wagon. Buses and cars must be parked in front of the loading platform barrier. Access to the wagon is via a footpath.
Directions to the Bergen-Belsen Prisoners of War (PoW) cemetery
You can reach the cemetery on foot from the memorial site via an unpaved path in approx. 15 minutes.
By car: From the memorial in the direction of Bergen, after approx. two kilometres follow the signs for “Sowjetischer Kriegsgräberfriedhof” Soviet War Graves Cemetery) and turn left towards Meißendorf, Hörsten, Panzerringstraße, coming from the north turn right after the Lower Saxony barracks. After approx. one kilometre you will reach a stop sign in the village of Hörsten with the direction sign "Sowjetischer Kriegsgräberfriedhof". Turn left there. Follow the road and pass an armoured car wash. After a wide bend to the right, the road forks. Do not follow the Panzerringstraße to the right (which is closed during the week anyway), but take the road that turns half-left and after approx. 100 metres you will reach the car park of the Bergen-Belsen PoW cemetery.
Directions to the PoW cemetery Oerbke
From the centre of Bad Fallingbostel and in Oerbke, the access road to the cemetery is signposted.
Directions to the PoW cemetery Wietzendorf
From Wietzendorf town centre in the direction of Meinholz, the cemetery is signposted from the end of Wietzendorf. Please note that the approx. 300 metre long path from the car park to the cemetery is unpaved.