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A network of ditches and streams, with many branches, overlays the region. Streams include the
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Rostock Heath, not far from Wiethagens, and another was laid out on the coast near Hinrichshagen. Later air defence missiles with their associated barracks, bunkers and ammunition depots were added. In 1989, 2,600 hectares of the Rostock Heath were
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was built in
Oberhagen. Up to 1,500 prisoners, who walked to Oberhagen daily or were transported from Rostock by train, had to work here in the Heinkel factories. On 30 April 1945 the camp was cleared and the prisoners marched towards Warnemünde. After the war the facilities were dismantled and
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53% of the forested areas of the
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being used by the armed forces. After 1990 the military installations were removed and, in 2000, the firing range near
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runs through the heath in a north-south direction, parallel in places to the road joining the two villages.
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