# Benefeld

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**Benefeld** is part of the municipality of [Walsrode](/source/Walsrode) in the [Lower Saxon](/source/Lower_Saxony) [Heidekreis district](/source/Heidekreis) in north [Germany](/source/Germany). Benefeld has a population of 2,232, although its parish covers just 2 km2 (as at 2008).

## Geography

### Location

Benefeld lies in the southwestern [Lüneburg Heath](/source/L%C3%BCneburg_Heath) within the natural region of the Fallingbostel Loam Plateaus (*Fallingbosteler Lehmplatten*), an area characterised by very narrow valleys which roughly corresponds to the cultural region of the *[Heidmark](/source/Heidmark)*. Together with the village of Bomlitz, 1 km to the east, Benefeld formed the heart of the former municipality of Bomlitz.

### Neighbouring parishes

Its neighbouring villages - clockwise from the north - are [Jarlingen](/source/Jarlingen), [Bommelsen](/source/Bommelsen), [Kroge](/source/Kroge_(Bomlitz)), [Bomlitz](/source/Bomlitz), [Uetzingen](/source/Uetzingen) and [Hünzingen](/source/H%C3%BCnzingen) (all part of the town of [Walsrode](/source/Walsrode)).

### Rivers

The parish of Benefeld lies on the two largest tributaries of the [River Böhme](/source/B%C3%B6hme_(river)), the [Bomlitz](/source/Bomlitz_(river)) to the east and the [Warnau](/source/Warnau_(river)) to the west.

## History

The village of Benefeld coalesced from several industrial settlements and workers' camps and was named after the farm of Benefeld in the Bomlitz valley (its name probably meant "field of bones"). These settlements were built after 1935, as part of the expansion of the Bomlitz explosives industry (forerunner of today's [Dow Wolff Cellulosics](/source/Dow_Wolff_Cellulosics)) on the plateau of Lohheide, favourable because of its height above the water table. The factory facilities of [Eibia & Co.](/source/Eibia_G.m.b.H._f%C3%BCr_chemische_Produkte), which were partly underground, have now been largely levelled and the site is once again a recreation area. Besides being home to Eibia's workers' accommodation, in the fall of 1944 for six weeks, Benefeld was also a [satellite](/source/KZ_Benefeld) of the [Bergen-Belsen concentration camp](/source/Bergen-Belsen_concentration_camp), with about 750 women.

Since its merger into its parent municipality in 1968 the hitherto independent parish of Benefeld has been one of eight others subordinate to the municipality of Bomlitz.

## Infrastructure

Benefeld has a community centre, where facilities are available for cultural and social clubs to meet and hold events.

### Transport

Benefeld lies away from regional communication routes. The [B 27 autobahn](/source/Bundesautobahn_27) runs past 9 km to the southwest, the [A 7](/source/Bundesautobahn_7) 8 km to the southeast. The [B 440 federal road](/source/Bundesstra%C3%9Fe_440) from [Dorfmark](/source/Dorfmark) via [Visselhövede](/source/Visselh%C3%B6vede) to [Rotenburg (Wümme)](/source/Rotenburg_(W%C3%BCmme)) runs to the northeast, about 3 km away.

## External links

- [The Municipality of Bomlitz (including overview of its parishes)](https://web.archive.org/web/20110621032334/http://www.bomlitz.de/Index/Ortsteile/Gemeinde/gemeinde.html) (in German)
- [Village of Benefeld](https://web.archive.org/web/20110713173715/http://www.bomlitz.de/Index/Ortsteile/Benefeld/benefeld.html) (in German)

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