Haren, Germany
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| Administration | |
| Country | Germany |
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| State | Lower Saxony |
| District | Emsland |
| Town subdivisions | 12 Ortsteile |
| Mayor | Markus Honnigfort (CDU) |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 208.76 km2 (80.60 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 9-15 m |
| Population | 22,858 (31 December 2006) |
| - Density | 109 /km2 (284 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | EL |
| Postal code | 49733 |
| Area code | 05932 |
| Website | www.haren.de |
Haren is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany in the district of Emsland.
[edit] Polish camp
On 19 May 1945, the Polish 1st Armoured Division, a unit attached to the British Army moved all of the thousand families of Haren out to surrounding communities. 3,500 Poles from Labor camps and prisoner-of-war camps camps in Northern Germany, moved into the town. Many of them had been members of the Polish Home Army, men and women, that had fought in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
General Stanislaw Maczek was the commander of the army unit. During the next months, a Polish town with a Polish mayor, a Polish school, a Polish fire brigade and a Polish rectory was established. The latter registered 289 weddings and 101 funerals. 479 Poles have birth certificates showing Maczków as place of birth. It was returned to the original inhabitants when the Polish army unit returned to England in June 1947, and the Polish inhabitants of the town were either repatriated to Poland or moved to Great Britain.
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Interestingly there is a company in India Called Haren Textiles Pvt Ltd. Its founder fell in love with Haren, Germany, that not only did he name his company after this city, but even named his eldest son Haren.
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