Ladelund
Municipality
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Ladelund within Nordfriesland district
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Coordinates: 54°50′31″N 9°1′35″E / 54.84194°N 9.02639°E / 54.84194; 9.02639
Country	Germany
State	Schleswig-Holstein
District	Nordfriesland
Municipal assoc.	Südtondern
Government
• Mayor	Lutz Martensen
Area
• Total	24.09 km2 (9.30 sq mi)
Elevation	20 m (70 ft)
Population  (2021-12-31)[1]
• Total	1,410
• Density	59/km2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	25926
Dialling codes	04666
Vehicle registration	NF
Website	www.ladelund.de

Ladelund is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany.

History

From November 1, 1944 until December 16, 1944, a concentration camp was established near Ladelund.^[2] The prisoners were mostly Dutch, Polish, Soviet, French, Italian, Belgian and Czechoslovak.^[2] In the six weeks of being in production 301 people died through hard labour, starvation and infection diseases. Among the deaths were also 111 Puttenaren, men from the village Putten in the Netherlands, who got deported during the Putten raid because the action was undertaken as a reprisal for a Dutch resistance attack on a vehicle carrying personnel from the Wehrmacht. It was one of the worst raids in occupied Netherlands during the Second World War.^[3] Ladelund was a subcamp to the Neuengamme concentration camp.