Working together as equals

The X, made of corten steel and designed by Lena Sandfort, is a reminder of the prisoners' suffering. Wilhelm Bauhus A large X made of metal in the middle of the Teutoburg Forest represents the symbolic end of a project which lasted close on nine years. The large letter stands for vanished or forgotten places in the Münsterland - so-called "X places". One of these places is the old railway tunnel in Lengerich in the Tecklenburg region. During the Nazi period, a secret subcamp (code-named "partridge") of the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg was maintained here. Between 1944 and 1945 more than 200 male prisoners produced armaments here, working in underground pipelines around 700 metres long. 20 of the prisoners died, with at least 14 of them being murdered.