Altheimersburg help please.

[kerszk]

Hello
Does anyone know where Altheimersburg Weissenburg Gunzenhausen is in Germany?
Trying to find out where the D.P camps were.
Thanks for any help.
kerszk

[KGarrad]

Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen is a Kreis (district) in the west of Bavaria, Germany.

What's a D.P. camp?

[kerszk]

Thank you for your reply.
A DP camp was for displaced persons.

I haven't been able to find  the town of Altheimersburg, maybe it has gone or renamed.
kerszk

[KGarrad]

The name is spelled with an "e" - Altheimersberg, and all references seem to point to a forested area?
SW from Pappenheim?

Berg means hill!

E.G. The camp at Buchenwald was originally called Ettersberg, named after the hill of that name.

[kerszk]

Thank you very much.I think you are right as I also have details that have family living in Pappenheim just prior to them being in Altheimersberg.
I am trying to map out all the places the family were moved to during WWII but some of the towns have been renamed so it has been a bit slow going.
Thanks again for your help.
Kerszk

[KGarrad]

There looks to be a quarry in the vicinity?
Schachenschlag

Maybe that's a clue?

[kerszk]

Thanks
I appreciate your help.
Maybe the quarry was once a camp?

[KGarrad]

That was what I was thinking!

[kerszk]

Our family was certainly moved around Germany. They were in around 9 camps. Some at the end of the war waiting for immigration.