they now are. The district court was abolished. In April 1945 Jewish prisoners from Fürstengrube, a satellite camp of Auschwitz, were marched through Ahrensbök on the Fürstengrube death march. There is now a memorial here to the casualties. After World War II thousands of displaced persons and refugees were resettled here: the population rose from 5,063 in 1939 to 10,169 in 1950. During the local government reform of 1970 Ahrensbök together with the former Eutin district became part of the Ostholstein district. In 1972 the Grundschule and Hauptschule was re-established as a village group school (Dörfergemeinschaftsschule), when the separate village schools were closed. In 1982 the ZOB plant was built in the Lindenstrasse. Since March 1985 the local government administration of the Gemeinde has been accommodated in the new town hall (Rathaus) near the site of the former castle and the Amtshaus (demolished in 1983). In 1988 the railway line was closed. People connected with Ahrensbök Friedrich Bleek (1793 in Ahrensbök – 1859, in Bonn) was a German Biblical scholar. Nelly Mann (1898–1944), wife of Heinrich Mann Gerhard Steen (1923–1990), politician (SPD) See also Gnissau References General and cited sources Brather, Jürgen, 1990: Ahrensbök in Großherzoglich-Oldenburgischer Zeit 1867–1919. Ahrensbök. . Fick, Norbert, 1978: Ahrensbök in alten Ansichten. Zaltbommel: Verlag Europäische Bibliothek. . Citations External links Gemeinde Ahrensbök Gedenkstätte Ahrensbök (Memorial at Ahrensbök) Ostholstein