Gedenkstätte Ahrensbök, Memorial site in Ahrensbök, Germany.

The Gedenkstätte Ahrensbök is a memorial site in Schleswig-Holstein located in a preserved building that holds documents and objects. The site presents information about persecution, forced labor, and daily life under Nazi rule in the region.

The building served as one of the earliest concentration camps in Schleswig-Holstein in 1933 and remains the only surviving structure of its kind in the state. The memorial documents the years from 1933 to 1945 and shows how conditions changed over this period.

The site takes its name from the small town where it is located, keeping alive a local history that was long forgotten by many. Visitors encounter personal stories of people from the region who lived and suffered during this era.

The memorial occupies the building of the 1933 camp itself, so the rooms visitors walk through are the historic site. A permanent exhibition is laid out on 33 panels covering the camp, the Fürstengrube death march and forced labour. Concrete and clay steles set up in 1999 mark the death march stations across Holstein.

In 1999, an international youth summer camp run with Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste made concrete and clay steles and placed them across Holstein to mark the stations of the Fürstengrube death march of April 1945, whose route passed through Ahrensbök.